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Princeton University Press The 1970s
Book SynopsisThe 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, Thomas Borstelmann creates aTrade Review"Keeping contemporary history timely and accessible, Borstelmann shows the significance of 1970s politics, culture, and religion on the following decades... The author's sterling commentary on the rise of the feminist movement, the decline of the Soviet empire, and the New Christian right's courtship of Capitol Hill sets this book apart from other surveys of the 'Me Decade.' Nuggets of genuine insight without any social agenda are found frequently within these pages."--Publishers Weekly "[T]his is an ambitious and important work that skillfully analyzes all aspects of the seventies and defines its legacy for present times."--Karl Helicher, ForeWord Reviews "What sets this book apart ... is the author's global approach, making clear that by the 1970s, while other countries may not have seen the US as the preeminent world leader it had been, it was very much a part of a world in which, thanks largely to technological advantages, boundaries of time and space and even culture were collapsing. Borstelmann also concisely brings readers to the present, concluding that while Americans have become less racist and sexist and more tolerant of diversity and difference, they have as a nation allowed economic inequality to reach near-epic proportions--in other words, the 1 percent versus the 99 percent."--Choice "Used as a text to enter the field of 1970s U.S. history the book excels and should receive wide readership. The study is accessible, very well written and incorporates much recent 1970s literature... The 1970s is an important addition to the growing body of literature focused on the decade."--Nick Blackboum, 49th Parallel "[I]ntelligent and well crafted."--William L. O'neill, Pacific Historical Review "Thomas Borstelmann provides us with a significant addition to a growing body of literature on the decade. More than an exhaustive survey of American politics, culture, and society in the seventies (a considerable achievement in itself), the study focuses on what Borstelmann brilliantly identifies as the central crux of the decade... Borstelmann has written a thought-provoking, lucid, and at-times brilliant account of American culture, society, and politics in the seventies... [I]f readers approach this book as the capacious and beautifully written history of the United States that it is, they will be richly rewarded."--Natasha Zaretsky, Diplomatic History "Borstelmann is an excellent synthesis succeeded. His simple thesis offers explanatory power. It is also rarely overused. The beauty of this book is that Borstelmann can interweave different and quite different strands and topics to a text."--Frank Reichherzer, Sehepunkte "Borstelmann's is a narrative that raises provocative questions. Moreover, it serves as an accessible overview of the 1970s, including political, social, diplomatic and cultural developments. I can easily imagine it being used in a classroom, where it could serve as a jumping-off point for deeper analysis of the important issues raised."--Brian Kennedy, Journal of Transatlantic Studies "Borstelmann does an excellent job illuminating the role of technology... He is at his best in treatments of environmentalism and religious fundamentalism... An essential volume for anyone seeking to understand the legacy of that decade."--Christian Wright, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Crosscurrents of Crisis in 1970s America 19 Trouble Abroad 22 Corruption at Home 36 Conservatism and the Distrust of Government 45 Economic Insecurity 53 Turning Inward 63 Chapter 2: The Rising Tide of Equality and Democratic Reform 73 Women in the Public Sphere 76 Women in the Private Sphere 88 The Many Frontiers of Equality 96 Political Reform 108 Resistance 114 Chapter 3: The Spread of Market Values 122 A Sea Change of Principles 126 The Economy Goes South 133 Globalization's Gathering Speed 137 From Citizenship to Deregulation 144 Market Solutions for Every Problem 153 A Freer Market, A Coarser Culture 162 Chapter 4: The Retreat of Empires and the Global Advance of the Market 175 The Emergence of Human Rights 179 European Empires and Southern Africa 186 The Soviet Empire 193 The American Empire 201 The Israeli Exception 208 The Retreat of the State 214 China and the Hollowing Out of Socialism 220 Chapter 5: Resistance to the New Hyper-Individualism 227 The Environmentalist Challenge 231 Religious Resurgence at Home 247 Religious Resurgence in Israel 258 Religious Resurgence in the Muslim World 263 Jimmy Carter as a Man of His Times 270 Chapter 6: More and Less Equal since the 1970s 279 Evidence to the Contrary 280 Inclusiveness Ascending 287 Markets Persisting 295 Unrestrained Consumption 299 Inequality Rising 306 Conclusion 312 Notes 319 Index 371
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Agents of Terror Ordinary Men and Extraordinary
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGroundbreaking. In the first detailed description of Stalin's mass terror, Vatlin unfolds the day-to-day working of the Soviet political police who carried out orders to select, arrest, interrogate, and often murder their fellow citizens. An absorbing, heartrending account."" - David Shearer, author of Policing Stalin's Socialism""A sensationally significant, detailed microhistory of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the criminal files of NKVD agents who were arrested as scapegoats at the end of the terrorwhat some historians have called the purge of the purgers."" - Lynne ViolaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Oleg Khlevniuk Preface to the English-Language Edition Introduction to the English-Language Edition by Seth Bernstein List of Abbreviations Introduction: Why Kuntsevo? Setting the Stage Part I. Executors of Terror Part II. Patterns of Victimization Epilogue: New Kuntsevo Forgets the Past Notes Index
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New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd Walter Albertina Sisulu In our lifetime
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WW Norton & Co EIMI
Book SynopsisA reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia.
£12.34
New York University Press The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race A
Book SynopsisTraces the major trends in scientific and intellectual understandings of "race" from the Middle AgesTrade Review"Add[s] a needed dimension to the study of race in political science that I hope scholars beyond the field of theory will take to heart." * Perspectives on Politics *"An indispensable book. The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race takes the study of whiteness to a new level both historically and theoretically. No previous study of the familiar racial category-& white-has attained such global breadth and analytical depth. It remedies a significant gap in the social scientific study of race, providing an intellectual history of whiteness that is both erudite and accessible." -- Howard Winant,author of The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice"Clearly and stylishly written and argued. . . well-supported by wide-ranging research and striking knowledge. . . . The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race ranges across centuries and continents and moves from intellectual to political and social history gracefully." -- David Roediger,author of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class"In charting the course of the 'Caucasian race' from a despised, barely European peoples to a scientific classification for white identity, Bruce Baum illuminates the socially constructed nature of race and the role of science in shaping it. His analysis of the changing fortunes of this curious concept demonstrates that even scientific inquiry is deeply influenced by the social and political assumptions of its time. By showing that the Caucasian race is a product of power rather than a racial group descended from the Caucasus region, The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race makes an important contribution to the study of race and whiteness." -- Joel Olson,author of The Abolition of White Democracy"In racial discourse, the term & Caucasian has always had a scientific aura and a prestige elevated above that of the simpler colloquial 'white.' Bruce Baum's fascinating and extensively researched genealogy of the concept and its subsequent career provides an eye-opening history of the utter bogusness of these pretensions. As such, the book is not merely an invaluable addition to the recent & whiteness literature and a documentation of the myriad shifting possibilities of racialization, but a salutary reminder of the political economy that always underlies the category & race." -- Charles W. Mills,author of The Racial ContractTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: "Caucasians"and the Political History of Racial Identities * 1 Before the "Caucasian Race": Antecedents of European Racialism, ca. 1000-1684 * 2 Enlightenment Science and the Invention of the "Caucasian Race," 1684-1795 * 3 Passage into "Our Ordinary Forms of Expression": The "Caucasian Race," ca. 1795-1850 * 4 Racialized Nationalism and the Partial Eclipse of the "Caucasian Race," ca. 1840-1935 * 5 The Color Line and the "Caucasian Race" Revival, 1935-51 * 6 Not-so-Benign Racialism: The "Caucasian Race" after Decolonization, 1952-2005 * 7 "Where Caucasian Means Black": "Race," Nation, and the Chechen Wars Conclusion: Deconstructing "Caucasia," Dismantling Racism Notes Index About the Author
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New York University Press Scottsboro Alabama A Story in Linoleum Cuts
Book SynopsisScottsboro, Alabama, which consists of 118 exceptionally powerful linoleum prints, provides a unique graphic history of one of the most infamous, racially-charged episodes in the annals of the American judicial system, and of the racial and class struggle of the time. With a foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley.Trade Review"A stunning artifact, Scottsboro, Alabamas narrative and images capture the tragedy of race in the American South. I haven't seen anything this tersely powerful in years." -- Nell Irvin Painter,author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol"Wow! This is political art at its most powerful. These evocative images outrage and provoke, leaving an indelible impression of an unjust world at an unjust time. Scottsboro, Alabama will incite you to join the struggle for racial equality and justice." -- Alan Dershowitz,author of Supreme Injustice"This extraordinary graphic book from 1935 reproduces 118 linocuts illustrating the history of African Americans up to and including the Scottsboro trials… the reproductions are excellent, and Lee and Robin D.G. Kelley provide background essays on the trials and the provenance of the book. A welcome addition to all collections… highly recommended." * Library Journal,starred review *"Scottsboro, Alabama...provides a unique graphic history of one of the most infamous, racially-charged episodes in the annals of American justice." * New Voice of New York *"The prints have tremendous visual power...they constitute a progenitor of the contemporary graphic novel that artistically outclasses most current examples of the genre." * Booklist (July 2002) *
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Bodleian Library Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Proclaimed
Book Synopsis‘There are few historical developments more significant than the realisation that those in power should not be free to torture and abuse those who are not.’ – Amal Clooney On 10 December 1948, in Paris, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an extraordinarily ground-breaking and important proclamation: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This milestone document, made up of thirty Articles, sets out, for the first time, the fundamental human rights that must be protected by all nations. The full text of the document is reproduced in this book following a foreword by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and a general introduction which explores its origins in the ‘Four Freedoms’ described by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the role his wife Eleanor Roosevelt took on as chair of the Human Rights Commission and of the drafting committee, and the parts played by other key international members of the Commission. It was a pioneering achievement in the wake of the Second World War and continues to provide a basis for international human rights law, making this document’s aims ‘as relevant today as when they were first adopted a lifetime ago.’
