Society and Social Sciences

Builds on micro-level critiques of transitional justice to debate a more comprehensive alternative at the level of theory and practice.

Moving past theoretical critiques of human rights, this book considers how we might translate situational analyses of torture into effective strategies for preventing it.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Through the use of new analytical tools, this book presents a dynamic, sociocultural view of behavioural regulation in learning contexts.

Offers an alternative picture of the causes of human violence, showing strategies for change through concerted societal action.

Traces the development of Kant''s views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.

Why can''t politicians seem to make policies that will reduce social inequality, even when they acknowledge that inequality is harmful?

Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Sets out state-of-the-art methodological and theoretical advancements to shed light on how bilingual speakers comprehend ambiguous information.

One of the only guides to the prehistoric archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula that engages with key anthropological and archaeological debates.

Analyses the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers to challenge preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages.

Biography of the Abortion Act, exploring how it was shaped by and shaped a changing UK.

New essays on Kant''s complex work, considering its place in his oeuvre and in the history of science.

Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.

Shows how the scientific question, ''Are we automata?

A path-breaking study of the role played by language in the construction of sexual identities in schools.

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

A collection of essays on the foundational themes of freedom and spontaneity in Immanuel Kant''s philosophy.

Presents a shift from the accepted IR standard of theorizing, by analyzing policy decisions made in non-ideal conditions within a broader framework of practical choices.

Explores many aspects of the behaviour, genetics, taxonomy and evolution of this genus and its adaptation to multiple environments.

A new analysis of John Rawls''s theory of distributive justice, focusing on the ways his ideas have both influenced and been misinterpreted by the current egalitarian literature.

Examines the social, legal and cultural challenges navigating the boundaries of ''normal''-''problematic''-''risky'' sexual behaviours among peers.

A comprehensive and novel interpretation of Spinoza''s political writings that reveals the significance of the affects for political life.

Uses public opinion on LGBT equality to show an evolutionary shift toward deliberative democracy in which everyone has a voice.

LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community''s core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - matter of contestation in the democratic thought of classical Athens.

A focused debate on human subjectivity and post-humanism, with a range of theoretical and ethnographic responses to a classic article.

In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world.

Numerous spatial biases influence navigation, interactions, and preferences in our environment.

Analyses the mediation of property rights and social justice through the prism of ''progressive'' constitutional property rights guarantees.

This volume studies the implications of the right to inclusive education in human rights law for disability law, policy and practice.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Explores unspoken beliefs that engender workplace behaviour and legislative/judicial failures that contribute to the “glass ceiling” and workplace inequality.

Highlights the severity of the Civil War''s psychological aftereffects for veterans of the Union army.

Aesthetic philosophy and the arts offer an innovative and attractive approach to enhancing international law in support of peace.

Explores how the Virginia School developed an economics for natural equals in which consent is critical for policy.

Challenges the persistent orthodoxies of the Tokyo tribunal and provides a new framework for evaluating the trial, revealing its importance to international jurisprudence.

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.

Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.

Explores the historical origins and emerging technologies of government profiling and examines law''s role in contemporary technological environments.

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Makes a significant contribution to substantive representation, and examines the various political identities of justices in the American political system.

Explores the moral quandaries of multiple citizenship in the context of broader debates in normative political theory.

Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are ''good''.

Provides the first comparative look into executive decree authority.

Draws on recently declassified and unpublished sources to provide an original and in-depth analysis of Russian and Soviet Iranian studies.

Applying insights from cutting-edge theories of international cooperation, this study brings new understanding to China''s approach to contemporary global challenges.

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.