Human Rights

This book fills a significant gap in the extensive literature on autocratisation by offering theorisation of authoritarian institutional landscapes...

Every year, thousands of girls and women die at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring s...

Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak...

A Vietnamese Refugee, a Viral Video, and the United Airlines Scandal That Started It All“His refusal to give up his seat on a United Airlines fligh...

The Freedom Riders Across Borders: Contentious Mobilities provides the first comprehensive transnational historical analysis of the Freedom Rides. ...

State takeovers of local governments have garnered national attention of late, particularly following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. In most ...

Although truth and reconciliation commissions are supposed to generate consensus and unity in the aftermath of political violence, Abena Ampofoa As...

Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations--Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, the violence in Crown Heights, Leonard Jeffries' polemical speec...

The revival of authoritarianism is one of the most important forces reshaping world politics today. However, not all authoritarians are the same. T...

For the past ten years, human rights language has increasingly been employed by Armenian citizens when interacting with state actors in public spac...

This volume is a collection of some of the key essays by Ramesh Thakur on the origins, implementation and future prospects of the Responsibility to...

Voting in Indian Country uses conflicts over voting rights as a lens for understanding the centuries-long fight for Native self-determination. Amon...

This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the...

“David Kaye’s book is crucial to understanding the tactics, rhetoric and stakes in one of the most consequential free speech debates in human histo...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the world's best-known and most translated documents. When it was presented to the United Natio...

The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, television professionals, the Federal...

This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster s...

This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights.The cont...

Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual - James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everym...