In Copts and Muslims, Jack Tajer presents a controversial study of Egyptian history from the Arab conquest to 1922, addressing the political, social, religious, and spiritual dimensions of Muslim-Coptic relations.
This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights.
Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.
Historic littoral cities and sites of Southeast Asia that grew along the coast, seascapes, and the confluence of rivers as evolvements from Indigenous settlements linked the dynamism of trade and confluence of cultures, have defied categorization and characterization.
This thought-provoking study examines the backstory and enduring contemporary effects of Australia''s claim to an absolute right to exclude foreigners.
This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights.
Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.
LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community''s core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.
Explores unspoken beliefs that engender workplace behaviour and legislative/judicial failures that contribute to the “glass ceiling” and workplace inequality.
This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.
A cutting-edge description of subnational democracy combined with a ground breaking explanation for why some regions are much less democratic than others.
Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.