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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights

Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History (Hardcover): Stanley Engerman, Jacob Metzer Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History (Hardcover)
Stanley Engerman, Jacob Metzer
R5,411 Discovery Miles 54 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities, and religions. These disputes raise a number of interesting issues related to the nature of land regimes and to their economic and political implications. The studies drawn together in this key volume explore these and related issues for a broad variety of countries and times. They illuminate the diverse causes of ethno-national land disputes, and the different forms of adjustment and accommodation to the power differences between the contesting groups. This is done within a framework outlined by the editors in their analytical overview, which offers contours for comparative examinations of such disputes, past and present. Providing conceptual and factual analyses of comparative nature and wealth of empirical material (both historical and contemporary), this book will appeal to economic historians, economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and all scholars interested in issues concerning ethno-nationality and land rights in historical perspective.

Fighting for Human Rights (Hardcover): Paul Gready Fighting for Human Rights (Hardcover)
Paul Gready
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Introduction Paul Gready 1. Human rights and global civil society: on the law of unintended effects Richard Falk 2. Civil society and the landmine ban Don Hubert 3. Debt cancellation and civil society: a case study of Jubilee 2000 Nick Buxton 4. The Pinochet case: the catalyst for deepening democracy in Chile? Ann Matear 5. Civil society and the campaign for the International Criminal Court William Pace 6. Civil society and environmental justice Carolyn Stephens, Simon Bullock and Alister Scott 7. 'The most debilitating discrimination of all': civil society's campaign for access to treatment for AIDS Bridget Sleep 8. Climb every mountain: civil society and the conflict diamonds campaign Ian Smillie

Exporting Virtue? - China's International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping (Hardcover): Pitman B. Potter Exporting Virtue? - China's International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping (Hardcover)
Pitman B. Potter
R2,095 Discovery Miles 20 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

China's rise to prosperity on the international stage has been accompanied by increased tensions with international standards of law and governance. Exporting Virtue? examines China's internationalizing of PRC human rights policy and practice as an example of its international assertiveness, and considers the implications. China's international human rights activism is couched in terms of virtue but manifested as authoritarianism, inviting scholars and policy makers around the world to engage critically with the issue. Exporting Virtue? investigates the challenges that China's human rights orthodoxy poses to international norms and institutions, offering normative and institutional analysis and providing suggestions for policy response.

Refugees, Democracy and the Law - Political Rights at the Margins of the State (Paperback): Dana Schmalz Refugees, Democracy and the Law - Political Rights at the Margins of the State (Paperback)
Dana Schmalz
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law. The work introduces readers to the evolution of refugee law and its core issues today, as well as central lines in the debate about democracy and migration. Bringing together these fields, the book links theoretical considerations and legal analysis. Based on its specific understanding of the refugee concept, it offers a reconstruction of refugee law as constantly confronted with the question of how to secure rights to those who have no voice in the democratic process. In this reconstruction, the book highlights, on the one hand, the need to look beyond the legal regulations for understanding the challenges and gaps in refugee protection. It is also the structural lack of political voice, the book argues, which shapes the refugee's situation. On the other hand, the book opposes a view of law as mere expression of power and points out the dynamics within the law which reflect endeavors towards mitigating exclusion. The book will be essential reading for academics and researchers working in the areas of migration and refugee law, legal theory and political theory.

International Attention and the Protection of Human Rights Defenders - Campaigning for Agents of Change (Hardcover): Janika... International Attention and the Protection of Human Rights Defenders - Campaigning for Agents of Change (Hardcover)
Janika Spannagel
R4,056 Discovery Miles 40 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings. It examines the untold origin story of the ‘human rights defender’ term and its uptake among international advocacy organizations, which coalesced with the rise of a theory of human rights change centered around the support for local actors. Rich with analyses of original qualitative and quantitative data, the author spells out this theory of change and tests its assumptions in two case studies: the individual casework of the UN special procedures, and the case of Tunisia under Ben Ali. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, of the United Nations, and more broadly of international relations and politics in general, and to practitioners working with human rights defenders at risk.

The Law in 60 Seconds - A Pocket Guide to Your Rights (Paperback, Main): Christian Weaver The Law in 60 Seconds - A Pocket Guide to Your Rights (Paperback, Main)
Christian Weaver
R236 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R12 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'An indispensable guide to the law and your rights, giving you a lawyer in your pocket for a multitude of legal questions and problems that crop up in everyday life. ... Exceptional' - The Secret Barrister 'Brilliant and generous and very necessary' - Sarah Langford, author of In Your Defense 'A triumph of a book. It should form the basis for a national curriculum in law.' - Joanna Hardy-Susskind From junior barrister Christian Weaver comes an indispensable guide to your basic legal rights. We engage with the law every day: when we leave the house, and even when we don't, we're bound by rules we don't even notice. Until they're used against us. Knowing our rights means taking control of our lives. In this handbook, lawyer Christian Weaver brings together everything you need to know to claim your space in the world. Whether you are arguing with your landlord, looking for a refund, going to a protest or being harassed, this essential guide illuminates the full power of the law, and arms you with your rights, including: - in a relationship - at home - out on the street - when you've spent money, owe it or are owed it From housing to relationships, police conduct to travel, this guide will give you the confidence and clarity to take control in any situation.