£8.21
Cambridge University Press The Rule of Violence
Book SynopsisOver much of its rule, the regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor Bashar al-Asad deployed violence on a massive scale to maintain its grip on political power. In this book, Salwa Ismail examines the rationalities and mechanisms of governing through violence. In a detailed and compelling account, Ismail shows how the political prison and the massacre, in particular, developed as apparatuses of government, shaping Syrians'' political subjectivities, defining their understanding of the terms of rule and structuring their relations and interactions with the regime and with one another. Examining ordinary citizens'' everyday life experiences and memories of violence across diverse sites, from the internment camp and the massacre to the family and school, The Rule of Violence demonstrates how practices of violence, both in their routine and spectacular forms, fashioned Syrians'' affective life, inciting in them feelings of humiliation and abjection, and infusing their lived environment wiTrade Review'In this highly original, but also deeply disturbing book Salwa Ismail has captured superbly the daily and the spectacular acts of violence that have marked Ba`thist rule in Syria. The cumulative effects of dread, fear and horror on the Syrian subject, conformist as well as resistant, are at the centre of this account, giving a unique insight into the conditions that have torn the country apart.' Charles Tripp, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'The Rule of Violence offers a sophisticated, innovative and powerful examination of the manifold ways in which violence shaped modern Syria. Ismail's theoretically engaged and richly informed narrative traces the deep impact on Syria's citizens of state violence, from the intimate horrors of prison torture and the mass atrocities of the 1982 devastation of Hama to the brutal wars following the uprising of 2011. Ranging from politics and war to literature and popular culture, it stands as a critical contribution to our understanding of the deep legacies of authoritarian state violence.' Marc Lynch, The George Washington University, and author of The New Arab Wars: Anarchy and Uprising in the Middle East'This is a masterful account of how 'horror' came to be a central mode of governance in Syria under the Asad regime. Salwa Ismail's skilful scholarship expands our understanding of state violence through shifting focus to its affective dimensions in both the spectacular and the everyday. This is a powerful and utterly compelling book, a must read for students of Syria and authoritarianism.' Michelle Obeid, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the government of violence; 1. Violence as a modality of government in Syria; 2. Authoritarian government, the shadow state and political subjectivities; 3. Memories of life under dictatorship: the everyday of Ba'thist Syria; 4. Memories of violence: Hama 1982; 5. The performativity of violence and 'emotionalities of rule' in the Syrian Uprising; Conclusion: the rule of violence – formations of civil war; Postscript; References; Index.
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Spinifex Press Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood
Book SynopsisIn this eloquent and blistering rejection of surrogacy, a range of international activists and experts in the field outline the fundamental human rights abuses that occur when surrogacy is legalised and reject neoliberal notions that the commodification of women’s bodies can ever be about the ‘choices’ women make. Yoshie Yanagihara shows how feminist ideas have been twisted to extend men’s freedom and their rights to access surrogacy. Catherine Lynch rails against surrogacy as the creation of babies for the express purpose of removal from their mothers, outlining the tragic outcomes for adopted people. Phyllis Chesler argues that commercial surrogacy is matricidal, “slicing and dicing biological motherhood” into egg donor, ‘gestational’ mother and adoptive mother. Melissa Farley debunks the myth of ‘choice’ in surrogacy, arguing that in a male-dominated and racist system, the exploitative sale of women in surrogacy, like in prostitution, is inherently harmful —rich women do not make the choice to become surrogates or prostitutes. Other contributors to this book, which is published in conjunction with the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood, are Gena Corea, Renate Klein, Gary Powell, Rita Banerji, Marie-Josèphe Devillers, Laura Isabel Gómez García, Alexandra Clément-Saby, Taina Bien-Aimé, Silvia Guerini, Laura Nuño Gómez and Eva Maria Bachinger.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to Human Dignity and Law
Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This thought-provoking introduction provides an incisive overview of dignity law, a field of law emerging in every region of the globe that touches all significant aspects of the human experience. Through an examination of the burgeoning case law in this area, James R. May and Erin Daly reveal a strong overlapping consensus surrounding the meaning of human dignity as a legal right and a fundamental value of nations large and small, and how this global jurisprudence is redefining the relationship between individuals and the state. Key features include: Analyses of cases from a range of jurisdictions all over the world A history of the shift of the concept of dignity from a philosophical idea to a legally enforceable right Discussion of dignity as a value and a right in different major legal contexts, and its roots in African, Asian, European and Islamic traditions. This Advanced Introduction will be invaluable to scholars and students of law, particularly those interested in human rights, looking to understand this emerging area of law. It will inform lawyers, judges, policymakers and other advocates interested in how dignity and the law can be used to protect everyone, including the most vulnerable among us. Trade Review'This book offers a compelling introduction to human dignity, the organizing constitutional idea of the postwar era. Reaching beyond western religion, philosophy, and constitutional law, May and Daly expound an idea that is global in its reach and transformative in its ramifications. This book will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand what a legal order that lived up to the demands of human dignity might look like.' --Jacob Weinrib, Queen's University Faculty of Law, Canada'This book is a very complete contribution to the meaning of dignity seen as a universal value and right, with important insights on legal doctrine and policies all over the world. It demonstrates that, inherent to all of us, dignity implies that every single human being must always be treated as a person.' --Paul Cassia, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France'With this Advanced Introduction to Human Dignity and Law, Professors James R. May and Erin Daly deliver a global perspective on this ''very important idea''. A mine of legal materials gathered from around the world, this volume brings together essential knowledge on human dignity in a concise and engaging manner. Buzzing with energy, Professor May and Professor Daly's Advanced Introduction is a must read for all those promoting dignity rights, as well as all those curious about the great adventure of humanity and democracy.' --Catherine Dupré, University of Exeter, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. A very brief overview of a very important idea 2. Dignity and Human Rights 3. An Emerging Overlapping Consensus on the Meaning of Dignity Under Law 4. The Value of A Life: Intrinsic Worth, Agency, and Autonomy 5. The Life of the Mind: Intellectual and Emotional Integrity 6. Living With Dignity 7. Towards a Democratic Theory of Dignity Index
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Taylor & Francis The InterAmerican Human Rights System
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Ohio University Press Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of
Book SynopsisTaking everyday practices and interactions as their focus, contributors draw on various theoretical perspectives to examine how tensions between humanitarianism and security are negotiated at the local level. They thus show how asylum seekers are produced as suspicious subjects by the very systems to which they appeal for protection.Trade Review“Haas and Shuman aim to clarify how asylum systems are not simply political and legal institutions but ones driven by sociocultural (sociomoral) norms, and succeed very well. Both convincing and convicting, this is a timely and necessary book.”“This is an original and much-needed collection. Haas and Shuman bring together qualitative, largely ethnographic research that is incredibly rich and offers insight into particular localities of the asylum system that do not often emerge in scholarship, such as the roles of interpreters, immigration officers, and aid workers.”
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www.bnpublishing.com Anatomy of the State
£14.24
University of California Press Delano The Story of the California Grape Strike
Book SynopsisIn September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. The strike became a movement for social justice that helped redefine Latino and American politics. Based on first-hand reportage and interviews, this book illuminates a moment of unusually significant social ferment.
