Human rights, civil rights

This volume explores transgender children and internalized body normalization in early childhood education settings, steeped in critical methodologies including post-structuralism, queer theory, and feminist approaches.

This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them.

This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice.

This book provides a critical analysis of how the "e;war on terror"e; affected the civilian population in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This book considers the impact of post 9/11 counter-terrorism laws outside of the counter-terrorism context, a process described here as 'contagion'.

This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing the power relations that exist in contemporary agriculture.

Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses.

Public mistrust of those in authority and failings of public organisations frame disputes over attribution of responsibility between individuals and systems.

This is the first book to outline a basic philosophy of ecology using the standard categories of academic philosophy: metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy.

This collection promises to be a cornerstone in the field of performance studies and human rights activism.

This book addresses key challenges and conflicts arising in extractive industries (mining, oil drilling) concerning the human rights of workers, their families, local communities and other stakeholders.

This book develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and contribute to peace and stability.

This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy - the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others.

This book explores our understanding of school leaders' actions as they work to enact a socially just school culture.

This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict.

This study entails a theoretical reading of the Iranian modern history and follows an interdisciplinary agenda at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, economics, and politics and intends to offer a novel framework for the analysis of socio-economic development in Iran in the modern era.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

This timely anthology brings into sharp relief the extent of violence against women.

This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance.

This textbook presents an integrative approach to thinking about research methods for social justice.

This edited volume explores the Israeli-Turkish relations in the 2000s from a multi-dimensional perspective providing a comparative analysis on the subjects of politics, ideology, civil society, identity, energy, and economic relations.

The ever-increasing use of technology is challenging the current status of the law, bringing about new problems and questions.

The volume gathers theoretical contributions on human rights and global justice in the context of international migration.

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning.

Association for the Study of Higher Education Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2020This book outlines the beginning of student organizing around issues of sexual orientation at Midwestern universities from 1969 to the early 1990s.

This book traces victims' active participatory rights through different procedural stages in adversarial and non-adversarial justice systems, in an attempt to identify what role victims play during criminal proceedings in the domestic setting.

In this book, Brian Lund builds on contemporary housing crisis narratives, which tend to focus on the growth of a younger 'generation rent,' to include the differential effects of class, age, gender, ethnicity and place, across the United Kingdom.

This book explores the potential of international human rights law to resolve one of the gravest human rights violations to have surfaced post 9/11: extraordinary rendition.

This volume sheds new light on the refugees and forced migration at the Horn of Africa and East Africa.

From the Great Depression in the twentieth century to the Great Recession in the twenty-first, systemic banking crises have been a recurring problem for both developing and developed countries.

This book explores how competing worldviews impact on intergroup relations and building a sustainable peace in culturally diverse societies.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at the rise of militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, and especially at the issues of 'why' and 'how' around it.

This powerful reference explores the processes and practices of family systems therapy as conducted in humanitarian situations across the globe.

Nordic law is often referred to as something different from other legal systems.

This edited volume discusses critically discursive claims about the theological foundations connecting Islam to certain manifestations of violent extremism.

This books demonstrates the difficulty of protecting victims of human trafficking from being held liable for crimes they were compelled to commit in the course, or as a consequence, of being trafficked, under current European law.

In this book, Arjun Tremblay considers the future of multiculturalism, contextualised within an ideological and political shift to the right.

This biography tells the story of Theo van Boven's dynamic and courageous leadership to develop UN protection.

This book explores one of the 20th century's most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked.

This book analyzes the impacts on peoples' lives of the largest antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa Familia Program.

This book seeks to understand how to internationalize curriculum without imperializing or imposing the old, colonial, and so-called first-world conceptualizations of education, teaching, and learning.

The idea of the Good Life - of what constitutes human thriving, is, implicitly, the foundation and justification of the law.

This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.

This book examines the 'war on terror' and radicalization from an ontological, non-state centric perspective.

This book presents an important discussion on urbanization and sustainable soil management from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable cities, soil sealing, rehabilitation of contaminated soils, property rights and liability issues, as well as trading systems with regard to land take.

This book conceptualizes Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) as part of a global cosmopolitan agenda, drawing on the work of Jurgen Habermas, and argues that R2P is reflective of a shift towards a more cosmopolitan approach to human protection.