Political Oppression & Persecution

The extraordinary true story of a West African girls upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only...

Fourteen women testify to the shocking human rights abuses in Iranian prisons WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 'A must-read for anyone conce...

Using autoethnography to examine the social construction of whiteness in Puerto Rico. Guillermo Rebollo Gil draws from artistic, activist and popul...

While the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twen...

A twelve-year old boy returns to his village from school in Cairo to find the community torn by feud and fear. Working together, the young, old, me...

The astonishing story of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai who became one of Hong Kongs leading activists for democracy and is today Chinas mos...

In this latest book by the award-winning author of the hugely influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands, Ifi Amadiume propels gender relations be...

This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophica...

Israel's pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event ...

'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the countrys game. Odesa i...

First published in 1999, This book is a wide-ranging and authoritative review of the reception in England and other countries of Foxes Acts and Mon...

Popular protests are on the rise in China. However, since protesters rely on existing channels of participation and on patronage by elite backers, ...

The frequent failure of military or armed interventions to protect civilians is well known. This edited collection provides a comprehensive account...

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled wi...

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