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New Turkey and the Far Right How Reactionary Nationalism Remade
a Country Selim Koru
Turkey is preparing for a future that is less dependent on its Western treaty allies with an alliance structure of its own This book focuses on the new relations being built with fellow revisionists like China and Russia, Turkey’s involvement in the wars in Syria and Ukraine, and Erdogan’s grand strategy The book de-exceptionalizes Turkish politics by showing how Turkey relates to the broader global trend of far-right nationalist movements It is based on interviews with politicians from across the country’s political spectrum in addition to the author’s intimate knowledge of the country’s far-right and Islamist traditions
Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of
Revolutions
Ozan Ozavci
Ozavci traces the emergence of the ‘Eastern Question’ by exploring the life and career of Robert Liston, British Ambassador at Istanbul over two embassies in 1790’s and 1810’s Using previously unexplored Ottoman, Russian, French, and British archival sources, including Liston’s private papers and his wife Henrietta’s Istanbul diaries, the book portrays Pera, the ambassadorial district of Istanbul, as a contact zone of interaction between European and Asian diplomats and Ottoman statesmen, and offers a micro-global, emotional and cultural history of diplomacy in the period
UK
HB 9780755638611 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755638628 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755638635 £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
The Kurdish Movement in Turkey
Nationalism, Social Movements and Recurring Cycles of Conflict
Elsa Tulin Sen, King’s College London, UK
Published in Association with the British Institute at Ankara
Both theoretically informed and drawing upon empirical research in the form of interviews with Kurdish and Turkish activists, non-activists and political representatives, this book provides a new perspective on the contemporary Kurdish movement in the context of Alan Touraine’s concept of a total social movement . Describing the oscillation between nationalist and social movement paradigms, the book argues that the recent decline of the latter is due to the resumption of military action by the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party after 2015
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 200 pages
HB 9780755644087 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755644063 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755644070 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Contemporary Turkey • I B Tauris
Turkism in Eurasia
Identity, Ideology and Politics
Galina M. Yemelianova, SOAS, University of London, UK
Turkey’s role in the former-Soviet Caucasian and Central Asian Turkic world is growing, with increasing political, cultural and economic initiatives in these territories and the rise of local Turkist parties and initiatives But what are the historical origins of Turkism, and what might the future hold for these culturally Turkic, but distinct polities? Based on both primary and secondary sources in Russian, Turkish (modern and Ottoman), English and French, this book uses semi-structured interviews with relevant policy-makers and academics ethnographic and archival research to provide the first historybased integrated study of the ideational, ideological, political and geopolitical role of Turkism in Eurasia
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 248 pages
HB 9780755650309 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755650323 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755650316 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
Missionaries in Persia
Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Global Catholicism
Christian Windler, University of Bern, Switzerland
This book examines the social roles adopted by Catholic missionaries in the multicultural metropolis of Safavid Isfahan Attracted by the hope of converting the Shah, the European missionaries were quickly forced to settle for acting as diplomatic agents for Catholic rulers, hosts to Protestant merchants and healers of Armenians and Muslims Through such activities the missionaries gained social acceptance locally, as well as economic independence from Rome Using these interactions as a case study, the book shows how early modern Catholicism was confronted and shaped in multiple ways by experiences in Iran and other Asian empires
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 408 pages
PB 9780755649402 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755649365
ePub 9780755649389 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9780755649372 • £81 00 / $81 00
I B Tauris
World English
Two Months on the Nile Thomas Sandwith’s Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Journey
Stephen Boys Smith
British Consul with a long-standing interest in archaeology Thomas Sandwith’s account of his two months travelling in Egypt provides a valuable new primary source on a dynamic period in Egyptian history In January 1893 he began a diary in which he recorded his journey on the Nile aboard a dahabiya Possessing a keen interest in antiquities and experience in acquiring them during his consular career, he recounts visiting newly discovered archaeological sites and meetings with Egyptologists, providing a unique snapshot of the ‘golden age’ of Egyptology His astute descriptions of his journey from Cairo to Aswan and back give a vivid new perspective on the growth of European tourism in British-occupied Egypt and early Egyptian industry
UK
HB
ePub
The Banquet of the Brethren
An Ismaili Guide to Spiritual Hermeneutics: Part 2 An English translation of Nasir-i Khusraw’s Khwan al-ikhwan
Edited by Rahim Gholami, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