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Cambridge University Press Giving the Devil His Due
Book SynopsisWho is the ''Devil''? And what is he due? The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety''s sake because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn''t you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence ''unpleasant'' ideas, what''s to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer. The new collection of essays and articles takes the Devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the Devil his due.Trade Review'Michael Shermer is our most fearless explorer of alternative, crackpot, and dangerous ideas, and at the same time one of our most powerful voices for science, sanity, and humane values. In this engrossing collection, Shermer shows why these missions are consistent: it's the searchlight of reason that best exposes errors and evil.' Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress'This is a rather difficult book for me to blurb, given that an entire chapter is devoted to criticizing my claims about pragmatic truth vis-à-vis scientific truth. However, Dr. Michael Shermer is a very clear thinker, and the kind of skeptic that is always necessary to ensure that public thought, scientific and otherwise, maintains a certain clarity. He's a passionate advocate of free speech, for this and many other reasons - to the point of entitling his new book Giving the Devil His Due, which is devoted to many worthwhile topics, but to free speech above all. Despite our disagreements, this is a necessary book for our times. Read it. And thank God and the powers that be that you have the right to do so.' Jordan B. Peterson, University of Toronto, and author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos'Michael Shermer is a fearless defender of free speech, open inquiry, and freedom of thought and conscience, including - and especially - for those with whom he disagrees. Giving the Devil His Due is one of the strongest bulwarks against the tyranny of censorship that I have read.' Nadine Strossen, New York University, former President of the ACLU, and author of Hate: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship'… a detailed roadmap for thinking well and clearly about interesting and challenging ideas. This vivid, erudite, broad, and deep collection of essays is marvelously written - so much so that, as you finish one essay, you cannot resist starting the next. And the range - from ancient civilizations to the colonization of Mars, from free speech on campus to gun control in cities - is as astonishing as it is engaging.' Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, Ph.D, author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society'As always, Michael Shermer is hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and brilliant. The fascinating essays in this wide-ranging book will make you think - and then rethink.' Amy Chua, Yale University, and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations'Michael Shermer is the voice of reason, and this is a book of his best essays - the ones we most need to read to understand the madness of our time and to imagine a more reasonable future. The range of questions Shermer addresses and the breadth of his knowledge make this book a delight to read.' Jonathan Haidt, New York University, author of The Righteous Mind, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind'Giving the Devil His Due is a treasure trove for lovers of the humanities and society at large as viewed through the perspective of scholarly minds, treatises, and essays. It's marvelously ripened and full of wonderful tales… ' Robert Hunziker, Counterpunch'A powerful case is made here for why free speech is the best way to drive out bad ideas and fake news.' The Times'A collection of skilful elucidations of academic ideas.' Christopher Silvester, The Critic'Each essay is well crafted to provoke thoughtful reflection and amply referenced for those who wish to dig deeper into each topic … However, for any reader new to scepticism, Giving the Devil his Due would be an auspicious place to start.' Don Carpenetti, Chemistry WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction. Who is the Devil and what is he due?; Part I. The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech: 1. Giving the Devil his due: why freedom of inquiry and speech in science and politics is inviolable; 2. Banning evil: in the shadow of the Christchurch massacre, myths about evil and hate speech are misleading; 3. Free speech even if it hurts: defending Holocaust denier David Irving; 4. Free to inquire: the evolution-creationism controversy as a test case in equal time and free speech; 5. Ben Stein's blunder: why intelligent design advocates are not free speech martyrs; 6. What went wrong? Campus unrest, viewpoint diversity, and freedom of speech; Part II. Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion: 7. E pluribus unum for all faiths and for none; 8. Atheism and liberty: raising consciousness for religious skepticism through political freedom; 9. The curious case of Scientology: is it a religion or a cult?; 10. Does the Universe have a purpose?; 11. Why is there something rather than nothing?; Part III. Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society: 12. Another dream deferred: how identity politics, intersectionality theory, and tribal divisiveness are inverting Martin Luther King, Jr's dream; 13. Healing the bonds of affection: the case for classical liberalism; 14. Governing mars: lessons for the red planet from experiments in governing the blue planet; 15. The Sandy Hook effect: what we can and cannot do about gun violence; 16. On guns and tyranny; 17. Debating guns: what conservatives and liberals really differ on about guns (and everything else); 18. Another fatal conceit: the lesson from evolutionary economics is bottom-up self-organization, not top-down government design; Part IV. Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism: 19. Scientific naturalism: a manifesto for Enlightenment humanism; 20. Mr Hume: tear. Down. This. Wall.; 21. Kardashev's types and Sparks' law: how to build civilization 1.0; 22. How lives turn out: genes, environment, and luck – what we can and cannot control; Part V. Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals: 23. Transcendent man: an elegaic essay to Paul Kurtz – a skeptic's skeptic; 24. The real hitch: did Christopher Hitchens really keep two sets of books about his beliefs?; 25. The skeptic's chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a fountainhead of skepticism; 26. Have archetype – will travel: the Jordan Peterson phenomenon; 27. Romancing the past: Graham Hancock and the quest for a lost civilization.
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Harvard University Press Civilizing Torture
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA morally engaging investigation of torture that measures American ideals of democracy and equality against a dark, uncomfortable reality. -- Pulitzer Prize BoardA sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded. From indigenous American cultures’ use of ritualized torture to the techniques imported from Europe by early European settlers, to the various acts of cruelty and violence employed by prison guards, slave owners, the police and American soldiers, Brundage makes the…case that torture is a fundamental part of America’s history and makeup…The work of American torture has always been twofold: not just the violence itself, but the complex legal and rhetorical strategies that obfuscate it away to maintain a myth of America as a civilized place without cruel and unusual punishment. * Los Angeles Times *Understanding the history of torture in the United States will not prevent future violence, but Brundage views this information as providing an important framework for an engaged citizenry… Given that the current occupant of the White House has insisted that torture ‘absolutely’ works and has boasted he ‘would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,’ the lessons of Civilizing Torture feel positively urgent. * Australian Book Review *Torture is a topic that many Americans might assume is a rarity in the country’s history, since it’s now banned by international law. But as the title of this book suggests, the reality is just the opposite…Essential reading for a better understanding of social and political justice. * Library Journal (starred review) *While the American people take pride in their country as democratic and civilized, history has shown that the practice of torture and violence pervades much of its history…This book is important to the historical record and is an invaluable tool for historians and social scientists. * Choice *A remarkable account of America’s episodic engagement with torture over the course of the nation’s history. Brundage uncovers ‘an American tradition’ marked less by legal and moral restraint than by strategies of rhetorical management designed to conserve American innocence and exceptionalism. A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering present. -- David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of AbolitionAn indispensable book. Even as Americans have prided themselves on a civilized standard that is above torture, the United States has actually been engaged in the practice for virtually its entire history. Brundage shows that many of U.S. history’s key moments have involved torture of the most despicable kinds. Here’s hoping that Brundage’s book is the beginning of a new reckoning. -- John Fabian Witt, author of Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American HistoryAmerican claims to constitute a higher form of ‘civilization’ erode in the face of this sobering study of atrocity. With extraordinarily deep and wide-ranging research, Fitzhugh Brundage shows that the American state has repeatedly resorted to savage violence against marginalized groups such as Indians, slaves, and prisoners. Bringing a humane sensibility to an inhumane subject, Brundage forces us to confront our painful past. -- Barbara J. Keys, author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970sThat Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it. -- Lawrence Wilkerson, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy, The College of William and Mary, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, 2002–2005
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New York University Press Queer Forms
