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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.

The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling resistance. Drawing on plural social theoretic and philosophical literatures - and a multiplicity of empirical domains - they illuminate the multi-layered and intricate relationship of human rights and power. They highlight human rights'' incitement of new subjects and modes of political action, marked by an often unnoticed duality and indeterminacy. Epistemologically distancing themselves from purely deductive, theory-driven approaches, the contributors explore these linkages through historically specific rights struggles. This, in turn, substantiates the commitment to avoid reifying the ''Third World'' as merely the terrain of ''fieldwork'', proposing it, instead, as a legitimate and necessary site of theorising. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

This timely volume by Chinese and international scholars offers diverse perspectives on challenging questions around China's relationship with globalisation, Asia and the wider world. This book was originally published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.

The outbreak of Ebola virus disease that gripped Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone through much of 2014 and 2015 was undoubtedly a health emergency, yet it was also a global political event. This book examines the international politics of the Ebola outbreak in all of its dimensions, critically assessing the global response, examining what the outbreak can tell us about contemporary global health governance, and examining the inequalities and injustices that were laid bare. In doing so, the book shows how some of the concepts, debates and findings from the growing field of global health research in International Relations can help both in furthering understanding of the Ebola crisis and also in improving policy responses to future infectious disease outbreaks. This book was originally published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.

This book explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more resilient and the role of aid. It was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

The violent events in Kyrgyzstan in March 2005 gained the name `Tulip Revolution¿. This book brings together domestic and international perspectives to determine what happened ¿ and with what implications.This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

This book brings together contributions that revisit the dynamics and complexities of the history of war and peace in relation to the pursuit of progress. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Through a combination of theoretical works and a series of case studies, the volume highlights the cutting edge of international labour studies. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

The Green Economy in the Global South provides a critical, but balanced, overview of emerging green economy initiatives, and explains the opportunities they provide, but also the redistribution they entail and the kind of resistance they face. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Accompanying the growing awareness of the significance of democratic local governments as an integrated part of peacebuilding, this volume seeks to discuss, problematize and explain the concept of the 'local'. It tackles the 'local turn' of peacebuilding in a comprehensive and critical way. This book was first published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.

A fundamentally contested concept, food sovereignty (FS) has ΓÇô as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement and an analytical framework ΓÇô barged into global discourses, both political and academic, over the past two decades. This collection identifies a number of key questions regarding FS. What does (re)localisation mean? How does the notion of FS connect with similar and/or overlapping ideas historically? How does it address questions of both market and non-market forces in a dominantly capitalist world? How does FS deal with such differentiating social contradictions? How does the movement deal with larger issues of nation-state, where a largely urbanised world of non-food producing consumers harbours interests distinct from those of farmers? How does FS address the current trends of crop booms, as well as other alternatives that do not sit comfortably within the basic tenets of FS, such as corporate-captured fair trade? How does FS grapple with the land question and move beyond the narrow ΓÇÿrural/agriculturalΓÇÖ framework? Such questions call for a new era of research into FS, a movement and theme that in recent years has inspired and mobilised tens of thousands of activists and academics around the world: young and old, men and women, rural and urban. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

This book examines the extent to which a space has opened up in recent years for the so-called "rising powers" of the global South to offer an alternative to contemporary global economic and political governance through emergent forms of South-South cooperation. This book was originally published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.

There is a wealth of material that challenges and could help redefine the way that scholars view the post-war world order as more than a product of US hegemony. The chapters highlight various forms of agency by the Global South in human rights, security, disarmament, and especially in developing principles to manage the Global Commons.

This collection argues that areas of limited statehood - the lack of state capacities in most parts of the global South - provides opportunities for the governed to raise their voices and be listened to. It was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Third World Thematics.

The concept of hybridity highlights complex processes of interaction and transformation between different institutional and social forms, and normative systems. This book examines the value of hybridity as a concept, and its shortcomings. It was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Third World Thematics.

Through nine empirically grounded case studies from Latin America, Europe and Australia, this book critically assesses different forms of participation related to resource extraction activities. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Third World Quarterly.

This book explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more resilient and the role of aid. It was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.