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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms
This book critically examines how countries across Europe have
dealt with the COVID crisis from a policing and security
perspective. Across the chapters, contributors from different
countries examine the data, press coverage, and provide
professional observations on how policing, law enforcement, police
powers and community relations were managed. They focus on how
security and governmental actors often failed to align with the
formal scripts that were specifically designed for
crisis-management, resulting in the wavering application of
professional discretion and coercive powers. Their different
approaches were evident: in some regions police were less
dominantly visible compared to other regions, where the police used
a top-down visible and repressive stance vis-a-vis public alignment
with COVID rules, including the imposition of lockdown and curfews.
Some contributors draw on data from the COROPOL (Corona Policing)
Monitor which collated data on crime, plural policing and public
order in Europe and around the world during the early phases of the
COVID crisis. Overall, this book seeks to provide comparative
critical insights and commentary as well as a practical and
operational understanding of security governance during the
COVID-19 crisis and the lessons learned to improve future
preparedness.
This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the
United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the
cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write,
generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the
issue has a great deal more to do with social norms rooted in a web
of cultural assumptions about the function of rhetoric in social
organization generally, and in a democratic society specifically.
The dominant, liberal notion of free speech in the United States,
assumed to be self-evidently true, is, in fact, a particular
historical and cultural formation, rooted in Enlightenment
philosophies and dependent on a collection of false narratives
about the founding of the country, the role of speech and media in
its development, and the relationship between capitalism and
democracy. Most importantly, this notion of freedom of speech
relies on a warped sense of the function of rhetoric in democratic
social organization. By privileging individual expression, at the
expense of democratic deliberation, the liberal notion of free
speech functions largely to suppress rather than promote meaningful
public discussion and debate, and works to sustain unequal
relations of power. The presumed democratization of the public
sphere, via the Internet, raises more questions than it answers-who
has access and who doesn't, who commands attention and why, and
what sorts of effects such expression actually has. We need to
think a great deal more carefully about the values subsumed and
ignored in an uncritical attachment to a particular version of the
public sphere. This book seeks to illuminate the ways in which
cultural framing diminishes the complexity of free speech and
sublimates a range of value-choices. A more fully democratic
society requires a more critical view of freedom of speech.
Against the backdrop of the new globalized hate speech dynamics,
the nature and scope of States' obligations pursuant to
international human rights law on prohibiting incitement to hatred
have taken on increased importance and have become a controversial
issue within multilateral human rights diplomacy. Key questions
being posed in the on-going debates over how best to respond to the
new wave of hatred include whether the international legal norm
against incitement to hatred, as it currently stands, is suitable
to address the contemporary challenges of this phenomenon.
Alternatively, does it need to be developed further? This book
traces the journey of this norm in three analytical domains; its
emergence, relevant supranational jurisprudence, and the recent
standard-setting attempts within the UN. The book argues that five
internal features of the norm had a strong influence on its
difficult path within international human rights law.
The 2017 general election was supposed to be a walkover for the
Conservative Party - but the voters had other ideas. In The Lost
Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain why
the thumping victory the Tories expected never happened. His
findings reveal what real voters made of the campaign, why Britain
refused Theresa May's appeal for a clear mandate to negotiate
Brexit and where the party now stands after more than a decade of
`modernisation' . And, critically, Ashcroft examines the challenges
the Tories face in building a winning coalition when 13 million
votes is no longer enough for outright victory. This is an
indispensible guide that will provide food for thought to anyone
wishing to examine in detail what really happened on 8 June, 2017,
and how this will impact on future elections.
The authoritative collection includes a number of seminal papers
relating to the field of terrorism and human rights. Professor
Scheinin has selected readings covering a variety of topics,
including detention and extraordinary rendition, targeted killings,
freedom of expression, privacy and terrorist listings. Along with
an original introduction by the editor, this important and topical
volume will be an invaluable source of reference for researchers,
students, academics and practitioners interested in the field of
terrorism and human rights.