Book SynopsisHow do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movements for women's and gay liberationincluding consciousness-raising, separatism, and coming out of the closetwere translated into a range of American popular culture forms. Throughout this period, feminist and gay activists fought social and political battles to expand, transform, or wholly explode definitions of so-called normal gender and sexuality. In doing so, they inspired artists, writers, and filmmakers to invent new ways of formally representing, or giving shape to, non-normative genders and sexualities. This included placing women, queers, and gender outlaws of all stripes into exhilarating new environmentsfrom the streets of an increasingly gay San Francisco to a post-apocalyptic commune, from an Upper East Side New York City apartment to an all-female version of Earthand finding new ways to formally render queTrade ReviewThis is the book I have been waiting for: fearless, brilliant, and filled with love for feminist and queer cultural forms. Rather than fetishizing formlessness as the pinnacle of freedom, Ramzi Fawaz assembles and mines a rich and moving archive of feminist and queer cultural forms that have given us tools to practice intimacy, radical vulnerability, friendship, and worldmaking. Queer Forms was written out of a deep affection for the visionary work of feminist and queer cultural producers, offering us a blueprint for allowing feminist and queer worlds to take shape. * Jennifer C. Nash, author of Birthing Black Mothers *An invigorating work of queer feminist political theory and imagination. Defying the received demand that instances of nonnormative gender identity remain fluid and formless, Ramzi Fawaz dares to present subversive examples of gender and sexual outlaws whose actions track an unfinished project of freedom. In a range of brilliant readings across political movements and cultural texts, he advances new figures of the thinkable and democratic worldmaking that inspire free action in the present. * Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago *Parting ways with queer theory’s preference for the ephemeral, Queer Forms feels the touch and re-touch of shapeshifting forms as it sets queer studies in new and dynamic relation to its objects in the world. In one of his signal claims, Fawaz uses the materiality of form to rethink the pervasive and privileged association of queerness with formlessness and fluidity. Thus, he argues that feminist and queer ideas become meaningful as they take material shape within the realm of popular cultural production, where they change audiences in ways that neither a pedantic politics nor a moralizing theory can. * Matt Brim, author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University *An inspirational history of queer and feminist cultural politics forged in the 1970s and extending to the 1990s. Ramzi Fawaz brilliantly maps the forms of relationality that feminist, lesbian, and gay communities invented to visualize themselves and their futures. In an argument that is both crystalline and capacious, he has discerned patterns across a wide range of popular cultural texts, objects, and images, and he demonstrates how radical change has been—and can be—imagined and enacted. Queer Forms is generously both history and manifesto. It calls on us to ask with each other how we want to see our future take shape. * David J. Getsy, author of Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender *With Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz has examined gender and sexual formlessness illustrated by queer and feminist film, literature and visual culture. This 'shapeshifting' allows for greater evolution, authenticity and intimacy for all. -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *Including detailed footnotes, a thorough bibliography, and illustrative images, this volume will interest and engage those working in the field of women's and gender studies. -- R. Stone (Mt. St. Joseph University) * CHOICE *
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Cornell University Press The World Refugees Made
Book SynopsisIn The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy''s remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessionscolonies, protectorates, and provincesin Africa and the Balkans, the repatriation of Italian nationals from those territories, and the integration of these national refugees into a country devastated by war and overwhelmed by foreign displaced persons from Eastern Europe. Post-World War II Italy served as an important laboratory, in which categories differentiating foreign refugees (who had crossed national boundaries) from national refugees (those who presumably did not) were debated, refined, and consolidated. Such distinctions resonated far beyond that particular historical moment, informing legal frameworks that remain in place today. Offering an alternative genealogy of the postwar international refugee regime, Ballinger focuses on the consequences of one of its key omissions: the ineligibility from international refuTrade ReviewPamela Ballinger has authored a densely documented, conceptually strong, and beautifully written book that compellingly proves the point made by Peter Gatrell and others: Putting the histories of migration center-stage opens up new and productive vistas onto the nations and, indeed, the world refugees made. * H-Africa *While Ballinger's book hopefully encourages more research on this inner-Italian topic, it is already indispensable for the study of twentieth-century internationalism, the postwar refugee regime, and the beginnings of European decolonization. It brilliantly locates Italian decolonization in the context of the emerging postwar international order that redrew borders, redefined citizenship, and handled the global displaced-persons crisis. * American Historical Review *In her recent book, The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger offers a pathbreaking study of how the process of decolonization shaped and affected Italy after 1945. The methodological approaches and arguments developed in The World Refugees Made will certainly inspire a new generation of studies on postwar Europe and refugees. * Contemporanea *The World Refugees Made is a complex and fascinating work that demonstrates how necessary it is to analyze Italy's post–World War II reconstruction as an international and colonial/postcolonial history. It will be informative and intriguing to students and nonspecialists, and challenging and provocative to scholars of its relevant fields. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mobile Histories 1. Empire as Prelude 2. Wartime Repatriations and the Beginnings of Decolonization 3. Italy's Long Decolonization in the Era of Intergovernmentalism 4. Displaced Persons and the Borders of Citizenship 5. Reclaiming Facism, Housing the Nation Conclusion: "We Will Return"
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Brandeis University Press We're Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong
Book SynopsisThe human stories behind the headlines exposing the truth about the guardianship system. The state-run guardianship system, called conservatorship in some states, is largely unregulated, ill-understood, and increasingly populated by financially motivated predators. Just how the secretive world of guardianship works and its real-life effects remained a mystery to most until the very public case of pop star Britney Spears. It suddenly became clear that those conscripted into the system lose all their civil rights in the process. Currently, there are an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Americans under court control, but precise figures are not known as no government entity keeps track of citizens who have lost the right to determine their own fate. Established in the late 1800s, the guardianship system was designed to assist the most vulnerable citizens: the elderly and the physically or intellectually disabled. While guardianship has been beneficial to many “wards of the court,” this little-understood process can be a judicial rollercoaster from which there is seldom an escape, and which often leads to financial devastation for the ward and their families. Each year, fifty billion dollars belonging to wards are placed under the control of court appointees, an obvious temptation to bad actors who are in a position to control these funds. As investigative journalist Diane Dimond discovers, the number of exploitive and abusive guardianship cases nationwide demands our urgent attention. This book also provides concrete steps that families can take to protect themselves, as guardianship can happen to any one of us at any time. Trade Review“Dimond’s ambitious book We’re Here to Help uncovers the devastation caused by mercenary guardians and conservators who exploit their court-appointed powers over vulnerable people. . . . With elements of true crime and self-help, We’re Here to Help advocates for systemic reform as it diagrams the labyrinth of guardian and conservator legal proceedings via wrenching cautionary tales.” * Foreword Reviews *“This book provides clear evidence of the problems within the US guardianship and conservatorship system and how easily it can affect anyone at any time. Readers interested in law, civil rights, and stories about everyday people will be drawn in quickly, but it’s a book for everyone.” * Library Journal *“We’re Here to Help is very well written. The book is both easy to read and well documented. The author provides readers with a snapshot of the national landscape by telling stories of celebrities and ordinary citizens alike who have been victimized in state guardianship proceedings.” * Thomas F. Coleman, the Spectrum Institute’s Quarterly E-Newsletter *“We’re Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong is a rare and illuminating book about how guardianships and conservatorships are routinely mishandled in our courts. Dimond’s well researched case studies of how judges, lawyers, and guardians collude to profit from the fortunes of the elderly and the disabled are an eye-opener. We’re Here to Help is a testament to the immediate need for reform of our guardianship/conservatorship laws.” -- Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell (Ret.), author of Her Honor: My Life on the Bench. . . What Works, What’s Broken, How to Change It“Dimond has written a searing, insightful examination of guardianship that all too often fails those it is supposed to help. As Dimond reveals by close investigation of guardianships gone bad, it is too susceptible to exploitation and theft, and worse, abuse of the so-called ‘incapacitated’ person. Dimond identifies the need for adequate funding of oversight and supervision of guardians. The need is great. The time to act is now.” -- Lawrence A. Frolik, professor of law emeritus and distinguished professor of law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law“A tenacious reporter and skillful writer, Dimond uses compelling stories of real people to pull back the curtain on a guardianship system shrouded in secrecy where power, greed, and influence all too often intersect with devastating consequences for the people the system is intended to protect —and their loved ones. A powerful book.” -- Kent Walz, lawyer, journalist, and former editor-in-chief of The Albuquerque Journal“These stories will break your heart. Private stories and public, the pattern emerges: warring siblings or estranged spouses, a willingness to destroy a person’s waning years to pirate their sometimes substantial estates, all with regrettably minimal judicial oversight. Dimond reports fairly, giving competing versions of events equal space. If you read one book this year, We’re Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong should be it.” -- Jack Furlong, attorney at Furlong and Krasny, New Jersey“Dimond’s explanation of what has gone wrong—and continues to go wrong—in our nation’s court system is timely and important information for all of us. To those who truly want to protect incapacitated adults, I urge you to please read this book.” -- Lisa MacCarley, conservatorship attorney, CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Floodgates Open Chapter 2: The Case Heard ‘Round the World Chapter 3: The Players Chapter 4: Britney is Not Alone Chapter 5: So, How Might It Work? Chapter 6: Guardians From Hell – and Lawyers and Judges Too Chapter 7: How Do the Dishonest Get Away With It? Chapter 8: What Will it Take Before Washington Acts? Chapter 9: Weaponizing Guardianship to End a Marriage Chapter 10: The Disabled Still Have Civil Rights Chapter 11: Turning a Blind Eye - Where’s the Legal Community? Chapter 12: The Cowgirl vs. Conservator Chapter 13: The Richer the Better Chapter 14: Desperate is as Desperate Does Chapter 15: Service to the Nation Doesn’t Matter Chapter 16: Guarding Against Guardianship Chapter 17: Possible Solutions to Fix the System Chapter 18: Final Mentions
