Political Control & Freedoms

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

The field of humanitarianism is characterised by profound uncertainty, by a constant need to respond to the unpredictable, and by concepts and prac...

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

Through a multidisciplinary approach, African Frontiers counters the superficial, Eurocentric and gender insensitive dominant discursive representa...

While it has been some time since computer technologies were first introduced to social surveys, their methodological advantages, as well as potent...

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critic...

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts t...

Some 600 million children worldwide do not legally exist. Without verifiable identification, they—and unregistered adults—could face serious diffic...

Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and...

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

The human rights issues in Japan are multifaceted. Over decades, domestic and international human rights organisations have raised concerns, but go...

Although the triggering effect of economic crises on revolt is a classic sociological topic, crises have until recently mostly triggered large-scal...

Sudan has been undergoing profound changes characterized by an uncertain transition from conflict to post-conflict society and the separation of th...

The focus of this volume is on the historical and geographical elements of law and religion. The first part delineates and analyzes the relation be...

The essays and articles selected for this volume analyze what is generally understood by freedom of religion and belief in todays world. The differ...

Political marketing coalesced as a subfield in the mid-1990s, and in 2002 the Journal of Political Marketing began publication. This anniversary co...

While the 1990s gave rise to a wealth of literature on the notion of ethical foreign policy, it has tended to simply focus on a version of realism,...

The links between distinctive political regimes and media systems are undeniable. As Siebert, Peterson and Schramm wrote (1956: 1) 60 years ago: th...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...

Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian law vi...

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are under...

First published in 1999, This book is a wide-ranging and authoritative review of the reception in England and other countries of Foxes Acts and Mon...

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (an...