Political Control & Freedoms

Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are i...

In Going Stealth Toby Beauchamp demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to state surveillance practices that identify threa...

Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is t...

A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain. In the 1980s, Professo...

The past few decades have seen a proliferation of video surveillance systems in major centres in a number of Western countries. Is this development...

In New Mexico's Moses, Ramón A. Gutiérrez dives deeply into Reies López Tijerina's religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how...

This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936–42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938–56). The two intentional communit...

In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese en...

Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final thre...

This open access book theorises and concretises the idea of ‘absolute rights’ in human rights law with a focus on Article 3 of the European Convent...

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal domina...

This book tells the story of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the largest nonsectarian refugee relief agency in the world. Founded in the ...

Arguing Identity and Human Rights poses open questions about how to best argue for human rights, to help us think through the advantages and trade-...

This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights.The cont...

In The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile, Pablo Policzer tackles the difficult task of analyzing how authoritarian regimes utilize coercion. Eve...