Political Control & Freedoms

«This book by Jerome Teelucksingh showcases his excellent craftsmanship as a social historian. The subject of the study is the involvement of the L...

'People can only be free in relation to one another.'Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philoso...

Previously published as Mandela's WayWritten by the co-author of international bestseller Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extr...

The twentieth century, a time of profound disillusionment with nationalism, was also the great age of internationalism. To the twenty-first-century...

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher illustrates how the modern US Supreme Court has increasingly adopted a view of the constitutional right to th...

Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a trans tipping point, while American Vog...

Explores modern and contemporary American literature's contribution to and critique of the newly emerging field of transparency studies In the twe...

This vivid and fascinating collection of propaganda spans over a century a visual feast illustrating how persuasion, manipulation and fear were us...

The discourse surrounding freedom of religion and expression in Muslim-majority countries is  complex and multifaceted, shaped by a myriad of facto...

In Muslim-majority countries, safeguarding minority rights and advancing gender equality are vital components of the broader human rights discussio...

Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Tho...

Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Tho...

Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian nongovernmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations. The book interrogates...

This book critically analyses the important role of radio in public life in post-apartheid South Africa. As the most widespread and popular form of...

Human trafficking has been at the forefront of policies and campaigns since the passing of the United Nations' Palermo Protocol in 2000. However, s...

This book shows the contribution that empathy can and should make to the proper conduct of war. US Army doctrine identifies empathy as an essential...

his book describes the iwi of Ngati Kahu through the traditions and histories of each of the sixteen hapu, told by kuia and kaumatua and kept alive...

A compelling account of South Africas post-Apartheid democracyAt a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won ...

Presents a powerful argument for the limitations of judicial action to support significant social reformnow updated with new data and analysis.   S...

In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the University of São Paulo, Gabriela Leite deci...

In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the University of São Paulo, Gabriela Leite deci...

DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest chronicles the history of the DREAMers--the term used to describe undocumented immigrants brought to the U...

In 2009 Ugandas Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared Gay rights are human rights and hu...

The U.S. media has been tainted with Russian disinformation, but the more significant threat is how the Right has embraced the Russian model of the...

This book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp t...

DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest chronicles the history of the DREAMers--the term used to describe undocumented immigrants brought to the U...

This book investigates the role of the internet and social media in political processes in non-western and non-democratic contexts. Using Zimbabwe ...

How are Western, mostly secular, societies handling religion in its increasingly pluralistic and complex forms? Here, the authors study the interac...