Short Book Series

Aims & Scope

The Short Book Series was launched in 2022. The aim of this books series is to make available to a wider public on all continents short books of approximately 100 pages (or 30,000 words) focused on matters of theoretical or political importance in the current crisis. This series promotes innovative thinking aiming to influence theory and praxis. Manuscripts may be published in English, Portuguese or Spanish, and translations will be undertaken when possible. Publications will be distributed freely in electronic form. Limited print editions will be made available when and where resources permit. The collaborating organizations of this publication initiative are SMAIAS, CARES, and Coletivo Novo Bandung. The initiative is supported by Books for Change, New Delhi, India.

Series Editors

  • Praveen Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • Lyn Ossome, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Paris Yeros, Federal University of ABC, Brazil

Editorial Council

  • Sandeep Chachra, Centre for Agrarian Reform and Education for South, India
  • Walter Chambati, The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe
  • Archana Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
  • Marcelo Rosa, Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Issa Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Dzodzi Tsikata, University of Ghana, Ghana

Titles

Samir Amin. The Agrarian Question Beyond Neoliberalism: Essays on the Peasantry, Sovereignty and Socialism. Harare, New Delhi and São Paulo: Agrarian South Network in collaboration with Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, and Coletivo Novo Bandung, 74 p.2022
Prabhat Patnaik. [Provisional title] The Economics of Imperialism Today: The Agrarian Question and the World of Work. Harare, New Delhi and São Paulo: Agrarian South Network in collaboration with Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, and Coletivo Novo Bandung.(2022)
Issa Shivji. [Provisional title] Working People and the Revolutionary Intellectual: Challenges to Theory and Praxis Today. Harare, New Delhi and São Paulo: Agrarian South Network in collaboration with Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, and Coletivo Novo Bandung.(2023)
Sit Tsui, Erebus Wong, Lau Kin Chi & Wen Tiejun. [Provisional title] China’s Path to Sovereignty, Socialism and Resilience. Harare, New Delhi and São Paulo: Agrarian South Network in collaboration with Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, and Coletivo Novo Bandung.(2023)