
Publications
Discover the breadth of the Zed Books list and browse our award-winning social science books and series.
Zed Books is an academic press publishing critical social science books with an international and interdisciplinary focus, for a global audience of students, academics and practitioners.
Our current catalogue features almost 2000 works across the humanities and social sciences. While we’re known for publishing different kinds of books for a variety of audiences, including books for general readers, the vast majority of our books and 100% of the works featured here on Zed Scholar undergo an academic editorial workflow, including in-depth peer review. Academic peer review is a cornerstone of our editorial policy and the foundation of our academic output, you can find out more about why it’s important and how we use it here.
Combining exceptional research and publishing standards with an explicit commitment to increasing diversity in the academy, many of our subject lists have become globally renowned. This is especially the case within the fields of Development Studies, Area Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, International Politics, Decolonisation and Postcolonial Studies, Human Rights, Migration and Labour, as well as Heterodox and Development Economics.



































Learn more about the various types of peer review, why it’s so important, what the social and political considerations of peer review are and how we use it at Zed Books.