Human Rights

Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the...

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in ...

Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the...

This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas: ...

Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defence contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accus...

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a po...

Covering a diverse range of topics, case studies and theories, the author undertakes a critique of the principal assumptions on which the existing ...

Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are ...

What did women from the Ipswich area have to do with getting the vote? Surely it was only in London that suffragettes chained themselves to railing...

Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are ...

This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas: ...

'Essential reading... A horrifying account of the worst that human beings can do to each other. Neil Belton's synthesis of biography and history is...

This book considers the philosophical, sociological and legal implications of the distinction between universal human rights accorded to all becaus...

In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, ...

This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of raci...

This edited volume critically examines the widely supported doctrine of the 'Responsibility to Protect', and investigates the claim that it embodie...

The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has...

Political Economy of Human Rights is the first complete text covering and discussing human rights from a political economy perspective. Confronting...

Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-pr...

Exploring the relationship between religion and the state Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal demo...

Dependent Communities investigates the political situations in contemporary Cambodia and East Timor, where powerful international donors intervened...