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Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds
Susie AlegreCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Chosen as one of the best books of 2022 by the Financial Times and the Telegraph.Longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing'Compelling...
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Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights
Jean-Yves PranchèreCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99The first systematic analysis of the arguments made against human rights from the French Revolution to the present day. Through the writings of Edm...
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A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: The UN Human Rights Committee''s Monitoring of ICCPR Rights
Paul M. TaylorCurrent price €218.03Original price €236.99A new and an essential reference work for any international human rights law academic, student or practitioner, A Commentary on the International C...
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Human Rights in a Time of Populism: Challenges and Responses
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €104.87Original price €113.99The electoral successes of right-wing populists since 2016 have unsettled world politics. The spread of populism poses dangers for human rights wit...
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A Place in Public: Womens Rights in Meiji Japan
Marnie S. AndersonCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99This book addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. During the early decades of the Meiji...
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Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest: Anthem Posture in a Divided America
Lexington BooksCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest: Anthem Kneeling and Standing in a Divided America examines the take-a-knee NFL protests, a trend tha...
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The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies
Gerasimos TsourapasCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99In this ground-breaking work, Gerasimos Tsourapas examines how migration and political power are inextricably linked, and enhances our understandin...
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Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Jack DonnellyCurrent price €119.59Original price €129.99In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly ...
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Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Jack DonnellyCurrent price €29.90Original price €32.50In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly ...
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Dignity, Freedom and Justice
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This is an open access book.Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The purpose of this book is to ...
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The African Human Rights System: Origin and Evolution
K. KufuorCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99This book challenges the received scholarship on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. The author applies economic and social theory to...
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The Fight for the Right to Food: Lessons Learned
C. GolayCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book documents and analyzes the experiences of the UN's first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. It highlights the conceptual advances i...
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Romania Confronts its Communist Past: Democracy, Memory, and Moral Justice
Marius StanCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Reckoning with mass crimes perpetrated by an ideologically driven regime entails engaging in a thorough-going exploration of its utopian foundation...
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Media and Social Justice
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Topics add...
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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy
Cherian GeorgeCurrent price €21.15Original price €22.99Current price €21.15Original price €22.99Save 8% -
Nationals Abroad: Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of Modern International Law
Christopher A. CaseyCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99It is a fundamental term of the social contract that people trade allegiance for protection. In the nineteenth century, as millions of people made ...
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Ethics as a Weapon of War: Militarism and Morality in Israel
James EastwoodCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99What role does ethics play in modern-day warfare? Is it possible for ethics and militarism to exist hand-in-hand? James Eastwood examines the Israe...
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Media and Social Justice
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Topics add...
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The Impact of YouTube on U.S. Politics
LaChrystal D. RickeCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99The Impact of YouTube on U.S. Politics provides a historical, descriptive, and conceptual analysis of the broad and evolving political impact of Yo...
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Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice: The Families of the Disappeared
Iosif KovrasCurrent price €43.23Original price €46.99The families of the disappeared have long struggled to uncover the truth about their missing relatives. In so doing, their mobilization has shaped ...
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Who Elected Oxfam?: A Democratic Defense of Self-Appointed Representatives
Laura MontanaroCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Non-elected actors, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, present themselves as representatives of others to audiences of...
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Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political, and Empirical Analysis
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Although the 'Israeli case' of bioethics has been well documented, this book offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics that is a milestone ...
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Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust
Nathan A. KurzCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of the twenti...
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Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Deva R. WoodlyCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Examining the significance of the Movement for Black Lives, Reckoning uncovers a broadly applicable argument for the democratic necessity of social...
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Exclusion by Elections: Inequality, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy
John D. HuberCurrent price €26.22Original price €28.50Exclusion by Elections develops a theory about the circumstances under which 'class identities' as opposed to 'ethnic identities' become salient in...
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American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism
David O. SearsCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99The civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised...
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Exclusion by Elections: Inequality, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy
John D. HuberCurrent price €81.87Original price €88.99Exclusion by Elections develops a theory about the circumstances under which 'class identities' as opposed to 'ethnic identities' become salient in...
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Open versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution
Christopher D. JohnstonCurrent price €84.63Original price €91.99Debates over redistribution, social insurance, and market regulation are central to American politics. Why do some citizens prefer a large role for...
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Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain
Chris MooresCurrent price €94.49Original price €104.99The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was formed in the 1930s against a backdrop of fascism and 'popular front' movements. In this volati...
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Orwell''s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
Laura BeersCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western socie...
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In the Camps: Life in Chinas High-Tech Penal Colony
Darren BylerCurrent price €17.02Original price €18.50A revelatory account of what is really happening to China's Uyghurs'Intimate, sombre, and damning... compelling.' Financial Times'Chilling... Horri...
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The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples: The Domestication of an Illusion
Jörg FischCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. ...
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Dehumanization in the Global Migration Crisis
Dr Adrienne de RuiterCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99What does it mean to fail to recognise people's humanity? This book analyses dehumanization in the global migration crisis to answer this complex q...
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Security, Citizenship and Human Rights: Shared Values in Uncertain Times
D. McGheeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Security, Citizenship and Human Rights examines counter-terrorism, immigration, citizenship, human rights, 'equalities' and the shifting discourses...
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Ethnicity, Migration and Enterprise
P. PanayiotopoulosCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book examines the development of enterprise among key migrant groups in Europe and the United States. It argues that the development of 'ethni...
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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions
I. ShawCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, fam...
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The Politics of International Migration Management
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new appr...
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Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba
K. BouwerCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the...
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Ethics, Authority, and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99In original essays written by both senior scholars as well as rising younger scholars in the field of international ethics, this volume addresses t...
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Fixing Fractured Nations: The Challenge of Ethnic Separatism in the Asia-Pacific
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €94.75Original price €102.99Asia's rising power and wealth offer its many oppressed ethnic minorities hope for greater political freedom and an end to violence. But the realit...
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Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict: Towards a Decolonized Global Justice
Ariadna EstévezCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and...
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Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century
N. PopeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal...
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Phantom Democracy: Corporate Interests and Political Power in America
C. BoggsCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99In a powerful new book, Boggs traces the historical evolution of American politics by focusing on the gradual triumph of corporate and military pow...
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The Capacity for Civic Engagement: Public and Private Worlds of the Self
D. LevineCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99How do we form a connection to the ideals and institutions of public life? This connection is sometimes expressed in the language of civic engageme...
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Childrens Rights and International Development: Lessons and Challenges from the Field
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99A timely examination of the plight of children and youths in developing nations. The chapters strike a balance between diagnostic analysis of the c...
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Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99Which practices count as resistance? Why, where, and how does resistance emerge? When is resistance effective, and when is it truly progressive? In...
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Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Deva R. WoodlyCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Examining the significance of the Movement for Black Lives, Reckoning uncovers a broadly applicable argument for the democratic necessity of social...
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