Political Control & Freedoms

Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanote...

This book is about both the symbolic and the real struggles for the control of the EU's agenda on participatory democracy in the last fifteen years...

What are the implications of colonialism for a theory of global justice today? What does rectificatory justice mean in the light of colonialism? Wh...

News fixers are locally-based media employees who serve as translators, coordinators, and guides to foreign journalists in unfamiliar terrain. Oper...

Bringing together studies from across the Nordic region, this book examines the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focu...

What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the sociologies of racism and ev...

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic ...

This timely contribution pulls no punches and views the UK as institutionally Eurosceptic across politics and society, from the press to defence. I...

Decision makers' attitude towards women and gender has a significant influence on development, especially after conflict. This book analyses the ef...

The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects for the first time three distinct research areas digital ethnography, causal ethnography, and media...

The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects for the first time three distinct research areas digital ethnography, causal ethnography, and media...

In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courage...

My parents named me Vuyani, which simply means be happy and let us rejoice! The Joy Dancer, by multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer, Gregor...

My parents named me Vuyani, which simply means be happy and let us rejoice! The Joy Dancer, by multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer, Gregor...

This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era. The cru...

Hypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention of comply...

This book claims that artificial intelligence (AI) may affect our freedom at work, in our daily life, and in the political sphere. The author provi...

This unique book, incorporating both theory and practice, provides an invaluable guide to the assessment of dreams in transactional analysis (TA).G...

Metropolitan Detroit is America's most segregated metropolitan area, but amidst segregation, there is also growing diversity, including increasing ...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, A...

A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by...

One of the solutions proposed by the European Union to remedy the effects of the 2008 economic crisis is to increase female labour participation. T...

Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? We are living in world in which human rights are violated o...

Global justice and human rights is perhaps the hottest topic in political science today. This series of monographs and edited collections publishes...

This is an eclectic, interdisciplinary overview of persuasive strategies and propaganda techniques. Living in a saturated media environment, we are...

Defining an institution as a public system of rules that sets out positions, rights and duties, this book uses a philosophical argument to analyse ...

This book offers a much-needed analysis of the difficulties associated with providing state protection from violence based on sexual orientation an...

This open-access book aims to explore and promote indigenous participation in legal design and visual law, with a specific focus on co-creating a v...

Das Buch bietet Perspektiven von Entscheidungsträgern. Es soll die Leserinnen und Leser dazu inspirieren, sich für den sozialen Wandel zu engagiere...

Compares the political development of four Maghreb countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and MauritaniaThe past few years have been a period of unpr...

The first of its kind, this comprehensive interdisciplinary textbook in Business and Human Rights (BHR) connects and integrates themes, discussions...

Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's ...

This book engages with debates on ethnic minority and Muslim young people showing, beyond apathy and violent political extremism, the diverse forms...

This book examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East usi...

This book examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East usi...

A timely assessment of loyalist history, identity and community in Northern Ireland today which provides a comprehensive picture of how loyalism ha...

This volume makes available transcripts and commentary from the secret correspondence between former Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmatov and Ch...

Through compelling and insightful analysis of the Russian case, this book explores the role that social welfare plays in regime transitions. It exa...

This book examines how many women active in revolutionary movements develop feminist identities and how this identity simultaneously contributes to...

Given the weaknesses of mainstream democratisation since the 1980s, the authors present a cutting edge examination of dynamics of political change ...

This edited collection interprets and assesses the transformation of Brazil under the Workers' Party. It addresses the extent of the changes the Wo...

Through a rigorous critique of the dominant narrative of the Rwandan genocide, Collins provides an alternative argument to the debate situating the...

This book explores the structural tensions and conflicts that arise with the abolition of border controls between the EU's member states and how th...

The United States' use of torture and harsh interrogation techniques during the War on Terror has sparked fervent debate among citizens and scholar...

This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early ...