Khwan al-ikhwan (The Banquet of the Brethren) was written by Ismaili missionary and poet, Nasir-i Khusraw (d. after 462). A work of philosophical theology it discovers divine unicity (tawhid), the authority of the Prophet Muhammad, his legatee, 'Ali b Abi Talib, and his descendants. This English translation is the first translation in any language outside the Persian milieu It also includes an extensive introduction to make the work of Nasir-i Khusraw further available to a wider audience and opens up for the reader the intellectual world of the 5th century in all its sophistication and variety
Series: Ismaili Texts and Translations • I B Tauris
World English
Rethinking Islamic Politics in Tunisia A Gramscian Analysis
Fabio Merone & Francesco Cavatorta, Laval University, Canada
Written by two renowned experts of political Islam, this book uses the philosophy of Gramsci to provide a new perspective on Islamism and Salafism in Tunisia. In particular, the book explains how the ideological/theological side of Islamic activism realizes itself into practical political action In doing so, it argues that Islamists and Salafists can be described as ‘post-Islamist’ in the same way communist parties became ‘post-communist’ and ‘post-ideological’, where ideology has the same meaning as revolutionary politics The theoretical approach and critical outlook developed here provides an innovative framework to understand Islamist politics in other contexts
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages
HB 9780755656387 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755656417 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755656400 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Critical Studies on Islamism Series • I B Tauris
Genealogical History in the Persianate World
Edited by Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey, USA & Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
While genealogical sources have received attention in scholarship on the Arab world, it remains mostly unstudied in Persianate societies The chapters in this book offer reflections on theoretical and methodological issues concerning the study of genealogical documentation, combined with case studies based on previously unpublished, unstudied source materials The topics explored span the full breadth of the Persianate world, from Anatolia to the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia to the Gujarat region of India, utilizing sources dating from the fourteenth to the twentieth century The book demonstrates the value of genealogical documentation as historical sources for scholars and students of Islamic history and the Persianate ecumene and beyond
UK
HB
Fatimid Cosmopolitanism
History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion
Edited by Gregory Bilotto, Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK & Shainool Jiwa, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK
The crucial role and contributions of the Fatimids have often been overshadowed in academic research This open access book addresses numerous Fatimid topics across art, statecraft and religion to shed light on Fatimid rule and its broad tolerance, intercultural dialogue, trading and travel Bringing together a diverse range of Fatimid specialists across the 22 chapters, the book is a comprehensive contribution to Fatimid studies that updates and extends the existing scholarship
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Islamic Publications Ltd.
UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 368 pages • 80 b&w images
Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Writings
A Textual History of Sex and Gender
Maznah Mohamad, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
There are few studies on the relationship between gender and the history of Islam in Southeast Asia This book argues that in the nineteenth century - before the formalisation of sharia laws - Islam was heavily influence by elements of enchantment and mysticism, and that this was mirrored in the portrayal and experience of gender relations and sexuality The analysis is based on handwritten manuscripts and published books written in the Malay language This includes sex manuals, advice literature and prescriptions, and the first Malay language dictionaries. The author shows how discursive traditions around gender and sexuality in Islam have changed
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages
HB 9780755648511 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755648535 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755648528 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Gender and Islam • I B Tauris
Balkan Muslims and the Middle East
The Influence of the Arab World on the Islamic Revival
The current revival of Islam among Balkan Muslims is due to a long history of contact with the Arab World This book is the first to examine the evolving relationship between the Balkans and the Middle East covering three phases: under communism, during its violent collapse, and during its uneasy post-war and postYugoslav independence. Harun Karcic identifies how official links with the Middle East sparked an Islamic revival In particular, the book shows how Yugoslavia used its Muslim population as ‘gate openers’ in the Arab world and to lobby for support when war broke out in 1992
UK
Political
Resilience
Islam at the Crossroads
and Adaptation in the Contemporary Middle East
Edited by Ayfer Erdogan Safak & Shaimaa Magued, University of Cairo, Egypt
This book explores Islamist groups' means of adaptation and resilience in the face of authoritarian political exclusion, unpacking Islamists’ sociopolitical persistence and ideological sustainability Individual chapters explore similarities and divergences among Islamist groups/ parties in terms of ideological affiliations, means of survival and political participation strategies, drawing on comparative cases from across the MENA region
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9780755652396 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755652402 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755652419 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
