Political Control & Freedoms

More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter ...

From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today Kwa...

More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter ...

Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the “Red Summer” of 1919 that saw an upsurge i...

Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the “Red Summer” of 1919 that saw an upsurge i...

“After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that ...

From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today Kwa...

Kaing Guek Eav was an ordinary man growing up in Cambodia in the mid-twentieth century. But then, adopting the alias “Duch,” he joined the Khmer Ro...

Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the...

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in ...

Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the...

Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conf...

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone...

This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas: ...

Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defence contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accus...

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a po...

Covering a diverse range of topics, case studies and theories, the author undertakes a critique of the principal assumptions on which the existing ...

Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando set...

Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are ...

What did women from the Ipswich area have to do with getting the vote? Surely it was only in London that suffragettes chained themselves to railing...

Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are ...

'Essential reading... A horrifying account of the worst that human beings can do to each other. Neil Belton's synthesis of biography and history is...