Political Control & Freedoms

'Nesrine Malik writes with urgent eloquence about the world we live in, applying her brilliant mind to some of the most important debates of our ag...

As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, guns are rich with complex and contested significance. What guns mean, why they matter, and...

Whatever the desires of your heart, Change Your World will guide you through the entire process to take action and start making an impact today rig...

This volume demonstrates that migration- and diversity-related concepts are always contested, and provides a reflexive critical awareness and bette...

The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. ...

On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other act...

This book examines core thematic approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and analyzes case studies regarding the implementation of this i...

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the pub...

Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out ...

In Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge stru...

This book examines everyday borders in the UK and Calais as sites of ethical political struggle between segregation and solidarity.In an age of mob...

Why does inequality have such a hold on American society and public policy? And what can we, as citizens, do about it? Inequality in America takes ...

Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, sometimes in competition or in tension and occasiona...

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prosp...

This new textbook provides an introduction to humanitarian protection, a field of study concerned with international responses to armed conflict, p...

This book systematically analyses the EU’s commitment to a human rights-based approach to development through the lens of global justice theory. It...

This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance...

This book investigates one of the most pervasive forms of modern slavery: bonded labour, whereby labour is linked with a credit agreement, leaving ...

This book studies human rights discourse across a variety of graphic novels, both fiction and non-fiction, originating in different parts of the wo...

Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage vernacular, acti...

Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage vernacular, acti...

Human rights have a rich life in the world around us. Political rhetoric pays tribute to them, or scorns them. Citizens and activists strive for th...