Civics and citizenship

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 twentieth century, the related Black Power movement has taken a more complex path through the nation's history.

On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers' strike.

Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary.

This important anthology provides students and teachers with voices of social and global justice that have been marginalized or forgotten by history.

This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today.

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice.

After decades of steady progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, several parts of Europe are facing new waves of resistance to a so-called 'gender ideology' or 'gender theory'.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

The past decades public interest in history is booming.

A transformative exploration of queer theology and the debate around same-sex marriage within the Church.

The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment.

Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics.

This book explores how different publics make sense of and evaluate anti-terrorism powers within the UK, and the implications of this for citizenship and security.

This book explores how different publics make sense of and evaluate anti-terrorism powers within the UK, and the implications of this for citizenship and security.

The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor.

Many in the US, including Barack Obama, have called for a 'post-racial' politics: yet race still divides the country politically, economically and socially.

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The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment.

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

Across the world, grassroots movements for change are growing in number, skill, and impact on society.

As the global marketplace grows and becomes more complex, increasing stress is placed upon employees.

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Over forty years after it first appeared, T.

Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community.

Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community.

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance.

From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues surrounding digital privacy rights and freedom of speech, the Internet is changing the ways in which we govern and are governed as citizens.

Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary forms of protests.

What role does the protection of citizens abroad play in motivating states' policies?

What would you need if you wanted to live in a democracy?

Since the inception of the "e;War on Terror,"e; Israel has become increasingly important to Western imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies towards the Palestinians.

The new front in the War on Terror is the "e;homegrown enemy,"e; domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe.

In his heyday, Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous.

In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police.

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order.

In July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding a crackdown on free speech to its continuing blockade of Gaza and the expansion of illegal settlements.

A taste of austerity, the limits of democracy and the overlooked, untold stories of a country in ''crisis''.

Tourists killed in Tunisia, Jihadi John targeted by drone strikes, carnage in Paris and hundreds of thousands of Syrians risking everything to reach Europe in an attempt to escape the violence.

The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence attorneyThe only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and sentenced to life imprisonment.

In a country famous for having the most CCTVs in the world, how safe are your rights?

'By far the best introduction to Buddhism available.

Spying, once the province of the KGB, CIA and MI5, has become part of everyday life.

The diamond fields of Chiadzwa, among the world,s largest sources of rough diamonds have been at the centre of struggles for power in Zimbabwe since their discovery in 2006.

This book approached water and sanitation as an African gender and human rights issue.

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Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies, writes cyber expert Keenan, and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy.