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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Political oppression & persecution > General

The Global Police State (Hardcover): William I. Robinson The Global Police State (Hardcover)
William I. Robinson
R2,724 Discovery Miles 27 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'. Today, governments systematically exclude sections of their populations from society through heavy-handed policing. But it doesn't always go to plan. William I. Robinson exposes the nature and dynamics of this out-of-control system, arguing for the urgency of creating a movement capable of overthrowing it. The global police state uses a variety of ingenious methods of control, including mass incarceration, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrants and refugees, and the repression of environmental activists. Movements have emerged to combat the increasing militarization, surveillance and social cleansing; however many of them appeal to a moral sense of social justice rather than addressing its root - global capitalism. Using shocking data which reveals how far capitalism has become a system of repression, Robinson argues that the emerging megacities of the world are becoming the battlegrounds where the excluded and the oppressed face off against the global police state.

My Dearest Dido - The Holodomor Story (Paperback): Marion Mutala My Dearest Dido - The Holodomor Story (Paperback)
Marion Mutala; Contributions by Olha Tkachenko
R395 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Rights of Man (Paperback): Thomas Paine The Rights of Man (Paperback)
Thomas Paine
R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ground Kisser (Paperback): Lisa Worthey Smith The Ground Kisser (Paperback)
Lisa Worthey Smith; As told by Thanh Duong Boyer
R415 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R64 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Marouf Hasian, Jr. Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Marouf Hasian, Jr.
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant to acknowledge genocides. The author departs from traditional studies of the work of Raphael Lemkin or U.N. definitions of genocide so that readers can examine genocide recognition as a political act that is bound up in partial perceptions and political motivations. The study looks at the Tasmanian genocide, Al-Nakba, and several other tragic events. It also looks at the ways that these historical and contemporary debates about colonial genocides are related to today's conversations about apologies and other restorative justice acts. This work will be of interest to a wide range of audiences including researchers, scholars, graduate students, and policy makers in the fields of political history, genocide studies, and political science.

Finding The Woman Within - How To Thrive In A Male-Dominated Society (Paperback): Nosipho Siwisa-Damasane Finding The Woman Within - How To Thrive In A Male-Dominated Society (Paperback)
Nosipho Siwisa-Damasane
R245 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R53 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Nosipho Siwisa-Damasane is a black female success story in modern South Africa. From humble apartheid-era beginnings in Peddie in the Ciskei, she now heads up one of the leading coal export terminals in the world and influences the upper strata of corporate South Africa. But stories like hers are all too rare, even in an age of increasing female empowerment. Passionate about women (and youth) development in Africa, she wants to hasten the change and see more women thrive.

In Finding The Woman Within, Siwisa-Damasane recounts the struggles of her upbringing and the lessons she has learnt in her path to the top, from the challenges of completing her schooling after becoming a teenaged mother to managing corporate dynamics when she’s the only woman in the room.

The book offers simple lessons for transformational leadership from a woman in a man’s world covering, among other topics, the importance of personal responsibility, inclusive leadership, employee engagement, positive management of corporate politics, work-life balance and continuous learning.

Struggle and Hope - Reflections on the Recent History of the Transkeian People (Paperback): Mda Mda Mda Mda Struggle and Hope - Reflections on the Recent History of the Transkeian People (Paperback)
Mda Mda Mda Mda; Edited by Allan Zinn
R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Race Talk in the South African Media (Paperback): Gawie Botma Race Talk in the South African Media (Paperback)
Gawie Botma
R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Keeping Faith With Hope - The Challenge of Israel-Palestine (Paperback): Harry Hagopian Keeping Faith With Hope - The Challenge of Israel-Palestine (Paperback)
Harry Hagopian; Foreword by Rami G. Khouri; Edited by Simon Barrow
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reflections in prison (Paperback): Mac Maharaj Reflections in prison (Paperback)
Mac Maharaj; Edited by Mac Maharaj, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, …
R320 R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Save R64 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In the first three months of 1976, during his imprisonment on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela wrote the bulk of his autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom". This was an illegal act, and the manuscript had to be smuggled out by fellow prisoner Mac Maharaj on his release that year. Maharaj used the opportunity to ask Mandela and other political prisoners to write essays about South Africa's political future. These were smuggled out with Mandela's autobiography, and are published, 25 years later, in this book.
These essays provide a "snapshot" of the thinking of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and other prominent Robben Island prisoners before the 1976 Soweto uprising changed the face of politics in South Africa. As such they provide an insight into our history. Each essay is preceded by a biographical introduction and a sketch of the author specially commissioned for this volume.