Sufism and Philosophy in the Contemporary Shia Seminary
Scholars and
Mystics
SeyedAmirHossein Asghari, Baylor University, USA
What is the place of Sufi and philosophical thought in Shi’ism today? This book examines two seminal schools within the contemporary Shia seminary to answer this ongoing question. While the Sufi School of Najaf's tries to harmonize philosophy, Sufism and Shia theology, the Maktab-i Tafkik (School of Separation) is in staunch opposition to such syntheses, advocating for a strict adherence to what it perceives as the pure, unadulterated teachings of Shia Islam The book traces the contrasting intellectual trajectories of these schools of thought from the mid-19th century to the present day It brings to the fore the ideological battles within the Shia seminary
ePub
I B Tauris
Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism
The Contribution of al-Sulami
Jason Welle
Al-Sulami (d. 1021) was an influential early Sufi master whose works espoused the virtues of companionship as a way for believers to experience God’s guidance and cultivate religious virtues This book provides a historical reconstruction of sufi companionship in eleventh-century Khorasan, arguing that al-Sulami’s concept of suhba (companisonship) envisioned the transformation of society as whole, not just the masterdisciple relationship Bringing debates in contemporary virtue ethics on the nature of friendship and friendship’s role in the acquisition of virtue to bear on al-Sulami’s spiritual method, the book offers an original analysis of the latter’s thought that will be of interest to scholars of early Islam, Sufism as well as moral theologians interested in virtue ethics and character
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages
PB 9780755652310 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755652273
ePub 9780755652297 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755652280 £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
The Renaissance of Islam
History, Culture and Society in the 10th Century Muslim World
Adam Mez
In this important study, Adam Mez draws upon a vast range of sources to produce a detailed account of all aspects of Islamic culture and society in the tenth century - finance, religion, geography, industry and trade, law, morals, navigation, etc The result is a lucid and engaging work that even today remains a key resource for researchers and students alike The original edition is now very rare This new edition, introduced by Hugh Kennedy, one of the leading scholars of the period, makes the work available once again and includes a bibliography and index specially prepared for this edition
UK July 2025 US July 2025 544 pages
PB 9780755635597 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781784538910
ePub 9781838603588 • £90 00 / $122 84
ePdf 9781838603571 • £90 00 / $90 00
I B Tauris
Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life
New Frontiers in Science and Religion
Edited by Jörg Matthias Determann, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar & Shoaib Ahmed Malik, Zayed University, UAE
Over the last 30 years, humanity has discovered thousands of planets outside of our solar system The discovery of extraterrestrial life could be imminent This book explains how such a discovery might impact Islamic theology It is the foundational reference on the subject, comprising contributions from Muslim theologians, scholars of comparative religion and philosophers, to historians, social scientists and natural scientists Given the accelerating advances in exoplanet research and astrobiology, the book is a necessary and timely resource at the frontier of science and Islamic thought
UK August 2025 US August 2025 256 pages
PB 9780755650927 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755650880
ePub 9780755650903 • £85 50 / $116 09
ePdf 9780755650897 • £85 50 / $85 50
I B Tauris
Palestinians in Israel after the Arab Spring
The Political Impact of Regional Protest and Fragmentation
Yusri Hazran Khaizran & Muhammad Khalaily
This book demonstrates why the Arab Spring, and especially events in Syria, provoked such deep fragmentation for Palestinians in Israel. It is based on the findings of governmental and public surveys It shows that Arab-Palestinian citizens were divided on the idea of integration with Israeli politics following the Arab Spring, while the younger generations wanted to search for alternatives to replace the existing political frameworks completely The book covers the new policies adopted by the central government in Israel that have been formed since 2011 to strengthen civic discourse amongst Arab citizens
UK
HB
Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan
Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement
Afaf Jabiri, University of East London, UK
In this book Afaf Jabiri examines the experiences of Palestinian women from Syria displaced to Jordan and argues for a feminist analysis of settler-colonialism, particularly in the case of second displacement. Based on four years of field research in camps in Jordan - including interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs in Jordan - the book highlights how local women’s groups and frontline workers attempt to fill service gaps. The book reveals how these groups have challenged state politics, the selectivity of aid, and the politics of the gendered development approach in humanitarian settings
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages
PB 9780755644841 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755644803
ePub 9780755644827 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755644810 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
Ethical Living through Stories Encounters with Adab
Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London, UK
