Human Rights

This edited volume looks at human security and conflict in northern Kenya and nearby areas within Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Uganda. It spells o...

The authors provide a systematic analysis of looking beyond the abuses of human rights in the Middle East with a view toward problematizing traditi...

Disability and Disaster adds disaster research to the expanding area of disability studies. The book includes writings by international scholars an...

An analysis of the Turkish position regarding the Armenian claims of genocide during World War I and the continuing debate over this issue, the aut...

Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between...

Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanote...

What are the implications of colonialism for a theory of global justice today? What does rectificatory justice mean in the light of colonialism? Wh...

What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the sociologies of racism and ev...

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic ...

Decision makers' attitude towards women and gender has a significant influence on development, especially after conflict. This book analyses the ef...

Hypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention of comply...

A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by...

Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? We are living in world in which human rights are violated o...

Global justice and human rights is perhaps the hottest topic in political science today. This series of monographs and edited collections publishes...

Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's ...

This volume makes available transcripts and commentary from the secret correspondence between former Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmatov and Ch...

This book examines how many women active in revolutionary movements develop feminist identities and how this identity simultaneously contributes to...

Through a rigorous critique of the dominant narrative of the Rwandan genocide, Collins provides an alternative argument to the debate situating the...

This unique volume unpacks the concept and practice of naming and shaming by examining how governments, NGOs and international organisations attemp...

This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global governance institutions in the field of development in terms of opposition. With a...

America in the Philippines, 1899-1902: The First Torture Scandal analyzes the US army's use of the 'water cure' torture in the Philippine War and t...

Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why. With contributions from experts in the field...

This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and g...