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Cornell University Press Women Life Freedom
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Teaching Business and Human Rights
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Teaching Business and Human Rights covers a broad range of foundational topics as well as special thematic issues. It contains accessible contributions from leading scholars and practitioners. I have no doubt that this book will be a valuable resource for anyone teaching business and human rights at universities or in other settings.’ -- Surya Deva, Macquarie University, Australia‘Anthony Ewing is unquestionably one of the pioneers of the modern business and human rights movement, having taught many of the leading figures in the field. Teaching Business and Human Rights is the culmination of decades of experience in the classroom and in the field, with original contributions from distinguished experts and rising stars. The book contains throughout a masterful combination of intellectual rigor with practical, on the ground, insights and case studies. Students and teachers alike will find it a pleasure to use in the classroom.’ -- Michael A. Santoro, Santa Clara University, US, Co-Founder, Business and Human Rights JournalTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Teaching Business and Human Rights 1 Anthony Ewing PART I FOUNDATIONAL TOPICS 2 Corporate responsibility 13 Florian Wettstein 3 Human rights 26 Anthony Ewing 4 Labor rights 43 Angela B. Cornell 5 The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights 58 Anthony Ewing 6 Right to remedy 74 Lisa J. Laplante PART II BUSINESS PRACTICE 7 Corporations 88 Jena Martin 8 Human rights due diligence 100 Robert McCorquodale and Daria Davitti 9 Human rights impact assessment 113 Mark Wielga 10 Non-governmental human rights grievance mechanisms 129 Mark Wielga PART III CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY 11 Mandatory human rights due diligence 144 Claire Bright and Nicolas Bueno 12 Judicial remedy 160 Rachel Chambers 13 The Alien Tort Statute 176 Anthony Ewing 14 Complicity 187 Anthony Ewing 15 The OECD National Contact Point Mechanism 203 Elizabeth Umlas 16 Multistakeholder human rights initiatives 218 Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and Michael Posner 17 Business and human rights in the Inter-American System 229 Humberto Cantú Rivera PART IV KEY ISSUES 18 Modern slavery in supply chains 243 Justine Nolan 19 Human rights and the environment 263 Sara L. Seck 20 Land rights 278 Mina Manuchehri and Beth Roberts 21 Rights of Indigenous Peoples 292 Kendyl Salcito 22 The right to food 310 Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile 23 The right to water 324 Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile 24 Technology and human rights 339 Faris Natour and Roger McElrath 25 Engineering for human rights 352 Shareen Hertel, Davis Chacon Hurtado, and Sandra Sirota 26 Finance, investors, and human rights 364 Erika George and Ariel Meyerstein 27 Accounting for human rights 383 John Ferguson 28 Mega-sporting events and human rights 396 Daniela Heerdt 29 Trade and human rights 409 Margaret E. Roggensack and Eric R. Biel 30 Business and conflict 423 Salil Tripathi Bibliography 441 Index
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd International Brigade Against Apartheid
Book SynopsisThis book reads like a war-time thriller.We hear for the first time from internationalists who secretly worked for the ANC''s armed wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid rule. They acted as couriers, provided safe houses in the neighbouring states and within South Africa, helped infiltrate combatants across borders, and smuggled tonnes of weapons into the country in the most creative of ways.Driven by a spirit of international solidarity, they were prepared to take huge risks and face danger which dogged them at every turn. At least three were captured and served long terms of imprisonment, while others were arrested and, following international pressure, deported.They reveal what motivated them as volunteers, not mercenaries, who gained nothing for their endeavours save for the self-esteem in serving a just cause.Against such clandestine involvement, the book includes contributions from key role players in
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Atlantic Books The Inevitable: Stories of Life, Choice and the
Book SynopsisBOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR AND THE TIMES'Fascinating.... Deeply disturbing... Brilliant' Sunday Times'Powerful and moving.' Louis TherouxMeet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? And by whom?In The Inevitable, award-winning journalist Katie Engelhart explores one of our most abiding taboos: assisted dying. From Avril, the 80-year-old British woman illegally importing pentobarbital, to the Australian doctor dispensing suicide manuals online, Engelhart travels the world to hear the stories of those on the quest for a 'good death'.At once intensely troubling and profoundly moving, The Inevitable interrogates our most uncomfortable moral questions. Should a young woman facing imminent paralysis be allowed to end her life with a doctor's help? Should we be free to die painlessly before dementia takes our mind? Or to choose death over old age? A deeply reported portrait of everyday people struggling to make impossible decisions, The Inevitable sheds crucial light on what it means to flourish, live and die.Trade ReviewThere's plenty of compassion, plenty of nuance and plenty of complex thought. Engelhart is a skilled storyteller... Her brilliant book should be prescribed to all those who think they have a clear view [on the right to die]. * Sunday Times *Powerful and moving. Engelhart recounts the stories of those she meets with humanity and grace. * Louis Theroux, bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This *Deeply researched and beautifully reported... [Engelhart] writes compassionately of her subjects' struggles. * The Economist *A brilliantly sensitive and deeply moving account of assisted dying. * Stephen Westaby, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fragile Lives *Table of Contents0: Introduction 1: Modern Medicine 2: Age 3: Body 4: Memory 5: Mind 6: Freedom 7: The End
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Penguin Putnam Inc Building the Great Society
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Queering Asylum in Europe: Legal and Social
Book SynopsisThis two-volume open-access book offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded portrayal of the experiences of people claiming international protection in Europe on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI). It shows how European asylum systems might and should treat asylum claims based on people’s SOGI in a fairer, more humane way. Through a combined comparative, interdisciplinary (socio-legal), human rights, feminist, queer and intersectional approach, this book examines not only the legal experiences of people claiming asylum on grounds of their SOGI, but also their social experiences outside the asylum decision-making framework. The authors analyse how SOGI-related claims are adjudicated in different European frameworks (European Union, Council of Europe, Germany, Italy and UK) and offer detailed recommendations to adequately address the intersectional experiences of individuals seeking asylum. This unique approach ensures that the book is of interest not only to researchers in migration and refugee studies, law and wider academic communities, but also to policy makers and practitioners in the field of SOGI asylum.Trade ReviewThis book is a timely and enormously important contribution to the field of refugee studies. This work situates SOGI asylum seekers in context by addressing both the legal issues and lived experiences of refugees seeking protection in Germany, Italy and the UK, and by interweaving analysis of RSD with interviews and observational data. This makes a valuable addition to interdisciplinary and comparative work on both SOGI applicants and European asylum systems.Jenni Millbank, Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia)This ambitious volume presents a wealth of research. Anchored in theory as well as in the stories of SOGI asylum seekers and refugees, the book admirably blends concepts, frames and insights of refugee law and policy, with human rights as well as feminist and queer studies. It offers sophisticated scholarly analysis as well as policy recommendations. It is likely to become a key reference in this field.Eva Brems, Professor of Human Rights Law at Ghent University (Belgium)I find the publication of this book, which explores the social and legal experiences of people across Europe claiming international protection on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI), particularly timely and appropriate. The European Court of Human Rights is regularly confronted with this kind of issues. A recent case, still pending before the Court (B. v. Switzerland, no. 43987/16), concerns the alleged risk of treatment in breach of Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights faced by a homosexual man in the event of his being returned to Gambia. The Court gave notice of the application to the Swiss Government and put questions to the parties under Article 3 of the Convention. No doubt the material collected in the book is certainly helpful when dealing with this kind of sensitive cases, not only at the level of the European Court, but also for national judges, who are clearly on the frontline in this connection.Guido Raimondi, former judge and President of the European Court of Human RightsRainbow Railroad exists to find hundreds of LGBTQI people facing persecution due to state sponsored homophobia and transphobia, a pathway to safety. As such, a timely and urgently needed analysis of the arduous challenges LGBTIQ+ refugees face in the European refugee system, Queering Asylum in Europe skilfully unravels and examines the legal, political, and socio-economic layers that currently contextualize the experience of queer asylum seekers on both a national and EU-wide level. Throughout the book, the ambitious empirical analysis centres on the struggles of this double marginalized group and exposes the inherent weaknesses of asylum systems in Germany, Italy, and the UK. Its findings on discriminatory practices, transphobia, and the stereotyping of LGBTIQ+ individuals in the processing of refugee applications are a harsh reminder that we need to do better to serve those who need it most. Queering Asylum in Europe delivers evidence-based recommendations on how we can accomplish this and constitutes a valuable resource for policy leaders and non-profit organizations – and anybody committed to bettering the lives of the global LGBTIQ+ community.Kimahli Powell, Executive Director at Rainbow Railroad (Canada)As a lesbian refugee and founder of a charity, African Rainbow Family, that supports over 500 LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum in the UK, it is safe to say that Queering Asylum in Europe is a true representation of what life is for anyone seeking sanctuary based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. The wealth of resources contained in this book will in no doubt be useful for professionals supporting or planning to support LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum. Decision-makers will also find it useful in guiding their decisions and policies in relation to claiming asylum due to sexual orientation and/or gender identity.Aderonke Apata, founder of African Rainbow Family (UK)Queering Asylum in Europe is a result of hard work and dedication by authors Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira and Nina Held, who have been working on the SOGI asylum system and the legality revolving around it for four long years. The empirical data and the results thereof are a proof of the commitment that the authors and participants have/had towards SOGI cases in Europe. The book follows a systematic order of contents with empirical evidences to make it easy for the reader to see the facts and draw their own conclusion on the given matters in each chapter. I would recommend this book to all people who are working in this field so that you can find more solutions to the existing situations of SOGI asylum claimants in Europe.Lilith Raza, LSVD Queer Refugees Deutschland (Germany)Table of ContentsPart 1 – Contextualising SOGI asylum research1. Why SOGI asylum?2. Our methodologyPart 2 – Theoretically underpinning SOGI asylum research3. A human rights perspective4. A feminist perspective5. A queer perspectivePart 3 – The legal experiences of SOGI asylum claimants6. The policy and guidance7. The decision-making procedure8. The substantive analysis of asylum claimsPart 4 – The social experiences of SOGI asylum claimants and refugees9. Housing and accommodation10. Health, work and education11. Civil society, NGOs, Third Sector and support networksPart 5 – Forging a new future for SOGI asylum in Europe12. The European SOGI asylum panorama13. Believing in something better: Our recommendationsAnnexes Tables of field work participants (online)Interview schedules and survey questions (online)Tables of case law (online)
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University of Minnesota Press Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless
Book SynopsisUncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundingsCallous Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger examines such commonplace devices as garbage cans, fences, signage, and benches—all of which reveal political agendas beneath the surface. Such objects have evolved, through a confluence of design and law, to be open to some uses and closed to others, but always capable of participating in collective ends on a large scale. Rosenberger brings together ideas from the philosophy of technology, social theory, and feminist epistemology to spotlight the widespread anti-homeless ideology built into our communities and enacted in law.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Trade Review"Callous Objects provides an incredibly clear and concise introduction to the key ideas in Science and Technology Studies that animate much of the current literature on homelessness and the built form. It is an essential reading for academics, both undergraduate and advanced scholars, and practitioners of policy, planning, and law."—Contemporary Political Theory "This short, vivid and novel book serves as a timely reminder that our public spaces are not experienced equally." —LSE Review of Books "In this small-but-powerful book, Robert Rosenberger delves into the objects and laws that target the homeless. The book balances its philosophical bent with a hard look at how cities and governments counter a homeless presence." —Metropolis
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James Currey The African Garrison State: Human Rights &
Book SynopsisExamines Eritrea's deprivation of human rights since independence and its transformation into a militarised "garrison state", updated to include the recent UN Commission of Inquiry and the new geopolitical dynamics. When Eritrea gained independence in 1991, hopes were high for its transformation. In two decades however, it became one of the most repressive in the world, effectively a militarised "garrison state". This comprehensive and detailed analysis examines how the prospects for democracy in the new state turned to ashes, reviewing its development, and in particular the loss of human rights and the state's political organisation. Beginning with judicial development in independent Eritrea, subsequent chapters scrutinise the rule of law and the court system; the hobbled process of democratisation, and the curtailment of civil society; the Eritrean prison system and everyday life of detention and disappearances; and the situation of minorities in the country. While the situation is bleak, it is not without hope: the epilogue describes the recent UN Commission of Inquiry process, the renewed international dialogue with Asmara and the new geopolitical dynamics. Kjetil Tronvoll is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. ; Daniel Mekonnen is the Executive Director of the Eritrean Law Society, and a Guest Writer at the Writers in Exile Program of the Swiss-German PEN Centre in Luzern, Switzerland. Formerly, he was Judge of the Central Provincial Court in Asmara, Eritrea.Trade Review2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title * . *The book will be well received by a wider readership, particularly among students of African regimes. . . . It will certainly stimulate and inform an ongoing debate on the national identity and constitutional future of Eritrea. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *This fantastically dense, thorough, rich, comprehensive tome breaks down Eritrean contemporary statehood and civil society in a way that should be copied as a model for modern political/national security case studies. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Eritrean African garrison state Judicial development in independent Eritrea: Legal pluralism and political containment Rule of law(lessness) in Eritrea: The special court and the judiciary Democratic curtailment in Eritrea: 'Never democracy, always control!' Obliterating civil society in Eritrea: Denying freedom of organisation and expression The Eritrean Gulag archipelago: Prison conditions, torture and extrajudicial killings Everyday life of detention and disappearances in Eritrea: Vulnerable groups in a population under siege Minority marginalisation in Eritrea: EPLF's politics of cultural superiority Diversity diminished in Eritrea: Targeting the Kunama minority group The militarisation of Eritrean society: Omnipresent and neverending military service Eritrea? Towards a transition? Postscript: Eritrea - renewed international engagement to sustain control at home
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Little, Brown & Company America Is Better Than This: Trump's War Against
Book SynopsisJeff Merkley couldn't believe his eyes. He never dreamed the United States could treat vulnerable young families like caged animals. No outsider had witnessed what Merkley discovered just by showing up at the border and demanding to see what was going on behind closed doors.Behind the official stories and soothing videos, he found mothers and children, new-born babies and infants, locked into ice-cold cages in makeshift prisons, or camping in blistering heat at the border. There were internment camps with no running water. There were disused supermarkets overflowing with more than a thousand young boys, locked up with nothing to keep them sane or active each day.This was how the Trump administration treated the victims of the unspeakable violence that had driven them from their homes: as dangerous criminals whose spirits needed to be broken.It was Merkley's visits -- captured live on viral video -- that triggered worldwide outrage at the forced separation of children from their parents. Just by taking an interest -- by caring about the people legally claiming asylum at America's borders -- Merkley helped expose the Trump administration's war on migrant families. Along the way, he helped turn the tide against some of its worst excesses.FREE THEM! tells the inside story of how a junior senator, with no background of being an immigration activist, became one of the leading advocates for reform of the brutal policies that have created a new humanitarian crisis on the southern US border. It represents the heartfelt and candid voice of a concerned American who believes his country stands for something far bigger and better than the punishment of immigrants who are no different from so many of the people who built the United States.
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CABI Publishing Modern Day Slavery and Orphanage Tourism
Book SynopsisOrphanage tourism is where tourist interactions with 'orphaned' children are central to traveller itineraries and experience making in less-developed contexts. While appealing to the desire of tourists and volunteers to 'do good' while travelling, underlining orphanage tourism is the fact that the vast majority of children (over 80%) in orphanages and allied care institutions are not orphans. Instead, children are often placed in institutions due to poverty and hardship, and as victims of human trafficking. In some cases, orphanages can be for-profit enterprises, where the commodification of good intentions begins and becomes embedded in the tourism supply chain. Children are becoming tourist attractions and the focus of tourist consumption, leading to orphanages as sites of tourism production and consumption. The first of its kind, this book highlights exploratory research that examines the links between modern slavery practices and orphanage tourism. Contributors include academics and practitioners with a long engagement in advocacy for the rights and protection of children and research into sustainable and responsible tourism. Written in an accessible manner that appeals to a broad audience. This book will appeal to researchers interested in the areas of tourism, human geography, development studies, childhood studies, law and social justice, as well as those interested in responsible and sustainable travel. Practitioners, policy makers and civil society groups working at the vanguard of tourism expansion and communities in less-developed contexts - particularly where labour rights transgressions, human exploitation and trafficking are prevalent - will also find the book insightful. Royalties from the sales of this book will be donated to Save the Children Australia and the Forget Me Not Foundation.Table of ContentsPart I: Orphanage Tourism, Modern Slavery and Convention on the Rights of the Child Chapter 1: Orphanage Tourism and the Convention on the Rights of the Child Chapter 2: Orphanages as sites of Modern Slavery Chapter 3: Historical and socio-political drivers of Australian participation in orphanage tourism in Bali Part II: Institutionalisation Chapter 4: People, money and resources: The drivers of institutionalisation Chapter 5: Promising Practices: Strengthening families and systems to prevent and reduce the institutional care of children Part III: Voluntourism Chapter 6: What drives voluntourism? Internal Impulses and External Encouragement Chapter 7: How filmmaking can support advocacy: The voluntourist and orphanage tourism Chapter 8: Consuming poverty: Volunteer tourism in an orphanage in Nepal Part IV: A counter narrative Chapter 9: A “nice, knock-down argument” about orphanage tourism, modern slavery, and the power and peril of naming
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Between the Lines A Beauty That Hurts Life and Death in Guatemala
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Harvard University Press The Terrorist Album
