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  • Why Mugabe Won

    The 2013 Elections in Zimbabwe and their Aftermath

    by Stephen Chan, Julia Gallagher ...
    The 2013 general elections in Zimbabwe were widely expected to mark a shift in the nation's political system, and a greater role for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. However, the results, surprisingly, were overwhelmingly in favour of long-time President Robert Mugabe, who swept the presidential, parliamentary and senatorial polls under ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Britain and Africa Under Blair

    In pursuit of the good state

    by Julia Gallagher ...
    Africa was a key focus of Britain’s foreign policy under Tony Blair. Military intervention in Sierra Leone, increases in aid and debt relief, and grand initiatives such as the Commission for Africa established the continent as a place in which Britain could ‘do good’.Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state critically explores Britain’s fascination with Africa. It argues that, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Zimbabwe's International Relations

    Fantasy, Reality and the Making of the State

    by Julia Gallagher ...
    Zimbabwe is a state that has undergone significant ruptures in its domestic and international politics in recent years. This book explores how Zimbabwean citizens have, under difficult circumstances, reconstructed ideas of their state by imagining the wider world. Unlike other work on international relations, which tends to focus on the state level, this book is based on the accounts of ordinary ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Images of Africa

    Creation, negotiation and subversion

    Edited by Julia Gallagher ...
    Images of Africa challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent – in presidents’ offices and party HQs, in newsrooms and rural authorities, in rebel militia bases and in artists’ and writers’ studies.Its ten ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Architecture and Politics in Africa

    Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings

    by Joanne Tomkinson, Dr Daniel Mulugeta, Julia Gallagher, Dawit Yekoyesew, Emmanuel K. Ofori-Sarpong, Innocent Batsani Ncube, Irene Appeaning Addo, Marie Gibert0, Yusuf Patel1, Tony Yeboah2, Dr Laura Routley3, Kuukuwa Manful4 ...
    Series Book 1 - Making & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa
    Honourable Mention - 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa. Buildings shape politics in the ways they define communities, enable economic activity, reflect political ideas, and impact state-society ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Compassion

    Immigration and Asylum Policy

    by Ala Sirriyeh ...
    Series series Global Migration and Social Change
    Whether addressing questions of loss, (be)longing, fears of an immigration ‘invasion’ or perceived injustices in immigration policies, immigration debates are infused with strong emotions.Emotion is often presented as a factor that complicates and hinders rational discussion. This book explores how emotion is, in fact, central to understanding how and why we have the immigration policies we do, ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Myth of Meritocracy

    Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

    by James Bloodworth ...
    The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly locked out of the top professions by those from affluent backgrounds.Hitherto, Labour and ... Read more

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  • The New Apartheid

    by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh ...
    South Africa’s story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and distressing similarities persist. Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh explores the edifice of systemic racial oppression — the new apartheid — that continues to thrive, despite or even because of our democratic system. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • European Union Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Anthony Arnull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The European Union is rarely out of the news and, as it deals with the consequences of the Brexit vote and struggles to emerge from the eurozone crisis, it faces difficult questions about its future. In this debate, the law has a central role to play, whether the issue be the governance of the eurozone, the internal market, 'clawing back powers from Europe' or reducing so-called 'Brussels red tape ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 3 The Opportunist

    John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction

    by Guy Rundle ...
    Series Book 3 - Quarterly Essay
    In the third Quarterly Essay, Guy Rundle comes to grips with John Howard, the prime minister who, on the eve of an election, seems to have turned round his political fortunes by spurning refugees and writing blank cheques for America's War on Terror.This is a brilliant account of John Howard's dominant ideas, his concerted 'dreaming' with its emphasis on unity and national identity that reveals ... Read more

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  • Travelling While Black

    Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move

    by Nanjala Nyabola ...
    What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

    Edited by Gail Lewis ...
    Series series Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity
    This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of 'the family', it traces some of the crucial historical roots and desires that fed the development of social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education, the family, unemployment and nationhood. By aiming to discover the link between past and present, it ... Read more

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