Sara - Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Sakine Cansiz Sara - Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Sakine Cansiz; Translated by Janet Biehl
R2,727 Discovery Miles 27 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz (codenamed 'Sara') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary's harrowing years in a Turkish prison, following her arrest in 1979 at the age of 21. Jailed for more than a decade for her activities as a founder and leader of the Kurdish freedom movement, she faced brutal conditions and was subjected to interrogation and torture. Remarkably, the story she tells here is foremost one of resistance, with courageous episodes of collective struggle behind bars including hunger strikes and attempts at escape. Along the way she also presents vivid portraits of her fellow prisoners and militants, a snapshot of the Turkish left in the 1980s, a scathing indictment of Turkey's war on Kurdish people - and even an unlikely love story. The first prison memoir by a Kurdish woman to be published in English, this is an extraordinary document of an extraordinary life. Translated by Janet Biehl.

Permanent Record (Paperback): Edward Snowden Permanent Record (Paperback)
Edward Snowden 1
R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.

Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online - a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.

Trauma and Resilience - Armenians in Turkey (Paperback): Raffi Bedrosyan Trauma and Resilience - Armenians in Turkey (Paperback)
Raffi Bedrosyan
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Poland's Constitutional Breakdown (Hardcover): Wojciech Sadurski Poland's Constitutional Breakdown (Hardcover)
Wojciech Sadurski
R1,434 Discovery Miles 14 340 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Since 2015, Poland's populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been dismantling the major checks and balances of the Polish state and subordinating the courts, the civil service, and the media to the will of the executive. Political rights have been radically restricted, and the Party has captured the entire state apparatus. The speed and depth of these antidemocratic movements took many observers by surprise: until now, Poland was widely regarded as an example of a successful transitional democracy. Poland's anti-constitutional breakdown poses three questions that this book sets out to answer: What, exactly, has happened since 2015? Why did it happen? And what are the prospects for a return to liberal democracy? These answers are formulated against a backdrop of current worldwide trends towards populism, authoritarianism, and what is sometimes called 'illiberal democracy'. As this book argues, the Polish variant of 'illiberal democracy' is an oxymoron. By undermining the separation of powers, the PiS concentrates all power in its own hands, rendering any democratic accountability illusory. There is, however, no inevitability in these anti-democratic trends: this book considers a number of possible remedies and sources of hope, including intervention by the European Union.

The Anthropocene Chronicles (Paperback): Saranne Bensusan, Emma Pullar, Carmen Radtke, Rachael Howard, Nick Jackson, Fiona... The Anthropocene Chronicles (Paperback)
Saranne Bensusan, Emma Pullar, Carmen Radtke, Rachael Howard, Nick Jackson, …
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Communication in the Age of Trump (Paperback, New edition): Arthur S. Hayes Communication in the Age of Trump (Paperback, New edition)
Arthur S. Hayes
R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Franklin Delano Roosevelt used radio fireside chats to connect with millions of ordinary Americans. The highly articulate and telegenic John F. Kennedy was dubbed the first TV president. Ronald Reagan, the so-called Great Communicator, had a conversational way of speaking to the common man. Bill Clinton left his mark on media industries by championing and signing the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. Barack Obama was the first social media presidential campaigner and president. And now there is President Donald J. Trump. Because so much of what has made Donald Trump's candidacy and presidency unconventional has been about communication-how he has used Twitter to convey his political messages and how the news media and voters have interpreted and responded to his public words and persona-21 communication and media scholars examine the Trump phenomenon in Communication in the Age of Trump. This collection of essays and studies, suitable for communication and political science students and scholars, covers the 2016 presidential campaign and the first year of the Trump presidency.

The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust - A Comparative History of Persecution (Paperback): Kitty Millet The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust - A Comparative History of Persecution (Paperback)
Kitty Millet
R1,222 Discovery Miles 12 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and compares and contrasts this analysis with the experiences of people who have been colonized or enslaved. Using numerous victim accounts and a wide range of primary sources, the book moves away from the 'continuity thesis', with its insistence on colonial intent as the reason for victimization in relation to other historical examples of mass political violence, to look at the victim experience on its own terms. By affording each constituent case study its own distinctive aspects, The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust allows for a more enriching comparison of victim experience to be made that respects each group of victims in their uniqueness. It is an important, innovative volume for all students of the Holocaust, genocide and the history of mass political violence.

