Human rights, civil rights

This book discusses the socio-legal tax state and its relationship to development, inequality and the transnational.

What kind of a world is one in which border security is understood as necessary?

Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue.

This edited volume questions the widespread resort to illiberal security practices by contemporary liberal regimes since 9/11, and argues that counter-terrorism is embedded into the very logic of the fields of politics and security.

This book examines the simultaneous protection of fundamental rights by various norms and jurisdictional organs, focussing on the multilevel protection of the principle of legality in Criminal Law.

This edited volume examines the development and challenges of governance, democracy, and human rights in Africa.

This book focuses on how Indonesian civil society organisations interact with ASEAN to shape human rights institutionalisation in the region.

The book assesses emerging powers' influence on international economic law and analyses whether their rhetoric of reforming this 'unjust' order translates into concrete reforms.

This book considers refugee protection mandates and addresses how legal scholarship can articulate a comprehensive and humane response to the contemporary refugee problem.

Volume 10 of the EYIEL focusses on the relationship between transnational labour law and international economic law on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Inspired by the works of Professor Marcelo Neves, in this book colleagues come together to explore how their research has been influenced by non-European and post-colonial approaches.

This book explores the role of gender in the recognition of an individual's legal capacity.

This book addresses contemporary debates on civil disobedience in Islam within the rich Sunni tradition, especially during the height of the non-violent people revolution in various Arab countries, popularly known as the Arab Spring.

This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.

This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

This book explores the agency of Jinn, the so-called "e;demons of Islam"e;.

Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to question and reimagine the concept of community engagement, this collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous, creative participatory research methods designed to improve well-being at both the individual and societal level.

Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European Union concerning the rights of and safeguards for suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings.

Handeln, Personsein, Menschenwürde und zahlreiche Fragen der Angewandten Ethik – das ist das weite Spektrum dieser Festschrift und auch des Denkens von Ralf Stoecker, dem sie gewidmet ist.

This book introduces political science of religion - a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science.

This volume looks at how courts and the police handle racial discrimination in Europe.

This book seeks to understand white conservative Christians' support for Donald Trump, using their own words.

The book grapples with one of the most difficult questions confronting the contemporary world: the problem of the other, which includes ethical, political, and metaphysical aspects.

This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action.

This book explores justice 'on the ground' in Southern African communities, and in particular the roles that women play in these processes.

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship.

This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an "e;ecumenical winter,"e; affirms the view that we are actually moving into a "e;new ecumenical spring.

This book introduces the Original Nation scholarship to examine the historical genealogy of the nation's struggles against the state.

The book uses Chicago as a case study to examine the cultural politics surrounding neoliberal education policy in general and the concomitant alterations to democratic practice in particular.

This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity.

This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him.

This book considers how the termination of life might be accepted in the view of a general obligation to protect life.

"e;Conceptually and empirically, this is the most thoughtful analysis of the role of EU's peace missions I have read so far.

This edited volume assesses the progress that sub-Saharan African countries have made towards gender equality and offers strategies that can be used to empower African women to contribute to the fulfilment of the United Nations' (UN) 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This volume presents a detailed synthesis of the historical, present-day and future state of service delivery in South Africa.

This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority.

Short-term study abroad experiences are on the rise across social work programs.

This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'etre.

This book provides a roadmap for how police services can address incivility in the workplace and become more inclusive from the inside out.

This book brings together literature, empirical research findings from two projects, and policy analysis to examine how some forces in England have adopted the approach of treating crimes against sex workers as hate crimes.

This book explores a new way of doing diplomacy through the engagement with non-governmental organizations, here referred to as hybrid diplomacy.

This book deepens readers' knowledge and understanding of the nature of domestic violence and sexual abuse involving male same-sex partners, and of dating violence against gay men and related issues in the European Union (EU).

This book examines disability hate crime.

What if we could change the conditions in post-conflict/post-authoritarian countries to make transitional justice work better?

This book looks at the COVID-19 pandemic and its likely aftermath through a four-dimensional prism - aspirations, emotions, thoughts, and sensations to understand human behavior.