Political Control & Freedoms

Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control. This book discuss...

Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappea...

Communication defines political representation. At the core of the representational relationship lies the interaction between principal and agent; ...

At the heart of modern democracy lies the public sphere, which is most centrally shaped by those actors that integrate it discursively: the mass me...

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and...

This book examines ethnic conflicts of the former Soviet Union to indicate how turbulent the world has become in the post-Cold War era-and how diff...

Genocide studies is a relatively new field of comparative inquiry, but recent years have seen an increasing range of themes and subject-matter bein...

Composed of activists, academics, religious scholars and professionals, this generation is drawing on new reformist thinking emerging from outside ...

Since the MeToo hashtag went viral in 2017, the movement has burgeoned across social media, moving beyond Twitter and into living rooms and courtro...

Today human rights represent a primary concern of the international legal system. The international communitys commitment to the protection and pro...

This title was first published in 2001. The case of Lawless v Ireland is a landmark in the development of human rights jurisprudence. Stemming from...

This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on television and new forms of advertising in countries...

Gender, Heteronormativity and the American Presidency places notions of gender at the center of its analysis of presidential campaign communication...

While every constitution includes a provision over the right to equal protection of the laws, perhaps with different terminology, this book interpr...

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the c...

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, ac...

The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economi...

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advanc...

This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with ...

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights C...

What is this thing called Global Justice? is a clear and engaging introduction to this widely studied and important topic. It explores the fundamen...

Investigating art practitioners responses to violence, this book considers how artists have used art practices to rethink concepts of violence and ...

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, ac...

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, incl...