Political Control & Freedoms

Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal...

In a powerful new book, Boggs traces the historical evolution of American politics by focusing on the gradual triumph of corporate and military pow...

How do we form a connection to the ideals and institutions of public life? This connection is sometimes expressed in the language of civic engageme...

A timely examination of the plight of children and youths in developing nations. The chapters strike a balance between diagnostic analysis of the c...

Which practices count as resistance? Why, where, and how does resistance emerge? When is resistance effective, and when is it truly progressive? In...

Examining the significance of the Movement for Black Lives, Reckoning uncovers a broadly applicable argument for the democratic necessity of social...

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Demo...

This volume focuses on issues that have only recently come to the forefront of the discipline such as freedom from religion, ordination of homosexu...

The contributors show that the current understanding of trafficking excludes large groups of people who, due to their migration status, experience ...

It would be difficult to find a more interesting topic than the relationship between the news media and politics, especially given that Americans a...

Evaluates the nature of the international governance of minority rights in the context of the enlargement of the European Union. This book examines...

This book examines Foucault's political framework for connecting political authority with practices of freedom. It starts from the older Foucault's...

Legal prohibitions against torture cannot prevent state violence. Prohibiting torture will not end it. In Understanding Torture, John T. Parry expl...

The United States is not a police state, but Congress is subject to special interests lobbying in pursuit of abusive commercial practices that leav...

In Resisting Equality Stephanie R. Rolph examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organisation committed to coordinating opposition to des...

Music may not be an obvious area for a criminologist's attention, but there are many areas appropriate for analysis in the relationship between sou...

Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World, by H.L.T. Quan is a compelling interrogation of the ways in which we have th...

21st Century Urban Race Politics begins by offering a twenty-first-century understanding of minority representation in historically majority-Caucas...

'Lucid, calm and compelling Olivier De Schutter tackles the big questions' Kate Pickett, co-author, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for E...

Sociological theory has veered between an insistence on understanding human rights as a genuine universal morality and far more cynical portrayals ...

Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge o...

Women are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. By focusing on the pandemic at its epicentre in Southern Africa, this book explores the gend...