Human rights, civil rights Books
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Rights to land: A guide to tenure upgrading and
Book SynopsisThe issue of land rights is an ongoing and complex topic of debate for South Africans. Rights to Land comes at a time when land redistribution by the government is underway. This book seeks to understand the issues around land rights and distribution of land in South Africa, and proposes that new policies and processes should be developed and adopted. It further provides an analysis of what went so wrong, and warns that a new phase of restitution may ignite conflicting ethnic claims and facilitate elite capture of land and rural resources. Rights to Land is published in partnership with Good Governance Africa (GGA).
£17.05
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Business as usual after Marikana: Corporate power
Book SynopsisSix years after the Marikana massacre, we have still seen minimal change for mineworkers and mining communities. Although much has been written about the days leading up to August 16, 2012, and how little has been done, few have analyzed the policies and system that make such a tragedy possible. Lonmin Platinum Mine and the events of August 16th are a microcosm of the mining sector and how things can go wrong when society leaves everything to government and ""big business"". Business as Usual after Marikana is a comprehensive analysis of mining in South Africa. Written by respected academics and practitioners in the field, it looks into the history, policies, and business practices that brought us to this point.Trade Review“This publication, which starts by examining the long-term business relations between BASF and Lonmin, goes on to drill deeper into the hard rock of the persistent structures of inequality. By doing so we will understand that Marikana is not the tragic failure of an otherwise improving economic system but rather a calculated form of collateral damage.” – Bishop Jo Seoka, former president of the South African Council of Churches
£17.05
Daraja Press Insurrectionary Uprisings: A Reader in
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£26.09
Springer VS Menschliche Führung für humane Technologie
Book SynopsisKapitel 1: WARUM: Die Perspektive: POZE - Ein multidisziplinärer Lebensrahmen.- Kapitel 2: WO: Menschen, Technologie und humane Technologie.- Kapitel 3: WER: Menschliche Perspektiven auf humane Technologie.- Kapitel 4: WAS: Optimierung natürlicher und künstlicher Ressourcen, um in einer hybriden Gesellschaft zu gedeihen.
£42.74
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Das NordrheinWestfalische Versammlungsgesetz
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£59.42
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Kinderrechte und ihre explizite Verankerung im
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£95.92
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Die Kritik des 184i StGB Sexuelle Belästigung
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£95.92
Duncker & Humblot GmbH Partizipation von Leistungsberechtigten im
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£87.92
Brill Schoningh Wehrmacht Und Waffen-SS Im Partisanenkrieg:
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£50.40
Brill Schoningh Soldaten Des Todes: Die 3. Ss-Divison Totenkopf
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£34.90
Lit Verlag Land and Power in Khorezm: Farmers, Communities,
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£28.76
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Die UNMenschenrechtsvertragsorgane und der Klimawandel
£80.99
BoD - Books on Demand Kein Bargeld kein Leben
£21.20
BoD - Books on Demand Frau Sein Frei Sein
£17.09
Communalism Press Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the
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£12.34
Springer Verlag, Singapore Elderly Care in India: Societal and State Responses
Book SynopsisThis volume highlights a range of issues underpinning elder care in India, with particular focus on the challenges that India faces in caring for the elderly. In addition to the very limited state support and near total dependence on the family for long-term social care and economic support, the changing dynamics between generations in the family structure and privatization of health care in general create new challenges that need to be addressed. Although care plays a significant role in the well-being of the elderly, there is not much research available from India. This volume draws on field-based evidence and the legal framework in India to understand the ways in which care is organized for the elderly and to locate the main sources of care provision. The book addresses key themes such as shrinking of traditional support base of the elderly, trajectory of old age homes in India and care arrangements for the elderly within the community. Written by academics and practitioners in the field of gerontology, this book is an informative resource for demographers, gerontologists, social scientists studying aging, and human rights and legal experts working with the aged. Table of Contents1. Introduction - S Irudaya Rajan And Gayathri Balagopal.- 2. After the Dividend: Caring for a Greying India - Debasis Barik, Tushar Agrawal, Sonalde Desai.- 3 ‘Fragile Mind and Failing Memory’: The Construction of Care for the Elderly by the Laws and Policies in India- Deblina Dey.- 4. Ageing population: need for formal care workers - Bharti Birla.- 5.Old Age Homes in India: Sharing the Burden of Elderly Care with the Family - Anupama Datta.- 6. Elder Care and Living Arrangement in Kerala – S. Irudaya rajan, S. Sunitha, U. R. Arya.- 7. Socioeconomic condition and social support among the ageing Tiwas of Assam - Chandana Sarmah, Barnali Das.- 8. Care and Support During Twilight Years: Perception of Elderly from Rural India - Dhananjay W. Bhansod.- 9. Importance of Caregiving in Accomplishment of Daily Routine Activities of the Oldest Old – Shubham, Arvind K. Joshi.- 10. Vulnerability and Coping Mechanism of Aged: A Study of Elderly Widows in Jharkhand - Sangeeta Kumari Gupta, T. V. Sekher.- 11. Elderly Women: Prevailing Paradigm of Caring Scenario in the Backdrop of Feminisation of Ageing – Jayashree S.- 12. Caring for the Elderly with Dementia - Robert Mathew.- 13. Care and support arrangements among elderly residents of an urban slum in Tamil Nadu State, India - Gayathri Balagopal.- 14. Sibling Care among Rural Elderly Widows – c. Aruna.- 15. Migrant children, ageing parents and transnational care strategies: Experiences from Central Travancore, Kerala – Sreerupa.
£67.49
The University of Chicago Press Realizing Educational Rights Advancing School
Book SynopsisExamines two educational rights questions that arise at the intersection of political theory, educational policy, and law: What is the place of a right to education in a participatory democracy, and how can we realize this right in the United States? The author tracks these questions across both philosophical and pragmatic terrain.Trade Review"Realizing Educational Rights is an important book. It breaks new ground in the manner in which it weds theory and practice. Anne Newman lucidly puts into perspective the major writings on rights, deliberative democracy, judicial review, and social reform-advancing thinking in each of these areas-and also develops an important conceptual framework that bridges the world of academic scholarship, legal analysis, and community organizing." (Michael A. Rebell, author of Courts and Kids)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Limits of Liberty
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£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Visayan Vignettes Ethnographic Traces of a
Book SynopsisCollective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that surrounded it. In this major historical application of rational choice theory to a social movement, Dennis Chong reexamines the problem of organizing collective action by focusing on the social, psychological, and moral incentives of political activism that are often neglected by rational choice theorists. Using game theoretic concepts as well as dynamic models, he explores how rational individuals decide to participate in social movements and how these individual decisions translate into collective outcomes. In addition to applying formal modeling to the puzzling and important social phenomenon of collective action, he offers persuasive insights into the political and psychological dynamics that provoke and sustain public activism. This remarkably accessi
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Boundaries of Blackness AIDS and the
Book SynopsisExplores the social, political and cultural impact of AIDS on the African-American community. Informed by interviews with activists, ministers, public officials and people with AIDS, the book brings to light how the epidemic fractured, rather than united, the black community.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Crafting Equality Americas AngloAfrican Word New
Book SynopsisPhilosophers and historians often treat fundamental concepts like equality as if they existed only as fixed ideas found solely in the canonical texts of civilization. In Crafting Equality, Celeste Michelle Condit and John Louis Lucaites argue that the meaning of at least one key wordequalityhas been forged in the day-to-day pragmatics of public discourse. Drawing upon little studied speeches, newspapers, magazines, and other public discourse, Condit and Lucaites survey the shifting meaning of equality from 1760 to the present as a process of interaction and negotiation among different social groups in American politics and culture. They make a powerful case for the critical role of black Americans in actively shaping what equality has come to mean in our political conversation by chronicling the development of an African-American rhetorical community. The story they tell supports a vision of equality that embraces both heterogeneity and homogeneity as necessary for maintaining the ba
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press The Only Woman in the Room
Book SynopsisBeate Sirota Gordon was born in Vienna, but in 1929 her family moved to Japan so that her father, a noted pianist, could teach, and she grew up speaking German, English, and Japanese. In 1946, at age twenty-two, she helped to draft the new postwar Japanese constitution. This title chronicles the unlikely string of events that led her to that role.Trade Review"Gordon's personal story will enlighten all who question the importance of women's presence in the corridors of power." (Gloria Steinem) "Gordon's death has unearthed her legacy promoting gender equality for all women. Let's hope it stays in the light." (Atlantic) "Quietly feminist, freshly illuminating." (Publishers Weekly)"
£16.15
The University of Chicago Press Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
Book SynopsisFew virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? The author uses Wikipedia, the most prominent product of open organization, to analyze the theory and politics of openness in practice - and to break its spell.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
Book SynopsisFew virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? The author uses Wikipedia, the most prominent product of open organization, to analyze the theory and politics of openness in practice - and to break its spell.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Rights Revolution Lawyers Activists and
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the growth of civil rights, this text examines the high courts of the United States, Britain, Canada and India within their specific constitutional and cultural contexts, arguing that the ascendancy of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization of access to the courts.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Struggle for Water Politics Rationality and
Book SynopsisThe story of the proposed - and ultimately thwarted - building of a dam, nearly 50 years ago in Arizona, which would have destroyed wildlife, flooded archaeological sites and forced the Havapai Indians off their ancestral home. It is also a study of rationality as a cultural, organisational and political construct.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Politics of Religious Freedom
Book SynopsisFaced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have responded with laws and policies designed to promote freedom of religion. What are the cultural and epistemological assumptions underlying this response, and what forms of politics are enabled in the process?
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press The Constitutional Underclass Gays Lesbians and
Book SynopsisUsing Colorado's initiative with Amendment 2 as its focus, this text seeks to untangle the complex standards and subtle rhetoric the Supreme Court uses to apply the equal protection clause. It reveals how these standards are used to favour certain groups over others.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Community of Rights
Book SynopsisA sequel to Reason and Morality by Alan Gewirth, this work extends his principle of equal and universal human rights, the principle of generic consistency, into the arena of social and political philosophy. It argues that the ethical principles that guide individuals apply also to the state.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press The Fatal Embrace Jews the State Paper Jews and
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Divided by Color Racial Politics and Democratic
Book SynopsisAn examination of American attitudes toward race and racial policies. This book shows that racial resentment powerfully affects white opinion on such issues as: welfare, affirmative action, school desegregation, and the plight of the inner city. The opinions of black Americans are also studied.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Toward Natural Right and History
Book SynopsisStrauss's lectures that led up to his most important work, Natural Right and History.Trade Review"Toward "Natural Right and History" brings together six previously unpublished gems previously hidden in the cobwebs of the Strauss archives. Written during the fertile period of 1937-46, the essays show Strauss as a craftsman working out the details of the arguments that would be expressed in works such as Natural Right and History, Thoughts on Machiavelli, and The City and Man."--Devin Stauffer, University of Texas at Austin "The ably edited essays selected here provide insight into an important moment in Strauss's work. They show Strauss thinking through problems that would become fundamental to his most important book, Natural Right and History."--Steven B. Smith, Yale University
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press The Future of Academic Freedom
Book SynopsisIn this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Same Sex Different Politics Success and Failure
Book SynopsisExplains why gay rights advocates have achieved dramatically different levels of success from one policy area to another. This book compares results across a wide range of gay rights struggles. It explores debates over laws governing military service, homosexual conduct, adoption, marriage and partner recognition, hate crimes, and civil rights.Trade Review"Same Sex, Different Politics is a rigorous and well-written analysis of the contemporary lesbian and gay movements in light of the intersection of public opinion, policy, and political institutions. Most impressive of all is Gary Mucciaroni's ability to connect his precise analyses with an engaging set of practical recommendations for policy and political organizing. There is nothing else like this book." - Craig A. Rimmerman, coeditor of The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Same Sex Different Politics Success and Failure
Book SynopsisExplains why gay rights advocates have achieved dramatically different levels of success from one policy area to another. This book compares results across a wide range of gay rights struggles. It explores debates over laws governing military service, homosexual conduct, adoption, marriage and partner recognition, hate crimes, and civil rights.Trade Review"Same Sex, Different Politics is a rigorous and well-written analysis of the contemporary lesbian and gay movements in light of the intersection of public opinion, policy, and political institutions. Most impressive of all is Gary Mucciaroni's ability to connect his precise analyses with an engaging set of practical recommendations for policy and political organizing. There is nothing else like this book." - Craig A. Rimmerman, coeditor of The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Rights at Work Pay Equity Reform and the
Book SynopsisThis text explores the role that litigation has played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men. It explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement since the 1970s.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Faking Liberties
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£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Women Gays and the Constitution The Grounds for
Book SynopsisAn interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy and constitutional analysis, explaining the background, development and growing impact of two challenging human rights movements: feminism and gay rights. This text argues that both movements are extensions of rights-based dissent.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press The Politics of SameSex Marriage Emersion
Book SynopsisSame-sex marriage emerged in 2004 as one of the hottest issues of the campaign season. This work explores various facets of this issue, including the ideologies and strategies on both sides of the argument, the public's response, and how same-sex marriage fits into the context of policy cycles and windows of political opportunity.Trade Review"This original and wide-ranging volume collects all of the current mainstream scholarship by some of the finest minds in political science on the topic of same-sex marriage. Its broad scope and emphasis on public opinion and political processes should appeal to scholars of various disciplines interested in the issue of same-sex marriage and American politics." - Kenneth Sherrill, Hunter College, City University of New York"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press An Ethics of Interrogation
Book SynopsisExamining the act of interrogation, the author confronts a host of philosophical and legal issues, from the right to privacy and the privilege against compelled self-incrimination to prisoner rights and the legal consequences of different modes of interrogation for both domestic criminal and foreign terror suspects.Trade Review"This book offers an interdisciplinary study of the role of interrogation and its use by the state. Michael Skerker's approach allows the reader to view the conduct of domestic and foreign affairs through the prism of moral and political philosophy, jurisprudence, and just war theory. The result is an excellent approach to this multifaceted issue that provides insight without polemic." (Jan Goldman, founding editor, International Journal of Intelligence Ethics)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Human Rights In Camera
Book SynopsisExamines the visual images that have accompanied human rights struggles and the responses people have had to them. This title considers a series of historical events, including the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the Holocaust, to illustrate that universal human rights have come to be imagined through aesthetic experience.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Hegels Critique of Liberalism Rights in Context
Book SynopsisIn Hegel's Critique of Liberalism, Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated classic liberalism, preserving what was of value while rendering it more attentive to the dynamics of human history and the developmental structure of the moral personality. Hegel's goal, Smith suggests, was to find a way of incorporating both the ancient emphasis on the dignity and even architectonic character of political life with the modern concern for freedom, rights, and mutual recognition. Smith's insightful analysis reveals Hegel's relevance not only to contemporary political philosophers concerned with normative issues of liberal theory but also to political scientists who have urged a revival of the state as a centralconcept of political inquiry.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The Strength of Our Commitments
Book SynopsisA deep dive into the mechanics of national human rights institutions and the forces that make or break their success. In the years since World War II, the endeavor to promote human rights has gained momentum and become increasingly important within international relations. Yet these efforts often run into serious problems of enforcement. Many countries formed national human rights institutions (NHRIs) with independent mandates to support and monitor government compliance with international human rights law. Be they commissions, ombudsmen, or tribunals, these institutions vary in their power and impact. For this book, Corina Lacatus surveyed NHRIs in Europe and around the world to determine their effectiveness and explain why some succeed while others fail. The Strength of Our Commitments explores the relationship between the domestic and international support an institution receives and its ability to secure resources, credibility, and tangibly improve human rights conditions. Laca
£91.20
The University of Chicago Press I Want to Be a Cowboy
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£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Participation in America Political Democracy and
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£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Dark Voices W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought
Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the intellectual formation of W.E.B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of The Souls of Black Folk. It offers a reading of his work from this period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1: Race and Multiplicity: An Introduction Pt. I: From the South to the Seventh Ward 2: "Great Men," "Great Laws," and the "Fourth Dimension": The Crisis of Hero, System, and Nation Bismarck in Tennessee: Traveling in Time Pluralism as Mind-Cure: The Accommodation of William James "Fourth Dimension" and "Great Laws": Satire and Historicism Jefferson Davis at Harvard: Representing Civilization 3: Local Knowledge in the Shadow of Liberty: Science, Society, and Legitimacy Toward Science: Will and Law Revisited The Riddle of the American Sphinx: History, Sociology, and Exceptionalism The Claims of "Thought and Feeling": Science, Literature, and Understanding Pt. II: The Souls of Black Folk 4: "Double-Consciousness": Locating the Self United Selves and United States: Hegel in America "The Contradiction of Double Aims" and "The Talented Tenth" The Unlocated Self: James, Santayana, Emerson 5: A "Prosody of Those Dark Voices": The Transformation of Consciousness The Sorrow Songs: Using an Unusable Past Voices from the Caverns and the Guardians of the Folk Thoughtful Deed: The Senses of Prophetic Imagination Missing the End: Toward Revolution 6: Conclusion Appendix: W. E. B. Du Bois's "A Vacation Unique" Notes Bibliography Index
£30.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Harriets Legacies
Book SynopsisHarriet’s Legacies articulates new critical terrain for the historic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman by recuperating the significance of Tubman’s time in Canada as not just an interlude in her American narrative but another site for thinking about Black diasporic mobilities, possibilities, and histories.Trade Review“This book extends Harriet Tubman’s legacy in Black intellectual, political, and artistic life. In its impressive range across disciplines and fields, Harriet's Legacies asserts Tubman as a still-living presence and inspiration for the work of artists and scholars alike, and it demonstrates how a uniquely Canadian reading of Tubman produces new intellectual paths for our time.” Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto and author of The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom“This volume is timely … as it situates Harriet Tubman as a starting point for a variety of approaches to Black Canada, past and present. The collaborative thinking, affiliative longing, and creative visioning that this volume models and brings together powerfully demonstrate how a nonlinear view of legacy can enrich our turn towards the future even in the face of so much uncertainty.” Canadian Geographer“Harriet’s Legacies uses the brief but important residence of Harriet Tubman in southern Ontario (Canada West, to be precise) as a starting point to explore new meanings of the origins, experiences, and trajectory of the Black diaspora in Canada. The book sheds new light on the profound transnational significance of the American cultural figure and activist by moving existing discourses beyond national boundaries in ways that invite us to think more fully about the diasporic dynamics that inform African Canadian life. Adopting a resolutely multidisciplinary approach and gathering the work of various artists and scholars in Black Studies, the 21-chapter volume does not simply look back but sees the impact of Harriet Tubman “as ongoing, collective practices of antiracism and freedom seeking.” In doing so, Harriet’s Legacies provides a renewed vigour for both African Canadian Studies and the pursuit of social justice in our times.” Canadian Studies Network 2023 Best Edited Collection Prize jury
£26.59
McGill-Queen's University Press The Limits of Common Humanity
Book SynopsisThe Limits of Common Humanity provides an interdisciplinary response to theorise the role of “humanity” as a motivational concept. Jarvis examines the creation and mission of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) concept, highlighting the challenges that have restricted its application in practice.Trade Review“This book uniquely unpacks, centres, and conceptualizes the nebulous idea of ‘humanity’ within the rationale underpinning the Responsibility to Protect concept. By situating humanity as encapsulating a dual function – humankind and humanness – The Limits of Common Humanity fills a critical gap in the literature with its theoretical focus.” Ben Murphy, University of Liverpool
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