Political Control & Freedoms

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provid...

From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world. Since 2011 they have gained prominence in...

To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis--dramatically demonstrated by t...

Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill...

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provid...

Can human rights be truly universal, without becoming a subtle form of Western imperialism or restricting the rights of women, minorities, LGBT peo...

Forced Migration and Social Trauma addresses the topic of social trauma and migration by bringing together a broad range of interdisciplinary and i...

This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy...

We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with. Much less investigated is the question of what cities do wi...

What does the notion of the global south mean to media studies today?This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in ...

The concept of networks and the techniques of social network analysis have each assumed increasing importance in social science in recent years, no...

This book delves into the complexities of genocide as a legal concept, offering a fresh perspective by exploring the rights of groups to exist unde...

Pepin-Neff coins the term Tolerable Inequality to examine the ways in which politicians and political actors use the policy process as a tool to ma...

Pepin-Neff coins the term Tolerable Inequality to examine the ways in which politicians and political actors use the policy process as a tool to ma...

The astonishing story of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai who became one of Hong Kongs leading activists for democracy and is today Chinas mos...

A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a persons soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?Intern...