Publications in 2013

The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance|

Kaldor, Mary, and Joseph E Stiglitz (eds),
Columbia University Press (2013).

"The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising from the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor| begin with an expansive, balanced analysis of the global landscape and the factors contributing to the growth of insecurity."

Non-Governmental Public Action and Social Justice|

Howell, Jude (ed),
Palgrave Macmillan (2013).

The Arab Spring put non-governmental public action centre-stage in the drive for greater social justice. Governments, politicians and international institutions increasingly court non-governmental public actors, engaging them in policy dialogue, inviting them to participate in the delivery of social services, and looking to them to re-invigorate democratic politics. This unique collection explores the different organizational forms, strategies and tactics that activists adopt to pursue social justice goals and analyses how histories of resistance impinge on contemporary activism in both positive and negative ways.

International Inequality and the Global Crisis - Managing Markets for Sustainable Growth|

Teddy Brett| writes about the global economic crisis. This article will be featured as part of a series in our blog|.

The Borderlands of South Sudan: Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives|

Schomerus, Mareike, Christopher Vaughan, and Lotje De Vries (eds),
Palgrave Macmillan (2013).

"Current international discourse on the new state of South Sudan seems fixated on the 'state construction.' This book aims to broaden the debate by examining the character of regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands in both contemporary and historical perspective. The contributions gathered here show that emerging border governance practices challenge the bounded categorization of "state" and "non-state", especially in the complex interactions between state, military, and business actors and power structures. It thus provides a timely and sophisticated contribution to the literature on African borderlands, examining a new state in creation at its borders, and providing an anthropologically and historically informed view of a rapidly evolving situation.

Land politics in Africa: constituting authority over territory, property and persons (Introduction)|

Boone, Catherine, and Christian Lund.
Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 83 (1), 1-13.

Land regimes and the structure of politics: patterns of land-related conflict|

Boone, Catherine.
Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute, 83 (1), 188-203.

'Innovation systems and policy for development in a changing world'|, by Carlota Perez, in The Future of Innovation Studies.

Andersen, E.S., J. Fagerberg and B. Martin (eds.),
Oxford University Press (2013).

Innovation is increasingly recognized as a vitally important phenomenon. Both businesses and politicians care about it because of its presumed social and economic impact. However, innovation must be understood beyond desirability; what is required is systematic and reliable knowledge about how best to influence innovation and to exploit its effects to the full.

Gaining such knowledge is the aim of the field of innovation studies. This is what this book sets out to explore. Written by a number of central contributors to the field, it critically examines the current state of innovation studies and identifies issues that merit greater attention.

'Informality, religious conflict, and governance in northern Nigeria: economic inclusion in divided societies'|

Meagher, Kate
African Studies Review, 56 (3). 209-234.

This article examines processes of economic inclusion in divided societies, with a focus on both religious and formal-informal divides. Drawing on recent fieldwork in the northern Nigerian cities of Kano and Kaduna, the article challenges the assumption that identity-based informal organization intensifies violent social divisions, and that taxation and linkages with the state foster more stable and inclusive governance. A range of informal sector activities provides insights into escalating religious conflict and uneven patterns of formal inclusion in interreligious relations. Attention is focused on the relative role of informal institutions and formal interventions such as taxation in diffusing or exacerbating conflict at the grassroots level.

'Science'|, by Tim Forsyth, in Critical Environmental Politics|.

Death, Carl (ed.) 
Routledge, London.

"The aim of this book is to review central concepts in the study of environmental politics and to open up new questions, problems, and research agendas in the field.

"The volume does so by drawing on a wide range of approaches from critical theory to poststructuralism, and spanning disciplines including international relations, geography, sociology, history, philosophy, anthropology, and political science. The 28 chapters cover a range of global and local studies, illustrations and cases. These range from the Cochabamba conference in Bolivia to climate camps in the UK; UN summits in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg to climate migrants from Pacific islands; forests in Indonesia to Dutch energy governance reform; indigenous communities in Namibia to oil extraction in the Niger Delta; survivalist militias in the USA to Maasai tribesmen in Kenya."

'Is AIDS treatment sustainable?'| by Kenneth Shadlen, in The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS: Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines|

Aginam, Obijiofor and Harrington, John and Yu, Peter K., (eds.),
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

This well-documented study by Ken Shadlen| brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines, including intellectual property, human rights, public health, and development studies, as well as activists to critically reflect on the global health governance regime. It explores the implications of high international intellectual property standards for access to essential medicines in developing countries. With a focus on HIV/AIDS governance, the book provides a timely analysis of the international legal and political landscape, the relationship between human rights and intellectual property, and emerging issues in global health policy. The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS concludes with concrete strategies on how to improve access to HIV/AIDS medicines.