Political Control & Freedoms

This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since 1945. Essays addres...

The apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986. This is the blazi...

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research...

We are understandably reluctant to rank moral atrocities. What is worse, genocide or terrorism? In this book, Thomas W. Simon argues that politicia...

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research...

The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societi...

The debate about languages of instruction in Africa and Asia involves an analysis of both the historical thrust of national government and also dev...

The author assesses the politics of different humanitarian interventions in the Mexico-US border region developing a unique perspective on the sign...

State Voting Laws in America documents changing views on voting rights, emphasizing court rulings which shaped our understanding of what constitute...

This study focuses on the field of security studies through the prism of migration. Using ethnographic methods to illustrate an experiential theory...

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face si...

High-Risk Feminism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots womens organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the ...

In an EU increasingly worried about the security of its citizens and its territory, how should the European Parliament make policy decisions in the...

This insightful book analyzes the political engagement and marginalization of three of Milan's migrant groups, Filipinos, Egyptians and Ecuadorians...

This volume focuses on challenges to the effective and proper use of human rights and tries to identify, through a series of case studies, strategi...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!A New York Times Book Review Editor's PickSecrets of the Sprakkar is a fascinating window into what a more gender-equa...

Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, an...

The Iraqi Bath states Anfal operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth centurys ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human....

Three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracys social foundations and call for a movement to reduce inequality, strengthen inclusive soli...

As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening ...

Vladimir Pereverzin's Kafkaesque story is vividly told in this skilful translation of his shocking, but also wryly humorous and ultimately upliftin...

The authors explore the outlook of Rwanda in the context of development of East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. They examine Rwanda's vision, achiev...

The Political Geography of Campaign Finance examines the distribution of political campaign contributions in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 preprimary el...