From Civil to Human Rights - Dialogues on Law and Humanities in the United States and Europe (Paperback): Helle Porsdam From Civil to Human Rights - Dialogues on Law and Humanities in the United States and Europe (Paperback)
Helle Porsdam
R1,116 Discovery Miles 11 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Europeans have attempted for some time to develop a human rights talk and now European intellectuals are talking about the need to construct 'European narratives'. This book illustrates that these narratives will emphasize a political and cultural vision for a multi-ethnic and more cosmopolitan Europe. The narratives evolve around human rights, partly in the hope that they might function as a cultural glue in an increasingly multi-ethnic Europe, and partly because they are intimately connected with that part of enlightenment thinking that sought to promote democracy and the rule of law. Helle Porsdam discusses the development of human rights as a discourse of atonement for Europeans - a discourse which has the potential to become a shared, transatlantic discourse. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be an invaluable research tool for postgraduate students and scholars within the fields of law, history, political science and international relations.

Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America (Paperback): Susan Eva Eckstein, Timothy P Wickham-Crowley Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America (Paperback)
Susan Eva Eckstein, Timothy P Wickham-Crowley
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The authoritative collection for exploring the broad span of social rights struggles in Latin America. This pioneering book explores how, when, and why a broad range of groups have struggled to secure a range of social rights in Latin America. Essays come from a range of scholars in a variety of disciplines and tackle the most pressing concerns in Latin American societies. The essays present Latin Americans' own views, deprivations and struggles over rights. It is the first book to portray in rich and nuanced detail the different Latin American class, ethnic, racial, gender and sexual minority perceptions of their social rights and struggles to secure greater justice.
Individual topics include the environment, AIDS, workers' rights, women's movements, citizenship, indigenous rights, tourism, and many more. With all original essays from top scholars in the field, this is an invaluable resource for exploring and understanding the intricacies and diversities.

The Globalization of Contentious Politics - The Amazonian Indigenous Rights Movement (Hardcover): Pamela Martin The Globalization of Contentious Politics - The Amazonian Indigenous Rights Movement (Hardcover)
Pamela Martin
R3,910 Discovery Miles 39 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This work argues that due to domestic blockages presented to them in their respective countries, the Amazonian indigenous peoples organized via transnational networks. Through a comparative historical analysis of five Ecuadorian Amazonian indigenous organisations and two transnational Amazonian social movement organisations, the author illustrates the process of transnational collective action and its outcomes.

Crimes Against Humanity - The Struggle for Global Justice (Paperback, Fourth Edition): Geoffrey Robertson Crimes Against Humanity - The Struggle for Global Justice (Paperback, Fourth Edition)
Geoffrey Robertson
R1,261 R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Save R230 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in international courts for genocide, torture, and mass murder. Since then, fearsome figures such as Charles Taylor, Laurent Gbagbo, and Ratko Mladic have been tried in international criminal court, and a global movement has rallied around the human rights framework of justice. Any such legal framework requires constant evolution in order to stay relevant, and this newly revised and expanded volume brings the conversation up to date. In substantial new chapters, Robertson covers the protection of war correspondents, the problem of piracy, crimes against humanity in Syria, nuclear armament in Iran, and other challenges we are grappling with today. He criticizes the Obama administration's policies around "targeted killing" and the trials of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other "high value" detainees. By rendering a complex debate accessible, Robertson once again provides an essential guide for anyone looking to understand human rights and how to work toward a more complete blueprint for justice.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hegel and the Philosophy of Right (Hardcover): Dudley Knowles Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hegel and the Philosophy of Right (Hardcover)
Dudley Knowles
R2,881 Discovery Miles 28 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks painlessly introduce students to the classic works of philosophy. Each GuideBook considers a major philosopher and a key area of their philosophy by focusing upon an important text - situating the philosopher and the work in a historical context, considering the text in question and assessing the philosopher's contribution to contemporary thought. Hegel and the Philosophy of Right introduces and assesses:
* Hegel's life and the background of the Philosophy of Right
* The ideas and text of the Philosophy of Right
* The continuing importance of Hegel's work to philosophy and political thought.

Turkey's Engagement with Global Women's Human Rights (Paperback): Nuket Kardam Turkey's Engagement with Global Women's Human Rights (Paperback)
Nuket Kardam
R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Examining the rise of global women's human rights and their interpretation and application to Turkey, Nuket Kardam provides an in-depth study that applies global norms - including women's empowerment, overcoming violence against women, and gender and good governance - to a specific locale in order to examine events post application. The volume examines whether a gender equality regime exists and looks into the Turkish attempt at compliance. Moreover, it analyzes the tension between abstract universalism, Western enlightenment values, and local values and identities, including the role of Islam regarding women's rights. This groundbreaking study also includes research on the women's movement in Turkey, its discourses and its relationship with the state from the 1980s onwards, during which time multilateral and bilateral donors, and the European Union came to exert more influence, and new civil society partnerships were formed with the state.

The Black Panther Party - Service to the People Programs (Paperback): Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation The Black Panther Party - Service to the People Programs (Paperback)
Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation; Edited by David Hilliard; Foreword by Cornel West
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Black Panther Party" represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. The Party pioneered free social service programs that are now in the mainstream of American life.

The Party's Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation, operated with Oakland's Children's Hospital, was among the nation's first such testing programs. Its Free Breakfast Program served as a model for national programs. Other initiatives included free clinics, grocery giveaways, school and education programs, senior programs, and legal aid programs.

Published here for the first time in book form, "The Black Panther Party" makes the case that the programs' methods are viable models for addressing the persistent, basic social injustices and economic problems of today's American cities and suburbs.

Civil Resistance and Democracy Promotion - A Comparative Study Analysis (Hardcover): Michael Schulz Civil Resistance and Democracy Promotion - A Comparative Study Analysis (Hardcover)
Michael Schulz
R3,615 Discovery Miles 36 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines transnational civil society-based democracy-promoting resistance activities in Asia in a global era, focusing on the cases of Myanmar and Palestine. The work contributes to our understanding of the nexus between globalization, power and democracy by examining: (i) the ways in which globalization/global governance are influencing various resistance practices of the civil societies in Myanmar and Palestine, and what this means for local democracy promotion; and (ii) the ways in which these two civil societies influence and have a democracy-promoting impact on their respective communities. It is guided by the overarching question of how civil society-based resistance contributes to local democracy in Myanmar and Palestine. The book is structured as follows: both civil resistance cases begin with an overview of each country’s non-violent resistance history, and the findings are then presented for the two cases, i.e., the pro-democracy movements in the Saffron uprising in Myanmar and the Bil’in village struggle against the Israeli Security Barrier plans to build through their farmlands. Then follows a presentation of the life-story interview made with two members from the respective campaigns. A concluding chapter proposes some new theoretical insights for how civil resistance can impact on democracy. The book empirically and theoretically contributes to our understanding of how civil society-based resistance and democracy interrelate in a global era. This book will be of much interest to students of civil resistance, democracy, Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies and international relations in general.

The Radical Women's Press of the 1850's - Radical Women's Press of the 1850s (Hardcover): Ann Russo, Cherise... The Radical Women's Press of the 1850's - Radical Women's Press of the 1850s (Hardcover)
Ann Russo, Cherise Kramarae
R5,967 Discovery Miles 59 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


First published in 1991. The volume reprints excerpts from six radical feminist journals of this crucial decade:The Lily, the Genius of Liberty, the Pioneer and Women's Advocate, the Una, The Woman's advocate and The Sybil

Before the Vote was Won (Hardcover): Jane Lewis Before the Vote was Won (Hardcover)
Jane Lewis
R1,793 Discovery Miles 17 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1987. This volume traces the arguments of early suffragists through the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Includes the texts of the House of Commons Debate on the 1871 Disabilities Bill, 1982 Women's Franchise Bill and key documents by those who were opposed to women's suffrage

Suffrage and the Pankhursts (Hardcover): Jane Marcus Suffrage and the Pankhursts (Hardcover)
Jane Marcus
R5,399 Discovery Miles 53 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
Women's Source Library

The Non-Violent Militant - Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig (Hardcover): Ann Fitzgerald, Carol McPhee The Non-Violent Militant - Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig (Hardcover)
Ann Fitzgerald, Carol McPhee
R8,622 Discovery Miles 86 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume collects together writings of Teresa Billington-Greig, suffragette, activist and political theorist. One of the first organizers for the Women's Social and Political Union, she was a founder-member of the Women's Freedom League. She was also the first suffragette to be sent to Holloway Gaol. This volume provides insights into this exceptional woman's lifelong efforts in the women's movement.

