Human Rights

This book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. While others have shown how 'truth is the first casual...

The unique model of apartheid, colonisation and military occupation that Israel imposes on the Palestinians, along with myriad violations of intern...

From militant suffragette at the beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War, Sylvia ...

Law lies at the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Jews sought a national home by 'Public Law' while Palestinians reject the project as ill...

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful I Have a Dream speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment ...

This book challenges some of the most basic assumptions underpinning the growing interest in religion, including: that religion is increasing and s...

This book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technologies and settings in demo...

Using original empirical data and critiquing existing research, Samia Bano explores the experience of British Muslim woman who use Shari'ah council...

Exploring the most topical issues around migration and integration in relation to Britain, this book, now in paperback, examines people smuggling a...

Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research a...

Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertake...

The book summarizes the work of international criminal courts focusing on the political challenges faced by them. It is a practical, comprehensive ...

Exploring the most topical issues around migration and integration in relation to Britain, this book, now in paperback, examines people smuggling a...

Drawing explicit lines, across time and a broad spectrum of violent acts, to provide the definitive field guide for understanding and opposing whit...

Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake o...

In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, ...

In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated inter...

How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post...

In the aftermath of a civil war, former enemies are left living side by sideand often the enemy is a son-in-law, a godfather, an old schoolmate, or...