Book SynopsisHistorian and journalist Jacob Dlamini investigates one of three surviving copies of the “terrorist album,” a rogue’s gallery of apartheid’s political enemies collected over decades by South Africa’s security police. From the photos emerges the afterlife of apartheid, as Dlamini tells the story of former insurgents, collaborators, and police.Trade ReviewIn The Terrorist Album, Jacob Dlamini has managed to reconstruct some of apartheid South Africa’s most violent and disturbing episodes, despite the former regime’s extensive efforts to erase its crimes and cover its tracks. Using archival evidence and detailed interviews with both perpetrators and their victims’ families, Dlamini, a superb historian and memoirist, has excavated a story that otherwise would have been hidden and forgotten. -- Sasha Polakow-Suransky, author of The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South AfricaThe Terrorist Album is wise, humane, and thoroughly original. With one artifact, Jacob Dlamini opens worlds: of history, of biography, of the archive, of photography and philosophy. With characteristic flair and insight, he offers a compelling narrative of the workings of repressive violence and the way human beings are crushed by it, or manage to transcend it. -- Mark Gevisser, author of A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream and Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A MemoirEnables us to look anew at the brutality and bureaucracy that marked apartheid policing…The Terrorist Album traces the evolution of policing in South Africa: how it grew more and more depraved in its desperation to counter the state’s political illegitimacy…The human loss it uncovers is painful, yet there is also a hopeful side to the story…[It] arrives at a time when this widespread cover-up is once again the subject of public conversation in South Africa. -- Bongani Kona * The Baffler *A harrowing descent into the hell of apartheid via documents the regime neglected to destroy. One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter, and such people are made, not born…The apartheid regime created many through its campaign of repression and separation…Perhaps the greatest takeaway is [Dlamini’s] observation that no matter how a government tries to obliterate the past, it can never do so completely. An important document in the history of the apartheid era. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *A monumental work of remembrance…Dlamini’s writing is lucid and captivating, moving between historical fact and careful biographical reconstruction. It is an invaluable addition to the greater and ongoing project of restoring to South Africans a history that some sought to erase and evade. -- Marianne Thamm * Daily Maverick *[A] remarkable book that invites a long-overdue reckoning…Dlamini navigates the underside of apartheid and its long shadow by asking difficult questions that few other scholars or journalists have had the nerve to investigate…Turns his attention more fully to the nature of the apartheid state and the bureaucratic, if no less nasty, security apparatus that netted the ANC defectors…Dlamini is a reliable guide to the dimmer paths of the apartheid state in its dying throes. As those shadowed trails begin to fade with memory, we may need to rely ever more on his insights. -- Alex Lichtenstein * Public Books *Dlamini continues storytelling centered around the seemingly untold stories of the apartheid era. -- Fatima Moosa * Daily Vox *A timely and important contribution. More significantly, it is a thought-provoking and unsettling examination of the apartheid state, its authoritarian bureaucracy, and its security apparatus through one artefact, the so-called Terrorist Album. -- Lennart Bolliger * South African Historical Journal *A compelling study of the mechanics of apartheid from the inside…Dlamini tells the life history of state documents used to compel, bend, persecute, pressure, torture, and ultimately in some cases kill the opponents of the white supremacist state, the so-called Terrorist Album. This is a history of memory, of forgetting, of violence, and of state failure. -- Benjamin N. Lawrance * African Studies Review *
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Penguin Books Ltd Rights of Man
Book SynopsisOne of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - all considered dangerous and even seditious issues. In his introduction Eric Foner presents an overview of Paine''s career as political theorist and pamphleteer, and supplies essential background material to Rights of Man. He discusses how Paine created a language of modern politics that brought important issues to the common man and the working classes and assesses the debt owed to Paine by the American and British radical traditions.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Eric FonerSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextRIGHTS OF MANNotes to Part OneNotes to Part Two
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Formation of a Persecuting Society
Book SynopsisThe tenth to the thirteenth centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the Inquisition, the expropriation and mass murder of Jews, and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy and curtail their civil rights. These were traditionally seen as distinct and separate developments, and explained in terms of the problems which their victims presented to medieval society. In this stimulating book, first published in 1987 and now widely regarded as a a classic in medieval history, R. I. Moore argues that the coincidences in the treatment of these and other minority groups cannot be explained independently, and that all are part of a pattern of persecution which now appeared for the first time to make Europe become, as it has remained, a persecuting society. In this new edition, R. I. Moore updates and extends his original argument with a new, final chapter, A Persecuting Society. Here and in a new preface and criTrade Review"One of the most influential and controversial books of medieval history of the last 20 years ... The relevance of its argument today is uncanny." The Guardian Praise for the first edition: "A brilliant account of medieval Europe...it is a pleasure to read an account that is so obviously of importance for our own societies, yet is conceived in a full international context." Times Higher Education Supplement "A fundamental work of historical sociology, as important in its way as the works of Georges Duby and Mark Bloch...a courageous and wide-ranging thesis." M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Introduction. 1. Persecution. Heretics. Jews. Lepers. The Common Enemy. 2. Classification. 3. Purity and Danger. 4. Power and Reason. 5. A Persecuting Society. Bibliographical Excursus: Debating the Persecuting Society. Bibliography. Index
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Colourpoint Creative Ltd Stand Up, Speak Out: My Life Working for Women's
Book SynopsisBy the age of ten, Monica McWilliams was dispensing payouts in her granny’s post office, book-keeping for her cattle-dealer father and leaving no one in any doubt that she could stand up for herself. She went on to break the mould in so many ways, as a woman, as an activist and as a politician. In this frank and fascinating memoir, she tells her extraordinary story for first time. Now Emeritus Professor of the Transnational Justice Institute, Monica also chairs the Governing Board of the international NGO Interpeace and has worked with and for women in conflict societies including in South America and the Middle East. She is author of a number of journal articles, essays and reports on family and sexual matters; domestic violence; and human rights in Northern Ireland. This is her first book. Anyone interested in Ireland, ending conflicts, making lasting peace, defending human rights, women in politics and feminism will love this book. Hillary Clinton As co-founder of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, Monica McWilliams undoubtedly played one of the most pivotal roles in the Northern Ireland peace process. This is a stunning read ... one of Ireland’s greatest women activists. Bertie Ahern An unmissable memoir of a soaring hope for justice and peace, and of shocking misogyny. Women are so often written out of the history they make; women like Monica McWilliams make their voices heard, with humour and grace. Lyse Doucet, BBC chief international correspondent
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Monitoring State Compliance with the UN
Book SynopsisThis open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. For each article of the UNCRC, the authors explore the nature and scope of corresponding State obligations, and identify the main features that need to be taken into consideration when assessing a State’s progressive implementation of the UNCRC. This analysis considers which aspects of a given right are most important to track, in order to monitor States' implementation of any given right, and whether there is any resultant change in the lives of children. This approach transforms the narrative of legal international standards concerning a given right into a set of characteristics that ensure no aspect of said right is overlooked. The book develops a clear and comprehensive understanding of the UNCRC that can be used as an introduction to the rights and principles it contains, and to identify directions for future policy and strategy development in compliance with the UNCRC. As such, it offers an invaluable reference guide for researchers and students in the field of childhood and children’s rights studies, as well as a wide range of professionals and organisations concerned with the subject.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Part I: General Principles Chapter 2: Article 2 - The right to non-discriminationChapter 3: Article 3 - The best interest of the childChapter 4: Article 6 - The rights to life, survival, and developmentChapter 5: Article 12 - The right to be heardPart 2: Civil and Political RightsChapter 6: Article 7 - The right to a name, nationality, and to know and be cared for by parentsChapter 7: Article 8 - The right to preservation of identityChapter 8: Article 13 - The right to freedom of expressionChapter 9: Article 14 - The right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religionChapter 10: Article 15 - The right to freedom of association and assemblyChapter 11: Article 16 - The right to protection of privacyChapter 12: Article 17 - The right to access to diverse sources of informationPart 3: Family Environment and Alternative Care RightsChapter 13: Article 5 - The right to parental guidance consistent with the evolving capacity of the childChapter 14: Article 9 - The right not to be separated from parentsChapter 15: Article 10 - The right to family reunificationChapter 16: Article 11 - The right to protection from illicit transfer and non-return of children abroadChapter 17: Article 18 - Rights concerning parental responsibilityChapter 18: Article 20 - Rights concerning children deprived of their family environmentChapter 19: Article 21 - AdoptionChapter 20: Article 25 - The right to periodic review of treatment and all other circumstances of placementPart 4: Disability, Health, and Welfare RightsChapter 21: Article 23 - The rights of children with disabilitiesChapter 22: Article 24 - The right to healthChapter 23: Article 26 - The right to benefit from social securityChapter 24: Article 27 - The right to a standard of living adequate for physical, mental, spiritual, moral, and social developmentChapter 25: Article 33 - The right to protection from illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substancesPart 5: Education, Leisure, and Cultural Activities RightsChapter 26: Article 28 - The right to educationChapter 27: Article 29 - The aims of educationChapter 28: Article 30 - Cultural, religious, and linguistic rights of minority or indigenous childrenChapter 29: Article 31 - The rights to rest, play, recreation, and cultural and artistic activitiesPart 6: Protection Measures from ViolenceChapter 30: Article 19 - The right to protection from all forms of violenceChapter 31: Article 37 - Prohibition of torture, capital punishment, and arbitrary deprivation of libertyChapter 32: Article 39 - The right to physical and psychological recovery of child victimsPart 7: Protection Measures from ExploitationChapter 33: Article 32 - The right to protection from economic exploitation and hazardous activitiesChapter 34: Article 34 - The right to protection from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuseChapter 35: Article 36 - The right to protection from other forms of exploitationPart 8: Protection Measures for Children in Vulnerable SituationsChapter 36: Article 22 - The right to protection for refugee and asylum-seeking childrenChapter 37: Article 35 - Prevention of abduction, sale, and traffickingChapter 38: Article 38 - The right to protection from armed conflictChapter 39: Article 40 - The rights in the juvenile justice settingPart 9: General Measures of ImplementationChapter 40: Article 1 - Definition of a child Chapter 41: Article 4 - States Parties’ obligationsChapter 42: Articles 42 and 44(6) - Making the Convention and States Parties’ compliance widely known