Rights, Religion and Reform - Enhancing human dignity through spiritual and moral transformation (Hardcover): Chandra Muzaffar Rights, Religion and Reform - Enhancing human dignity through spiritual and moral transformation (Hardcover)
Chandra Muzaffar
R5,259 Discovery Miles 52 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This book discusses issues concerning human rights and religion. Is a more integrated approach to human rights desirable - an approach that transcends the individual-centred orientation of civil and political liberties of the dominant centres of power in the West? How can religious thought contribute to an integrated notion of human rights and human dignity? What sort of transformation should religion itself undergo in order to enable it to come to grips with contemporary challenges? Related to this is a larger question: How can universal spiritual and moral values help to shape politics, the economy and society as a whole?

Human Rights and Justice for All - Demanding Dignity in the United States and Around the World (Paperback): Carrie Walling Human Rights and Justice for All - Demanding Dignity in the United States and Around the World (Paperback)
Carrie Walling
R1,118 Discovery Miles 11 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The text underscores the equality and universality of human rights by applying the human rights framework to cases representing all regions of the world and countries at all stages of economic development-including comparative cases on juvenile justice in the US, persecution of Muslims in China, the Flint, MI water crisis, ISIS and sexual assault of Yazidi women, genocide, human trafficking, truth and reconciliation in South Africa and Greensboro, NC. It captures the contested and dynamic nature of human rights change by focusing on the human rights claims made by human rights defenders. It demonstrates to an American undergraduate audience how to put theory into practice by using contemporary American political problems as examples and by including a guide to campus- and community-based advocacy-a human rights toolkit.

The Gulag Archipelago, v. 1 - Experiment in Literary Investigation (Paperback): Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago, v. 1 - Experiment in Literary Investigation (Paperback)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
R629 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R133 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society

The Revolution in Words (Hardcover): Cheris Kramarae, Lana F. Rakow The Revolution in Words (Hardcover)
Cheris Kramarae, Lana F. Rakow
R5,985 R4,226 Discovery Miles 42 260 Save R1,759 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
Women's Source Library

The Body Politic - Foundings, Citizenship, and Difference in the American Political Imagination (Paperback): Catherine A.... The Body Politic - Foundings, Citizenship, and Difference in the American Political Imagination (Paperback)
Catherine A. Holland
R1,119 Discovery Miles 11 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. Introduction: The Body Politic Part I - Foundings and the Problem of the Past 2. Notes on the States of America: Jeffersonian Democracy and the Production of a National Past 3. Becoming Unnatural: The Federalist's Techniques of Government Part II - Reconstruction and its Aftermath: The Relocation of the Past 4. Sexual Reconstruction: Gender, Political Friendship and the New Techniques of Citizenship 5. In the Beginning Was a Crime: Lynching, Rape and the Tragedy of American Political Thought 6. Postscript, Giving Reasons: Rethinking Toleration for a Plural World

The Body Politic - Foundings, Citizenship, and Difference in the American Political Imagination (Hardcover): Catherine A.... The Body Politic - Foundings, Citizenship, and Difference in the American Political Imagination (Hardcover)
Catherine A. Holland
R2,598 Discovery Miles 25 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this text, Catherine Holland advances a thesis that challenges the dominant schools of thought concerning the liberal tradition in the United States. Organized around two founding moments - the American Revolution and ratification of the Constitution and the period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War - the book identifies a recurring, symbolic figure at the heart of American dilemmas of citizenship and nation, namely the human body.

Citizenship, Sustainability and Environmental Research - Q Methodology and Local Exchange Trading Systems (Hardcover): John... Citizenship, Sustainability and Environmental Research - Q Methodology and Local Exchange Trading Systems (Hardcover)
John Barry, John Proops
R2,842 Discovery Miles 28 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This innovative book uses a little-known methodological research tool to study ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), the subject of the book, is a novel and interesting social phenomenon which seems to constitute a more ecologically rational and socially inclusive form of economic activity. LETS is a system for exchanging goods and services without the use of formal, legal tender. Unlike barter, LETS members buy and sell using their own nominal currency units, but the currency in which trade is conducted is purely a means of exchange, not a commodity in itself or a store of value. The authors of this book examine LETS, and in particular they discuss whether LETS can be viewed as an aspect of the 'greening' of citizenship, with the potential to contribute to the transition to, and maintenance of, a more sustainable society. They describe the part LETS can play in raising environmental awareness; offering more sustainable practices of production and consumption and helping to create in the community the preconditions for sustainability. In their study of LETS, the authors use Q methodology, (a qualitative methodology for the systematic study of subjectivity and shared discourses) and at the same time they evaluate its usefulness for social scientific environmental research. They find that it is a powerful methodological approach which is consistent with many of the core principles, values and aims of ecological economics. They also conclude that Q has the potential to contribute to environmental policy analysis and the creation of a more participative, democratic and effective form of environmental policy making. This book will be of great interest to all social scientists interested in social movements, environment and citizenship, and in particular those wanting to understand the application of Q methodology for social science research.

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