In this book, Wen-chin Ouyang shows how our experience of adab stories has the power to transform both our personal relationships and society She draws on classic works from the famous Arabic epic Thousand and One Nights and compares tales from the canonical Chinese novel Three Kingdoms The book demonstrates how these stories tell about ourselves allowing us to define, test and refine our ethics of living. More than this, they have the power to help us experience a profound contemplation of our lives on earth, linking us to our shared humanity and showing us how to live meaningfully
UK February 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages • 30 colour images
PB 9780755657490 • £8 99 / $11 95
ePub 9780755657506 • £8 09 / $12 14
ePdf 9780755657513 • £8 09 / $8 09
Series: World of Islam • I B Tauris
World English
Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States
Normalizing Dispossession and Elimination in Palestine
Emile Badarin
Using Palestine as a case study, this book shows how recognition politics operate to legitimize long-standing colonial power structures This book forwards a new, theoretically ground-breaking perspective to show that in colonial contexts, settlers use recognition to legitimize and normalize the dispossession and elimination of indigenous people The book critically examines the Euromodern categories of race, racism and racial hierarchies and the interplay between colonialism, racism and Zionism Central to this analysis is how anti-Zionism became equated with anti-Semitism, which has led to the advancement of both settlercolonialism in Palestine and Israel’s recognition on the international stage
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages
HB 9780755656226 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755656257 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755656240 £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Unsettling Colonialism in our Times I B Tauris
Female Voices and Egyptian Independence
Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction
Rania M. Mahmoud
This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in the aftermath of the 1881-82 Urabi Revolution and the 1919 Revolution Reading novels by Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz, Bahaa Taher and Jon Wilcox against the grain, the study recovers female voices that are multiply marginalized, due to their gender and/or ethnicity, whether by colonial imperial powers, the nation, their immediate regional community or, finally, by the works under discussion themselves
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages
PB 9780755651009 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755651047
ePub 9780755651023 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755651030 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK & Zahera Harb
Reframing Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Dina Matar, SOAS,
University of London, UK
This book problematizes the relationship between politics and communication in the Middle East and North Africa region, paying attention to the diversity of communicative forms and political practices outside formal institutions and structures while remaining conscious of the power dynamics within institutional practices Examining political communication in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Syria, the Gulf, Turkey and Iran, the book’s chapters challenge Western-centric theories and methodologies within the broad field of political communication that continue to focus on democracy or its absence and are primarily concerned with elites, focusing on the marginal or the peripheral, the informal, and the grassroots
UK
The Syrian Conflict in the News Coverage of the War and the Crisis of US Journalism
Gabriel Huland
The Syrian Conflict in the News analyses the coverage of the Syrian conflict in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, focusing on how the three newspapers framed six key events in Syria from March 2011 to April 2018, including the Ghouta chemical attack, the Russian intervention in Syria and US-led airstrikes Gabriel Huland argues the overreliance on elite narratives resulted in the underrepresentation of local voices and other players who were in a more advantaged position to devise solutions to the conflict and crisis currently pervading US journalism.
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages
PB 9780755650149 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755650118
ePub 9780755650132 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755650125 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
I B Tauris
Sectarianism,
DeSectarianization and Regional Politics in the Middle East
Protest and Proxies across States and Borders
Edited by Samira Nasirzadeh, Elias Ghazal, Ana Maria Kumarasamy, Eyad Alrefai & Simon Mabon, all of University of Lancaster, UK
This volume provides a comparative account of sectarianism looking at Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon It examines the ways in which sect-based difference shapes regional politics and vice versa The book aims to provide a holistic understanding of the role of sectarian identities in the contemporary Middle East and explain why this has serious implications for the ordering of life across the region
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages
PB 9780755639212 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755639175
ePub 9780755639199 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755639182 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
Spoils of War in the Arab East
Reconditioning Society and Polity in Conflict
Edited by Aziz Al-Azmeh, Harout Akdedian, Central European University & Haian Dukhan
This book provides a critical analysis of current post-conflict frameworks for Syria and Iraq. Drawing on empirical research, the book shows that reconciliation and reconstruction scenarios need to be considered alongside the realities on the ground It argues that Iraq and Syria exist in a condition of ‘conflict transformation’ rather than of ‘conflict termination’, because the extreme changes that accompanied these countries into war continue long after the conflicts end.
