Human rights, civil rights

Marcha is a multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago.

Presenting detailed portraits by leading authorities of the politics of human rights across the major regions of the globe, A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights reveals human rights to be a force as powerful as capitalist markets and technological innovation in shaping global governance.

This book outlines the history of same-sex marriage, explaining how politics and religion have intersected to decide and control who can legally marry.

The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion.

This book, the first of a two volume study, provides an historical account of complaints against Metropolitan police officers between formation of the force in 1829 and codification of remedies for misconduct under the Police Act 1964.

This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South.

The goal of the work is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in Deuteronomy.

In the decade since the financial crisis of 2008, governments around the world have struggled to develop strategies to stabilize precarious markets, encourage growth, and combat mounting wealth inequality.

The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a "e;land degradation-neutral world.

To date, most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive.

Between the late 1970s and the mid 1980s, Guatemala was torn by a civil war which came to be known as La Violencia.

A legal-theoretical account of collective rights, grounded in the normative-moral view of ''value collectivism''.

This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries.

In a world of violence in which religion seems to play an increasing role, the understanding of the Religions of the Book, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is highly important.

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences.

This book investigates the impact of Christian nationalism on democracy in Ghana, arguing that proponents of a specific Christian worldview seek to remake the country according to their values and beliefs.

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19.

There is growing judicial, academic and political interest in the concept of common law constitutional rights.

Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems.

Verwundbar zu sein ist wahrlich nicht immer angenehm.

This book traces the transformation of indigenous politics in Mexico, linking indigenous identity directly to state formation.

In his most famous Sermon, Jesus announces a Kingdom so counterintuitive that it appears upside down in contrast to conventional wisdom.

The South Seas in the Modern World (1942) surveys the economic, social, educational and strategic problems facing the islands of the Pacific dependencies on the eve of the Second World War.

Faith-based organisations (FBOs) have long been recognised as having an advantage in delivering programs and interventions amongst communities of the same faith.

How does one revitalize democracy in times of crisis?

Many Americans are turning away from religion.

This book advocates a holistic reform of the current monetary and financial system dealing with the issues of money creation, central banks, loans, stock markets, tax justice, pension security and the international monetary system - "e;Bretton Woods II"e;.

Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate.

Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices.

This interdisciplinary study investigates what the Byzantines believed about the fate of the soul after death.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect norm in world politics, which aims to end mass atrocities against civilians.

'Free speech' has become central to discussions about racism, and is increasingly weaponised against anti-racist movements.

Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other.

Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

A comprehensive and stimulating examination of how the migration of women affects attitudes in receiving countries, among the women themselves, and how changing women's attitudes shapes their relations with men and between generations within ethnic groups.

The growth of international law in the post-World War II era stemmed partly from the belief that universal norms would make life for the entire world's population safer, more equitable, and more conducive to each person's acquisition of basic material needs.

Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of land and the West have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy.

This book analyses the role of businesses in regulating and influencing the exercise of free speech on the internet.

By questioning how and when a Muslim community emerged in colonial India, the book unsettles the teleological explanation of the Partition of India and the making of Pakistan.

In the Caucasus region, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their powerful neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU negotiate their future policies and spheres of influence.

This book provides an in-depth overview of what is currently happening in the field of Law and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Debates about whether the Wahhabist practice of face-veiling for women should be banned in modern liberal states tend to generate more heat than light.

Captures the essence of the multi-layered subject of human rights law in a way that is authoritative, critical and scholarly.

Esta obra se centra en el analisis de la crisis del constitucionalismo, estudio que transita por los regimenes autoritarios, hasta anclar en el constitucionalismo erigido en la postguerra mundial.

This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment.

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman?

There is an increasingly intense interest in political theology amongst contemporary scholars and students.

'Outstanding' JOHN PRESTON | 'Extraordinary' THE TIMES | 'A master-storyteller' ANDREW ROBERTS | 'Vivid and compelling' IRISH TIMES | 'Psychologically shrewd' IRISH INDEPENDENT | 'A page-turning finale' HISTORY TODAY | 'Superb' TELEGRAPH *5 STARS*Celebrated reformer and proud nationalist, romantic radical and vilified traitor: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century s most complex and compelling individuals.