Bøger i ThirdWorlds serien

As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism.

This volume brings together anthropologists, historians and political scientists from around the world to reflect on how to build up empirical and juridical statehood, how to forge a nation after colonial divide-and-rule, and how to position themselves in an international order not of their making.

This book compiles cutting-edge research on the challenging debates around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. It elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the European colonial project.

This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education.

Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded forms of aid that operate on the margins of the official development sector.

This book advances new research directions that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of development. Going beyond merely placing emotion and/or affect as the objects of study, it examines 'development' in fresh ways through analysis of its affective dimensions.

This volume brings together anthropologists, historians and political scientists from around the world to reflect on how to build up empirical and juridical statehood, how to forge a nation after colonial divide-and-rule, and how to position themselves in an international order not of their making.

This book provides case study, cross-case studies, practitioner reflection and conceptual material on the function of local government in the context of decentralisation in post-conflict countries, from both academics and policy-makers. The chapters were originally published in the online journal Third World Thematics.

As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism.

This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education.

This book is the first collection devoted to a regional exploration of issues of well-being and shows how visions, spaces, and cosmologies of well-being influence an analysis of Central Asia and informs an understanding of everyday life. It was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring how development financing and interventions are being shaped by a wider and more complex platform of actors than usually considered in the existing literature. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

This comprehensive volume contributes to debates which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. It was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Third World Thematics.

This book explores the role of the state in economic development. With a wide range of case studies of both successful and failed state-led development, the authors push the analysis of the developmental state beyond its original limitations and into the 21st century. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarte

Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century.

Analyzes to what extent the US policy of democratizing the Middle East with pre-emptive invasions was justified or effective.

The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities analyses violence in post-war cities from different perspectives and in different parts of the world, with a shared attention to space and how it affects violent dynamics.

Studying the State explores the results of governments in the Global South, particularly in Latin America, turning to the state as a vehicle for mobilizing people, resources and political change.

This book explores the complex endeavour of transitioning out of war, studying how it interrelate with other transformations such as changes in political regime (democratisation) and the economy (markets opening to globalisation). It was first published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

This book assembles original ethnographic research into urban spaces and lifestyles in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Russia. Taken together, the case studies address cities as gateways to 'new worlds', both local and global, discuss ambitions of states at taming urban landscapes, and illustrate current trends of economic, religious and other li

This book argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. It does so via a trans-disciplinary approach that draws on case studies from Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.