Human rights, civil rights

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people's struggles for rights to water have intensified.

There is an emerging consensus that what is projected as democratic governance and justice in Africa requires a re-calibration, in particular, in relation to the constitutive demos, human rights, the realisation of commitments at various governance levels and the convergence between these ideations.

This book challenges readers to imagine social entrepreneurship as an innovative, creative model for building justice and sustainability.

This book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus.

The book rethinks the means of harmonization of prima facie norm conflicts in light of the multitude of international agreements across regimes.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book critically looks at the tensions between the promise to transform education through the use of digital technology and the tendency to utilize digital technology in instrumental and technical ways.

This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective.

This book examines the global campaign to end hunger and malnutrition.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice.

This book contends that the impasse of the Left today is in part, a result of an anarchist 'common sense' among activists.

This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico.

At a moment when both think tanks and experts are being questioned, significant policy and technology disruptions have called into question the value and efficacy of policy advice.

The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

This book applies the dynamic field of transitional justice to conflict resolution in Israel/Palestine.

This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country.

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

This book draws upon empirical data to offer a fresh and unique perspective on hate crime victimisation, using transphobic hate crime as a case study.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

This book explains why there is a pronounced disjuncture between R2P's habitual invocation and its actual influence, and why it will not make the transformative progress its proponents claim.

This book explores the little-known world of scrappers and metal thieves.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities.

The book uses Athens as a case study to identify the key features of urban anti-poverty policies in Greece and to discuss them in relation to policy developments in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe.

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect.

The book offers a comprehensive perspective on the highly topical issue of protecting and promoting labour standards in international economic law and the globalized economy.

This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level security concerns.

This book is an innovative and critical contribution to the study of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people in the context of Europe.

This book builds on recent research exploring the intersection between language and social justice, using the multilingual context of Hawai'i as a case study.

This volume analyses criminal procedural issues from a European perspective, particularly in connection with EU law and ECHR law.

This volume examines the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on IDPs in Africa.

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.

Microaggressions and Modern Racism: Endurance and Evolution explores the causes, manifestations, and consequences of microaggressions, macroaggressions, and modern racism within society.

This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties.

This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South.

This book explores and discusses emerging perspectives of Ubuntu from the vantage point of "e;ordinary"e; people and connects it to human rights and decolonizing discourses.

This volume presents the most recent joint study of the research group Religion and Human Rights.

This book presents a comprehensive review of fundamental rights issues that are currently in the spotlight.

This volume sheds new light upon the role of victims in the aftermath of violence.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

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 presents a comprehensive overview of findings from the Children's Worlds project - the most extensive and diverse study to have been conducted globally on children's own views of their lives.

This volume brings together innovative work from emerging and leading scholars in international law and political science to critically examine the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS).

This book introduces Cyber Justice as a viable approach for promoting good governance based on human rights norms in the internet.

This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological.