Human Rights

Global justice has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Whilst half of the worlds population continue to live on less than $2 per da...

Global justice has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Whilst half of the worlds population continue to live on less than $2 per da...

What is democracy? How do we know when we have it? Is liberal democracy merely one, or the only, version of democracy.

In this book, leading social thinker Pierre Bourdieu and the artist Hans Haacke discuss contemporary art and the relations between art, politics an...

Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, ...

A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Marti...

The question of minority rights is one of the great dilemmas of contemporary politics. Increases in the flow of immigrants, migrants and refugees h...

This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.

The question of minority rights is one of the great dilemmas of contemporary politics. Increases in the flow of immigrants, migrants and refugees h...

First published in 1969. The original History of Australian Land Settlement, 1788-1920 was published in Melbourne in 1924, when the writer was a yo...

In this essay, John Keane rethinks the relationship between the media and democracy. He opens up and explores a cluster of vital questions: where d...

These essays, with one exception originally published in Philosophy & Public Affairs, consider the moral problems associated with improving the...

'All opponents of globalization should carry it in their luggage.' Le Monde Raoul Vaneigem is an iconic figure in French philosophy. One of the fo...

This is a first-hand account of the often appalling conditions in prisons, police stations, psychiatric institutions, detention centres and other p...

This book details the deplorable conditions that exist in a minority sector of international shipping operating mainly, although not exclusively, u...

If human rights express the equal claim of every person to the recognition and protection of their vital interests, they necessarily assert univers...

In this moving book, two skilled oral historians collect the words of Americans who have been victims of political repression in their own country....

This authoritative text concerns itself with freedom and `alternatives to freedom', based on original survey research of public attitudes to civil ...

The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control an...

Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s after be...

This inspiring tale of grit and determination sprinkled with humor, wit, and a taste of irony is the story of Winifred Bryan Horner's journey from ...

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ord...

An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of `reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensati...