Human rights, civil rights

This book explores rurality and education in sub-Saharan Africa through a lens of social justice.

This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world.

This book offers a legal and socio-political analysis of the Brazilian Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders.

This interdisciplinary volume critically explores how the ever-increasing use of automated systems is changing policing, criminal justice systems, and military operations at the national and international level.

This book explores the peacebuilding ideas and experiences of Maasai and Gusii women of faith in Kenya.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the many forms of victimization of immigrants, including trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and forced labor; assaulting, robbing and raping; refusing to pay wages; renting illegal living space that violates health codes; and domestic abuse both in general, and in particular, of mail-order brides.

This book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change.

This book reframes gender and education issues from a feminist and capabilities perspective through a multi-generational study of women as teachers.

This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa's least developed countries from a law and economics perspective.

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

This book explores the norms, practices, and main actors in the EU Migration System of Governance (EUMSG).

Moving from a historical and cultural perspective, this book examines the geo-political and socio-economic changes involving the enlarged Mediterranean.

The book analyses the difficulties the International Criminal Court faces with the definition of those persons who are eligible for participating in the proceedings.

Grappling specifically with the norm of sovereignty as responsibility, the book seeks to advance a critical constructivist understanding of norm development in international society, as opposed to the conventional - or liberal - constructivist (mis)understanding that still dominates the debate.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of different dimensions of contemporary food charity.

This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections.

The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume.

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe.

This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas' theories of communicative action, law and  morality.

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

Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased.

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

First introduced in the United States, whistleblower laws have become increasingly popular around the world.

The book offers perspectives from change makers.

This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN's politics of selective humanitarian intervention.

This book provides an insightful analysis of recent developments in immigration, asylum and citizenship law in the broader social and political context.

This book addresses the challenges within teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice, for students studying and academics involved in designing and delivering courses at an undergraduate and postgraduate level.

This book tackles the question of why the United States is so resistant to radical change towards economic justice and peace.

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

This volume offers an empirical perspective on the so-called first generation of human rights.

This book critically examines the making and persistence of impoverished areas at the margins of Romanian cities since the late 1980s.

This book analyses Chile's "e;truth and justice"e; policies implemented between 1990 and 2013.

This edited volume demonstrates how an educational linguistics approach to inquiry is well positioned to identify, examine, and theorize the language and literacy dimensions of refugee-background learners' experiences.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

Writing Constitutions intends to serve as a practical manual for those writing constitutions or interested in their design.

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers.

This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises of the Iranian Revolution.

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions.

This book introduces "e;biolaw"e; as an integrated and distinct field in contemporary legal studies.

This book focuses on the tension between the protection of human rights recognised as jus cogens (peremptory) norms, on the one hand, and the bestowal of immunity on the state and its representatives, on the other, to ascertain how these immunities can be eroded, if not fully abolished, to maintain full protection of jus cogens human rights under international law.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

Pentecostalism is a growing movement in world Christianity.

This book presents a historically and critically nuanced study of George Herbert's biblical poetics.

In this book, Lopez proposes the 'political imaginary' model as a tool to better understand what human rights are in practice, and what they might, or might not, be able to achieve.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region.

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty.

This textbook provides a thorough and systematic overview of human rights law, including the most relevant practice and case law, but also dealing with theoretical issues.

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.