UK August 2025 US August 2025 286 pages
PB 9780755649129 £29 99 / $40 95
Previously published in HB 9780755649082
ePub 9780755649105 • £85 50 / $116 09
ePdf 9780755649099 • £85 50 / $85 50
I B Tauris
Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement
Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK
Mustafa Kemal Topal, Roskilde University, Denmark
Based on fieldwork undertaken in Iraq, Syria and Europe - including in-depth interviews and participant observation –this book examines Kurdish women fighters’ motivations to join The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) The book is the largest ethnographic study on this Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement to date It discusses Kurdish women’s personal life stories and views on gender, patriarchy, and ethnic minority experiences. It reveals for the first time that Kurdish women fighters join the PKK to improve conditions for themselves but also to improve conditions for women across the entire region
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages
PB 9780755648405 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755648368
ePub 9780755648382 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755648375 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Kurdish Studies I B Tauris
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Legacies of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution
Empire and Embattled Statehood
Etana H. Dinka, James Madison University, USA
Despite its massive significance for the Horn of Africa and for other contemporary global revolutions, the histories of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution are surprisingly antiquated and oversimplified. Now, fifty years after the revolution, Etana H Dinka brings together a who’swho of modern Ethiopian studies in order to offer this long-overdue analysis of the revolution and its legacies. This five-part collection offers new insights not only into the revolution itself, but also into issues such as the Red Terror, the EPRDF revolution of 1991, and Abiy Ahmed’s repositioning of Ethiopia after 2018
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350434974 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350434981 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350434998 £76 50 / $76 50 Zed Books
Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa
Aloysius Ngefac
Language, Literature, and Education for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Edited by Aloysius Ngefac, Divine Che Neba & Michael T. Ndemanu
This edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary, all-African team of scholars to investigate the concept of transformative development through decolonial pedagogies, literatures, and approaches to indigenous African languages. Contributors explore the role of AI technologies such as ChatGPT for decolonial research and teaching; the transformative potential of African drama and literature, written and oral; the importance of values-based civic education; the importance of decolonizing continuous professional development for teachers; and the role of culturally sensitive curriculum around EFL
UK September 2025 US September 2025 208 pages
HB 9781350509528 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350509559 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf
9781350509542 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa • Zed Books
African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Edited by Aloysius Ngefac, Paul Zang Zang, Thorsten Brato & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, University of Regensburg, Germany
This edited volume brings together a team of African linguists to explore how English and its indigenized varieties, alongside other ex-colonial languages and their indigenized varieties, interact with the holistic transformation of the continent. Contributors explore linguistic evolution and developments towards endonormativity; the indiginization of medical terminology in HIV/AIDS consultations; the interactions of Romance languages with local English varieties; and resonances between decolonizing multilingualisms in Singapore and multilingualisms in Africa
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 176 pages
HB 9781350510074 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350510104 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350510098 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa • Zed Books
Social Sciences and Cultural Studies for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Edited by Alain Cyr Pangop Kameni, David Simo, Esaïe Djomo, Godfrey Tangwa & Aloysius Ngefac
This edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary, primarily African team of social scientists and cultural experts to investigate the concept of transformative development. Contributors explore new African development frameworks in the context of Covid-19, escalating global wars, and global warming; the ongoing impact of collective memory and trauma on development progress, interactions between Indigenous knowledge and Western innovations; and the potential of arts, handicrafts, and even postmodern Afropop
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 176 pages
HB 9781350513693 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350513716 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350513709 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa • Zed Books
African Studies Now Critical Approaches to Racialization and Identity Politics in Francophone Contexts
Edited by Eric Essono Tsimi, City University of New York, USA, Andrea Behrends, University of Bayreuth, Germany & Sabelo Ndlovu-Gathseni, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Curated by the up-and-coming scholar Eric Tsimi in collaboration with the distinguished anthropologist Andrea Behrends and field-leading decolonial theorist Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, this collection explores methods and approaches being developed across the humanities and social sciences for decolonizing knowledge, facilitating knowledge transfer, and addressing perceived gaps between theory and practical emergencies
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages
HB 9781350466067 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350466074 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350466081 £76 50 / $76 50 Zed Books
The End of Supplication
Yannick Marshall, Knox College, USA
Yannick Marshall contends that Black freedom struggles are anti-colonial movements against anti-Blackness and the permutations of slavery, and as such they are ill-served by a dominant Civil Rights discourse that escapes neither the paternalism of white abolitionism nor the caricatures of minstrelsy. In our contemporary context of openly white-supremacist politics, the figure of the "supplicant negro" must be definitively destroyed in order to make way for more effective resistance to anti-Black racism
Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK
Digital Surveillance in Africa Power, Agency, and Rights
