Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness, and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses and compares forms of feminist artivism to interrogate bodily rights while closely examining the lived experiences of women and their right of free choice.
Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies.
As a new president takes power in Russia, this book provides an analysis of the changing relationship between control of Russian television media and presidential power during the tenure of President Vladimir Putin.
The Catholic Church still takes an ambivalent stance toward homosexuality, declaring that homosexuals should be respected and not discriminated against while morally condemning their intimate relationships.
This book examines public perceptions of the legitimacy of drones, and how this affects countries' policies on and the global governance of drone warfare.
When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region the Middle East made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities.
In diesen 1997–2012 gehaltenen Vorträgen spannt der Autor einen weiten Bogen über sein zentrales Thema: die Begegnung mit dem Ätherischen bereits wirksam erscheinenden Christus.
The Western Crisis of Truth in the Early 21st Century explores the symbolic, experiential, and associative side of contemporary political culture, arguing that phenomena such as 'post-truth', digitalization, mediatization, propaganda, illiberalism, or populism, far from being curiosities, have in fact come to represent a uniform aspect of political culture - a challenge to the 'enlightened', 'developed', and 'progressive' world that we believed ourselves to be inhabiting.
Staten Island is New York City's smallest yet fastest growing borough: a conservative, suburban community of nearly a half a million on the fringe of the nation's most liberal, global city.
This book analyses actual and potential normative (whether legislative or contractual) conflicts and complex transnational disputes related to state-controlled enterprises (SCEs) operations and how they are interwoven with the problem of foreign direct investment.
Today, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) has gained international recognition and is widely used to complement the conventional methods of resolving disputes through courts of law.
Mientras trabajos precedentes se habían focalizado exclusivamente en la trayectoria del Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (MSTM), en este libro Claudia Touris demuestra que la corriente tercermundista en la Argentina fue una red sociorreligiosa más amplia y diversa que se desplegó como una verdadera constelación de actores sociales integrada no solo por los sacerdotes, sino también por religiosas, laicos que pasaron por los ámbitos de sociabilidad católica renovada por el Concilio Vaticano II y otros, como el grupo de Cristianismo y Revolución, que lo conectaron con la vía insurreccional minoritaria en la corriente tercermundista.
La avanzada evangélica en las arenas partidarias latinoamericanas es uno de los acontecimientos más estudiados en el campo de la sociología de la religión y un evento que suscita hondas polémicas en el espacio amplio de la sociedad civil.
The purpose of putting this book in your hands is to communicate to you the value and strength that must sustain you through this period of transition in which we find ourselves, as well as to reveal something of the solid and healthy foundation on which it is built the future of the Incoming Age.
In December 2001, Taiwan held an election that many observers said, in addition to the 2000 election that resulted in opposition party leader Chen Shui-bian winning the presidency, consolidated its democracy.
In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it.
This book focuses on the decision of the Tribunal in the South China Sea Arbitration that China had operated its law enforcement vessels in ways that created risks of collision with Philippine official vessels at Scarborough Shoal in April and May 2012.
This book analyses he implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in the light of state practices of China and Japan.
This book analyzes the implementation of CSR reporting and codes of business conduct and ethics in the legal systems of the USA, Austria and China and their enforcement in international supply chain arbitrations.