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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms
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.
Mark Tushnet presents a concise yet comprehensive overview of free
expression law, understood as a form of constitutional law.
Confronting the major issues of free expression - speech critical
of government, libel law, hate speech regulation, and the emerging
challenges posed by new technologies - he evaluates the key
questions and potential difficulties for future generations.
Contrasting the United States with current law in Europe and
elsewhere, Tushnet argues that freedom of expression around the
world should reflect deference to legislative judgements, unless
those judgements reflect inadequate deliberation or bias, and that
much of the existing free expression law is consistent with this
view. Key features include: Comprehensible for both students of law
and non-specialist readers interested in freedom of expression from
a legal perspective Viewpoints from multiple legal systems
including analysis of decisions made by the US Supreme Court and
the European Court of Human Rights Explains the two legal doctrinal
structures: categorical, rule-bound approaches and standards-based
approaches List of key references for further reading, allowing
readers to extend their knowledge of the topic past the advanced
introduction. This Advanced Introduction will be an essential
foundational text for students of law, as well as those from a
political science background who can view freedom of expression
from a legal perspective.
Negotiation, understood simply as "working things out by talking
things through," is often anything but simple for Native nations
engaged with federal, state, and local governments to solve complex
issues, promote economic and community development, and protect and
advance their legal and historical rights. Power Balance builds on
traditional Native values and peacemaking practices to equip tribes
today with additional tools for increasing their negotiating
leverage. As cofounder and executive director of the Indian Dispute
Resolution Service, author Steven J. Haberfeld has worked with
Native tribes for more than forty years to help resolve internal
differences and negotiate complex transactions with governmental,
political, and private-sector interests. Drawing on that
experience, he combines Native ideas and principles with the
strategies of "interest-based negotiation" to develop a framework
for overcoming the unique structural challenges of dealing with
multilevel government agencies. His book offers detailed
instructions for mastering six fundamental steps in the negotiating
process, ranging from initial planning and preparation to hammering
out a comprehensive, written win-win agreement. With real-life
examples throughout, Power Balance outlines measures tribes can
take to maximize their negotiating power-by leveraging their
special legal rights and historical status and by employing
political organizing strategies to level the playing field in
obtaining their rightful benefits. Haberfeld includes a case study
of the precedent-setting negotiation between the Timbisha Shoshone
Tribe and four federal agencies that resolved disputes over land,
water, and other natural resource in Death Valley National Park in
California. Bringing together firsthand experience, traditional
Native values, and the most up-to-date legal principles and
practices, this how-to book will be an invaluable resource for
tribal leaders and lawyers seeking to develop and refine their
negotiating skills and strategies.
Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the
movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The
deprivation of liberty of non-citizens due to their undocumented or
irregular status is often fraught with gross injustices. This book
stresses the need for global policy-makers to address these
practices in order to ensure compliance with fundamental human
rights and prevent detention abuses. Approaching detention from an
interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together leading
writers and thinkers to provide a greater understanding of why it
is such an important social phenomenon and suggest ways to confront
it locally and globally. Challenging Immigration Detention
thematically examines a broad range of situations across the globe,
with contributors providing overviews of key issues, case studies
and experiences in their fields, while highlighting potential
strategies for curbing detention abuses. Demonstrating the value of
varied analytical frameworks and investigative angles, the
contributors provide urgently needed insight into a growing human
rights issue. With cross-disciplinary investigation into an issue
with immediate global importance, Challenging Immigration Detention
is vital for undergraduates, postgraduates, activists, lawyers and
policy-makers interested in international human rights. National
and international humanitarian organizations and advocacy groups
working in migrant and asylum rights will find this a compelling
and diverse overview of migrant detention. Contributors include: S.
Albert, N. Bernstein, M. Bosworth, S. Brooker, P. Ceriani, D.
Conlon, G. Cornelisse, N. De Genova, M.B. Flynn, M.J. Flynn, M.
Grange, N. Hiemstra, I. Majcher, G. Mitchell, A. Mountz, C. Munoz,
D. Schriro, H. Singh Bhui, Z. Steel, D. Wilsher, M.P. Young, P.
Young
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have
focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their
respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public
accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to
this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center
of the twentieth century's transportation revolution, and airports
embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and
cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States. When
segregationists inscribed local definitions of whiteness and
blackness onto sites of interstate and even international transit,
they not only brought the incongruities of racial separation into
sharp relief but also obligated the federal government to
intervene. Ortlepp looks at African American passengers; civil
rights organizations; the federal government and judiciary; and
airport planners, architects, and managers as actors in shaping
aviation's legal, cultural, and built environments. She relates the
struggles of black travelers-to enjoy the same freedoms on the
airport grounds that they enjoyed in the aircraft cabin-in the
context of larger shifts in the postwar social, economic, and
political order. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both
spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation
over the re-negotiation of racial identities. Hence, this new study
situates itself in the scholarly debate over the multifaceted
entanglements of "race" and "space."
An unprecedented look at the evolution of American police, from
filling their intended role as peacekeepers and guardians of
citizen rights to calling themselves—and acting primarily
as—"law enforcement officers." As accusations of police
misconduct and racial bias increasingly dominate the media, The
Police in a Free Society: Safeguarding Rights While Enforcing the
Law takes an unflinching look at the police, the communities they
serve, and the politicians who direct them. Author Todd Douglas, a
veteran state police commander, exposes the occurrences of police
misconduct and incompetence as well as incidences of charlatans who
intentionally inflame racial tensions with the police for their own
political or financial gain. Readers will better understand what
police officers must deal with on a daily basis, grasp the role of
lawmakers in keeping faith with the public, and appreciate the
tremendous challenges that police leaders face in attempting to
reverse recent trends and shore up public confidence in police
officers. This is a rare glimpse into the often-ugly reality of
what happens on America's streets, with insights gained from the
perspective of the cop and suspect alike.
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