The past decade has witnessed unprecedented use of the Internet for
both advancing and suppressing human rights, giving rise to complex
new issues that can both inspire and overwhelm. With ever-growing
concerns about the (non-)regulation of our digital environment, it
is surprising that both the theoretical and practical application
of human rights to the Internet and our online lives remain
unclear.This book is a short and accessible introduction to the
concepts of human rights, the Internet and the emergence of an era
of human rights online as a new legal challenge. It will be of
interest to a broad range of readers: policy makers and informed
citizens, lawyers working with human rights defenders, and legal
and human rights academics examining the emergence of this legal
field.
This book explores how citizenship is differently gendered and
performed across national and regional boundaries. Using
'citizenship' as its organizing concept, it is a collection of
multidisciplinary approaches to legal, socio-cultural and
performative aspects of gender construction and identity: violence
against women, victimhood and agency, and everyday issues of
socialization in a globalized world. It brings together scholars of
politics, media, and performance who are committed to dialogue
across both nation and discipline. This study is the culmination of
a two-year project on the topic of 'Gendered Citizenship', arising
from an international collaboration that has sought to develop a
comparative and yet singular perspective on performance in relation
to key political themes facing our countries of origin in the early
decades of this century. The research is interdisciplinary and
multinational, drawing on Indian, European, and North and South
American contexts.
According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the goal of
a social justice approach for children is to ensure that children
"are better served and protected by justice systems, including the
security and social welfare sectors." Despite this worthy goal, the
UN documents how children are rarely viewed as stakeholders in
justice rules of law; child justice issues are often dealt with
separate from larger justice and security issues; and when justice
issues for children are addressed, it is often through a siloed,
rather than a comprehensive approach. This volume actively
challenges the current youth social justice paradigm through
terminology and new approaches that place children and young people
front and center in the social justice conversation. Through
international consideration, children and young people worldwide
are incorporated into the social justice conversation.
Although many developments surrounding the Internet campaign are
now considered to be standard fare, there were a number of new
developments in 2016. Drawing on original research conducted by
leading experts, The Internet and the 2016 Presidential Campaign
attempts to cover these developments in a comprehensive fashion.
How are campaigns making use of the Internet to organize and
mobilize their ground game? To communicate their message? The book
also examines how citizens made use of online sources to become
informed, follow campaigns, and participate. Contributions also
explore how the Internet affected developments in media reporting,
both traditional and non-traditional, about the campaign. What
other messages were available online, and what effects did these
messages have had on citizen's attitudes and vote choice? The book
examines these questions in an attempt to summarize the 2016 online
campaign.
In recent years, the engagement of stakeholders has become
imperative for the overall success of an organization. As the
global business landscape continues to evolve, promoting modern
leadership techniques and engagement with the community have become
two key tactics for organizations to remain competitive in the
current market. Understanding and implementing these methodologies
is pivotal for professionals and researchers around the globe.
Civic Engagement Frameworks and Strategic Leadership Practices for
Organization Development is a critical reference source that
provides vital research on the implementation of strategic
leadership techniques for promoting civic engagement and sustaining
organizational success. While highlighting topics such as social
media strategies, analytical tools, and ethical interventions, this
book is ideally designed for managers, executives, politicians,
researchers, business specialists, government professionals,
consultants, academicians, and students seeking current research on
the use of civic engagement and strategic leadership initiatives
for the overall development of organizations.
Does human rights law work? This book engages in this heated debate
through a detailed analysis of thirty years of the right to health
- perhaps the most complex human right - in Brazil. Are Brazilians
better off three decades after the enactment of the right to health
in the 1988 Constitution? Has the flurry of litigation experienced
in Brazil helped or harmed the majority of the population? This
book offers an in-depth analysis of these complex and controversial
questions grounded on a wealth of empirical data. The book covers
the history of the recognition of health as a human right in the
1988 Constitution through the Sanitary Movement's campaign and the
subsequent three decades of what Ferraz calls the politics and
judicialization of health. It challenges positions of both
optimists and sceptics of human rights law and will be of interest
to those looking for a more nuanced analysis.
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