Political control and freedoms

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

Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion - how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict?

This book presents an important discussion on land tenure rights for the effective implementation of sustainable soil management provisions.

This book explores how community influences civic engagement, focusing on the case of Ghana.

This book traces, assesses and compares the history of conscientious objection - in the cultural context of six common law nations - from refusal of military service and a range of similar moral dilemmas, to objecting to abortion, to the current social polarisation surrounding vaccination hesitancy in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

The book discusses discrimination based on sexual orientation in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Constitutional Court of Korea.

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.

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

This handbook presents the roots of symbolic racism as partly in both anti-black antagonism and non-racial conservative attitudes and values, representing a new form of racism independent of older racial and political attitudes.

This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico.

Over the last century, international law has sought to keep pace with sweeping changes that have revolutionised the international community.

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

This book critically explores how police power manifested beyond criminal law into the field of public health during the pandemic.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

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 explores when, why, and how regional organizations adopt and design institutions to promote and protect fundamental standards of democracy, human rights, and rule of law in their member states.

This book focuses on protection needs and new aspects of personality and data protection rights on the Internet, presenting a comprehensive review that discusses and compares international, European and national (Brazilian, German, Pakistani) perspectives.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an international event whose impact has been acutely felt by almost everyone across the globe.

This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism's treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism.

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 revised and updated edition of the 2016 bestselling work sets out the moral arguments for a woman's right to decide the future of her pregnancy.

This book analyses how the system of immigration judicial reviews works in practice, as an area which has, for decades, constituted the majority of judicial review cases and is politically controversial.

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

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

This book examines the ways in which law can be used to structure the return of indigenous sacred cultural heritage to indigenous communities, referred to as repatriation in this volume.

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.

This book examines how urban agriculture (UA) is valued in the sustainable city.

This innovative volume is focused on the relationship between religion on the one hand and political and judicial rights on the other.

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 examines disability hate crime.

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 describes the nature of trafficking in persons in West Africa, focusing on labor and sexual exploitation in the region, and recommends tailor-made solutions established by the Catholic Church in light of governmental authorities' failure to effectively combat this scourge of humanity.

This book critically examines the issues pertaining to the Rome Statute's complementarity principle.

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

This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the context of global bioethics.

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

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 traces and analyses the role of heritage in the urban transformation of the city of Cape Town.

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

This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest.

This book traces the development of Oman's inclusive agreements and highlights their importance for international negotiations, dealing with issues most relevant to humanity's own survival today, nuclear weapons or climate change.

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States' history and its world reputation.

This book addresses the field of populisms from a contemporary perspective.

This timely, relevant text is a comprehensive compendium of critical information about voting in the United States.

This topical book shows that racism by skin color is much more embedded and prevalent in the modern world than racism by race.

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

This book discusses the multilayered legal structures concerning the regulation of crimes under international law.

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.

Mobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse draws from various disciplines-such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought-to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and domination of oppressive systems of our spatial lives.