The Rohingyas - Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide (Paperback, Revised ed.): Azeem Ibrahim The Rohingyas - Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Azeem Ibrahim
R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have been visible for years. For generations, this Muslim group has suffered routine discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion, and other abuses by the Buddhist majority. As horrifying massacres have unfolded in 2017, international human rights groups have accused the regime of complicity in an ethnic cleansing campaign against them. Authorities refuse to recognise the Rohingyas as one of Myanmar's 135 'national races', denying them citizenship rights in the country of their birth and severely restricting many aspects of ordinary life, from marriage to free movement. In this updated edition, Azeem Ibrahim chronicles the events leading up to the current, final cleansing of the Rohingya population, and issues a clarion call to protect a vulnerable, little known Muslim minority. He makes a powerful appeal to use the lessons of the twentieth century to stop this genocide in the twenty-first.

Underground America - Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Paperback): Voice of Witness Underground America - Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Paperback)
Voice of Witness; Edited by Peter Orner; Foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

They arrive from around the world for countless reasons. Many come simply to make a living. Others are fleeing persecution in their native countries. Millions of immigrants risk deportation and imprisonment by living in the U.S. without legal status. They are living underground, with little protection from exploitation at the hands of human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America, from the Voice of Witness series, presents the remarkable oral histories of women and men struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S.

Mania for Freedom - American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover): John Mac Kilgore Mania for Freedom - American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
John Mac Kilgore
R2,925 Discovery Miles 29 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote RalphWaldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an innocuoustruism today, the claim would have been controversial in the antebellumUnited States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested term associated withreligious fanaticism and poetic inspiration, revolutionary politics and imaginativeexcess. In analysing the language of enthusiasm in philosophy, religion,politics, and literature, John Mac Kilgore uncovers a tradition of enthusiasmlinked to a politics of emancipation. The dissenting voices chronicledhere fought against what they viewed as tyranny while using their writings toforge international or antinationalistic political affiliations. Pushing his analysis across national boundaries, Kilgore contends thatAmerican enthusiastic literature, unlike the era's concurrent sentimentalcounterpart, stressed democratic resistance over domestic reform as it navigatedthe global political sphere. By analysing a range of canonical Americanauthors-including William Apess, Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe,and Walt Whitman-Kilgore places their works in context with the causes,wars, and revolutions that directly or indirectly engendered them. In doingso, he makes a unique and compelling case for enthusiasm's centrality in theshaping of American literary history.

Anarchism and Other Essays (Paperback): Emma Goldman Anarchism and Other Essays (Paperback)
Emma Goldman
R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Born A Crime - And Other Stories (Paperback): Trevor Noah Born A Crime - And Other Stories (Paperback)
Trevor Noah 1
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born A Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Mania for Freedom - American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War (Paperback): John Mac Kilgore Mania for Freedom - American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War (Paperback)
John Mac Kilgore
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote RalphWaldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an innocuoustruism today, the claim would have been controversial in the antebellumUnited States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested term associated withreligious fanaticism and poetic inspiration, revolutionary politics and imaginativeexcess. In analysing the language of enthusiasm in philosophy, religion,politics, and literature, John Mac Kilgore uncovers a tradition of enthusiasmlinked to a politics of emancipation. The dissenting voices chronicledhere fought against what they viewed as tyranny while using their writings toforge international or antinationalistic political affiliations. Pushing his analysis across national boundaries, Kilgore contends thatAmerican enthusiastic literature, unlike the era's concurrent sentimentalcounterpart, stressed democratic resistance over domestic reform as it navigatedthe global political sphere. By analysing a range of canonical Americanauthors-including William Apess, Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe,and Walt Whitman-Kilgore places their works in context with the causes,wars, and revolutions that directly or indirectly engendered them. In doingso, he makes a unique and compelling case for enthusiasm's centrality in theshaping of American literary history.

The Right to Self-Determination - The Sri Lankan Tamil National Question (Paperback): Helena Whall The Right to Self-Determination - The Sri Lankan Tamil National Question (Paperback)
Helena Whall
R694 Discovery Miles 6 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Citizen Killings - Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk (Paperback): Deane-Peter Baker Citizen Killings - Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk (Paperback)
Deane-Peter Baker
R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'. Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Peter Baker argues that life-or-death policy decisions of this kind should be driven first and foremost by a recognition of the key limitations that a commitment to political liberalism places on the state, particularly the requirement to respect citizens' right to life and the principle of liberal neutrality. Where these principles come into tension Baker shows that they can in some cases be defused by way of a reasonableness test, and in other cases addressed through the application of what he calls the 'risk of harm principle'. The book also explores the question of what measures citizens and other states might legitimately take in response to states that fail to implement morally appropriate policies regarding citizen killings.

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