Edited by Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK & Admire Mare, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
In this open-access third volume of Bloomsbury’s Digital Africa series, a broad range of African and European scholars and practitioners map the development, procurement and (mis)use of the ever-expanding suite of digital surveillance and policing technologies across the continent Drawing on the empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated research of the African Digital Rights Network, this book examines how public and private actors in Africa use spyware, mobile phone extraction, biometric and face recognition systems, and other technologies for smart-city and other social, and social-control, applications
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This open access book examines the often overlooked entanglements and affinities between emerging forms of formal and informal finance and welfare, with longer-running religious structures and concerns
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
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Climate Shocks and Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan
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Daniel Akech Thiong, Independent Scholar Focussing on the migrations of the Dinka people of South Sudan's Jonglei state into the Equatoria region, Daniel Akech Thiong shows that the relations between climate disaster, pastoralist migration, and intercommunal conflict reach farther, both in time and space, than we realize
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Internet Shutdowns in Africa Technology, Rights and Power
Edited by Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK & Felicia Anthonio, Access Now
Authored entirely by African researchers, this open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet shutdowns as tools to close civic space, suppress opposition, and maintain power, all of which produces actionable recommendations
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Following officers from the classroom to the station and the street, Michel Thill offers five readable, narrative-driven chapters, all rich with historical detail and thick description, that show how the police force in the DRC struggles to coordinate practice with training, coercion with persuasion and reconciliation, and the need to make ends meet with the duty to serve the public His findings offer new ways of understanding relations between police reform and the state anywhere in the world, all while providing practical guidance for practitioners and policymakers
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Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda
Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control
Edited by Moses Khisa, North Carolina State University, USA
Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda analyses two interrelated outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist rule or Musevenism, and the regime resilience that has made Museveni one of Africa's current-longest surviving rulers How has this feat been possible, and what has been the trajectory of Museveni’s increasingly autocratic rule?
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Leadership in Independent Africa, Six Decades On
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Kofi Anani, Anani – Afele (A&A) Network
In this open access book, Kofi Anani offers an in-depth study of the Blended Representation Principle (BRP), which stipulates that power be shared between leaders selected on the basis of Western-democratic ideals and leaders chosen on the basis of traditional African norms and conventions Anani shows how incorporating this principle into African leadership and governance thinking can encourage more voluntary public participation in politics, guarantee transparency and accountability in decision-making, particularly when it comes to the use of public resources, and ultimately encourage more public confidence in leaders.
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UK September 2025 US September 2025 256 pages
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Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction
Memories in Negotiation, Contradiction, and Translation
Meng Xia, University of New South Wales, Australia
Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary approaches the book casts new light on texts by writers from the Cultural Revolution generation, including Ken Liu, Yiyun Li and Geling Yan among others Meng Xia demonstrates how these writers construct collective identity in the contexts of transnational experiences of migration and historical trauma
The Impact of International Financial Institutions in Pakistan Development, Governance and the Rule of Law
Naveed Ahmed, Washington University, St Louis, USA
In this book, Naveed Ahmed examines the impact of International Financial Institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF on the rule of law, good governance and development in Pakistan The book explores how these institutions have been hindered in achieving social justice as a result of being caught between weak local governance structures and the competing interests of other powers, including Europe and the USA Ahmed goes on to demonstrate how the ethos and instruments of rule of law and good governance can counter the internal factors that have aggravated conditions of poverty and social injustice in Pakistan
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Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia
Edited by Celia Lam, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China & Jackie Raphael-Luu, University of the Arts, London, UK
From Bollywood to K-Pop, from Crazy Rich Asians to YouTube stars and Boys’ Love media, this book brings together leading scholars to explore “bromance” in celebrity culture across Asia Celebrity Bromance and Comradery in Asia demonstrates how celebrity bromances are used as global promotional tools in different national and transnational contexts, including China, Thailand, India and beyond Across chapters written by leading international scholars, the book demonstrates how a “comradery capital” develops as Asian bromances become not just a promotional tool but commodities in their own right in contemporary celebrity culture
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China in Iraq after the War From Underdog to Unassailable
Shirzad Azad
In this in-depth and wide-ranging study, Shirzad Azad explores the changing relationship between post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and the People’s Republic of China China in Iraq After the War charts the deepening relationship between the two countries since the 2003 American-led invasion, that has seen China become the biggest international stakeholder in Iraq The book uncovers the scope of China’s and Iraq’s collaboration in a number of sectors, including military, economic, technological and cultural and considers the motivating forces behind this unlikely relationship
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