Civics and citizenship

The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs.

Is the notion of postcolonial Europe an oxymoron?

The remarkable life of Paul Robeson, quintessential Harlem Renaissance man: scholar, all-American, actor, activist, and firebrandBorn the son of an ex-slave in New Jersey in 1898, Paul Robeson, endowed with multiple gifts, seemed destined for fame.

The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the poor minded, an obstacle to coexistence.

Can reading make us better citizens?

The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being.

The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values.

Im Fokus der interdisziplinären Studie von Ertuğrul Şahin steht insgesamt die Frage, ob ein normativer Euro-Islam-Ansatz, der zugleich eine praktikable und zukunftsträchtige Lösung anbieten möchte, in einer theoretisch und empirisch gesättigten Finalitat konzipiert werden kann.

While French laicite is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy.

This book develops ''Collective Equality'' as a new theoretical basis for the law of peace and for transitional justice.

In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Der Band greift pädagogische Reaktionen, Interventionen und Überlegungen auf, die angesichts von Klimakrise, Ukraine-Krieg, Energiekrise und Corona-Pandemie dazu beitragen können, die Gefahr der Distanz zwischen Bürgerschaft und Demokratie zu verringern.

A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify Black Americans in their support of the Democratic partyBlack Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats-a surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less than 10 percent in the 1970s.

In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive.

In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate the fundamental questionsequality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and personal rights in the workplace, and the costs and benefits of corporate and entrepreneurial capitalism.

In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle.

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses.

From the abolition era to the Civil Rights movement to the age of Obama, the promise of perfectibility and improvement resonates in the story of American democracy.

An assessment of the experiences of irregular migrants and stateless people living in ''Fortress Europe''.

The dramatic events of the twentieth century have often led to the mass migration of intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists.

In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states.

Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 million today.

People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe.

This book examines the possibility of creating new ways of existing beyond human rights.

Here, the history of the Indonesian LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now as it moves again into hiding.

Constitutions divide into those that provide for a constitutionally protected set of rights, where courts can strike down legislation, and those where rights are protected predominantly by parliament, where courts can interpret legislation to protect rights, but cannot strike down legislation.

Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history.

Human trafficking has captured worldwide attention as a crucial moral and political issue, but perhaps nowhere more than in the United States.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

This book addresses a lacuna in scholarship concerning Hannah Arendt's Augustinian heritage that has predominantly focused on her early work.

This book presents an original Marian approach towards war and peace, dedicated to the suffering of children, women, and men in Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine and in the world.

Dieser Band blickt im Sinne des Utopischen nach vorne und fragt: Wieviel Utopie braucht die Erwachsenenbildung?

The story of Africa is a ghost story with two plots.

One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights.

This book explores the intercultural policy paradigm emerging within diversity and migration studies.

Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front.

Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram survived the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, only to find when she came to the United States that racism was as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe.

Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing.

The Politics of Compassion explores the manifold obstacles that hinder our individual and collective capacity to care for the vulnerable, offering insights from history, religion, ethics, cognitive and social sciences, international relations, public policy, and contemporary politics.

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.

Theodore Roosevelt is well-known as a rancher, hunter, naturalist, soldier, historian, explorer, and statesman.

The first comprehensive analysis of the concept of European Public Order as deployed by the European Court of Human Rights.

Throughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions.

Inter-marriage both reflects and brings social change.

Inside one of the nation's most important works on raceTwo Societies: The Rioting of 1967 and the Writing of the Kerner Report studies the 150 riots that occurred throughout the country in 1967 and how this infamous report was written in only seven months and unanimously adopted by both Republicans and Democrats.

Grundsätzlich geht es dem Menschen darum, im Lichte seiner Endlichkeit ein gelingendes Dasein zu führen.

More than ever Canada's constitutional monarchy should be treasured as a distinct asset for the nation.