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HarperCollins Publishers India Legally Yours
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Yale University Press John Lewis
Book SynopsisThe first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John LewisTrade Review“The perfect book, at the right time.”—Michael Henry Adams, The Guardian“Deeply researched and accessible. . . . A substantial entry in Yale’s Black Lives series.”—Matthew F. Delmont, New York Times Book Review“If you liked King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig, read John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community, by Raymond Arsenault.”—Washington Post“John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community examines a rare journey from protest leader to career politician, buffeted by the winds of Black nationalism, debates over the acceptability of violence and perennial tensions between purity and pragmatism.”—David Smith, The Guardian“Beautifully written and deeply researched, Arsenault’s biography of John Lewis captures his indomitable courage and steadfast moral clarity.”— Mia Bay, author of Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance“Arsenault’s highly readable book presents us not just with an indispensable chronicle of a transformative era, but with the portrait of a remarkable human being whose character and vision challenge us all to live up to both his ideals and his sacrifices.”—Drew Gilpin Faust, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor and President Emerita, Harvard University“This is a lovely, honest, and thorough book about an American hero who should be better known.”—Thomas E. Ricks, author of Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954–1968“An inspiring and movingly drawn portrait of a true American hero who, armed only with raw moral courage, managed to leave his beloved nation better than he found it.”—Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., author of Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith
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Yale University Press Our Palestine Question
Book SynopsisA new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights Trade Review“Overturning conventional understandings of American Jewry’s relations with Israel during the state’s formative decades, Geoffrey Levin depicts a long arc of American Jewish concern and protest over Israeli treatment of Palestinians. Meticulously researched and powerfully argued, Levin’s book provides essential background for the current state of Israel-diaspora relations.”—Derek Penslar, Harvard University“Intelligent, compelling, and riveting. Levin gives us, for the first time, a truly transnational history of the relationship between American Jews and Israel.”— Melani McAlister, George Washington University“Geoffrey Levin’s engrossing study powerfully dismantles conventional wisdom about the attitudes and activities of American Jewish communal leadership vis-à-vis Palestinian rights in the decades after 1948. The result is a book that should be read by all interested in the past and future of justice in Israel/Palestine.”—James Loeffler, author of Rooted Cosmopolitans
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Open University Press SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY
Book Synopsis In what ways does contemporary surveillance reinforce social divisions? How are police and consumer surveillance becoming more similar as they are automated? Are we forced to choose between classical and poststructuralist approaches in explaining surveillance? Why is surveillance both expanding globally and focusing more on the human body? Surveillance Society takes a post-privacy approach to surveillance with a fresh look at the relations between technology and society. Personal data is collected from us all the time, whether we know it or not, through identity numbers, camera images, or increasingly by other means such as fingerprint and retinal scans. This book examines the constant computer-based scrutiny of ordinary daily life for citizens and consumers as they participate in contemporary societies. It argues that to understand what is happening we have to go beyond Orwellian alarms and cries for more privacy to see how such surveillance Table of ContentsSeries editor's forewordPreface and acknowledgementsIntroductionPart one: Surveillance societiesDisappearing bodiesInvisible frameworksLeaky containersPart two: The spread of surveillanceSurveillant sorting in the cityBody parts and probesGlobal dataflowsPart three: Surveillance scenariosNew directions in theoryThe politics of surveillanceThe future of surveillanceBibliographyIndex.
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New York University Press The United States and Torture Interrogation
Book SynopsisDetails the complicity of the United States government in the torture and cruel treatment of prisoners both at home and abroad and discusses what can be done to hold those who set the torture policy accountableTrade Review"An excellent addition to the cannon of work relating to the post-9/11 embrace of torture by the Bush Administration as well as the subsequent erosion of constitutional and international legal principles." -- Adam L. Kress * Law and Politics Book Review *"This gripping collection of essays explores how the United States has used torture both domestically and abroad since the 1950s . . . Strongly recommended to any reader interested in developing a deeper understanding of the government's torture policies." -- Rachel Bridgewater * Library Journal *"A critical collection of essays on the United States descent into torture. The contributors, who include some of the nations most important human rights advocates and scholars, tell the untold story of how the country that was instrumental in drafting the Convention Against Torture has itself violated that documents fundamental obligations, and what we should do about it." -- David Cole,author of The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable"A magnificent, though deeply disturbing collection of essays on torture, considering its history, its use since September 11, and the obstacles to holding those responsible accountable. This is the best collection of essays on the topic and it leaves no doubt that the nation has not yet come to grips with the inhumanity perpetrated under the guise of national security." -- Erwin Chemerinsky,Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine, School of Law"Because whistleblowers leaked the Abu Ghraib photos and some of the torture memos, the torture and abuse committed by the United States entered the national discourse. This book is the result of those efforts and this critical work by leading scholars and journalists who courageously provide a roadmap for holding Bush officials accountable for their war crimes." -- Daniel Ellsberg,author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers"This book is incredible. The truth is right there on the pages, assembled for everyone to see and read and understand. Finally. Accountability is the first step in healing as a nation. The last line of the final chapter says it all: & Let us begin. Indeed, we must." -- Janis L. Karpinski,author of One Woman's Army: The Commanding General"This is an extraordinarily important book. Marjorie Cohn has gathered some of the most knowledgeable and thoughtful voices who understand and oppose the horrific decision by the Bush/Cheney administration to employ torture to fight terrorists. In these pages they explain not only what was done but why it was so terribly wrong." -- John W. Dean,former Nixon White House counsel and author of Conservatives Without Conscience"If this collection of authoritative and proficient essays does not convince every reader that key Bush officials and their lawyers should be prosecuted, it leaves no doubt that probable cause exists to justify the Justice Department opening a series of comprehensive investigations with ample resources and subpoena power to determine whether such crimes were committed and whether indictments should be issued...Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and anyone who cares about restoring respect for the Rule of Law in America should first read The United States and Torture, and then do the right thing." * The Los Angeles Daily Journal *"The United States of Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuseis an interdisciplinary work detailing U.S. participation in torture and cruel treatment of prisoners both at home and abroad and discusses what can be done to hold those who set the torture policy accountable." * Z Magazine *"Marjorie Cohn, law professor and president of the National Lawyers Guild, has collected 14 incisive and comprehensive essays which, taken together, serve as a detailed indictment of the Bush administration for its acts of commission and the Obama administration for its acts of omission." * San Francisco Daily Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Sister Dianna Ortiz Introduction: An American Policy of Torture Marjorie Cohn Part I: The History and Character of Torture 1 Mind MazeAlfred W. McCoy 2 Torture and Human Rights Abuses at the School of Americas-WHINSECBill Quigley 3 U.S. Foreign Policy, Deniability, and the Political "Utility" of State TerrorTerry Lynn Karl 4 Fundamental Human Rights and the Coercive Interrogation of Terrorists in an Extreme EmergencyJohn W. Lango 5 Torture, War, and the Limits of Liberal LegalityRichard FalkPart II: Torture and Cruel Treatment of Prisoners in U.S. Custody 6 Outsourcing TortureJane Mayer 7 This Is To Whom It May ConcernMarc D. Falkoff 8 Psychologists, Torture, and Civil SocietyStephen Soldz 9 From Guantanamo to BerlinMichael Ratner 10 Mass Torture in AmericaLance TapleyPart III: Accountability for Torture 11 The Law of Torture and Accountability of Lawyers Who Sanction ItJeanne Mirer 12 Terrorists and TorturersPhilippe Sands 13 Criminal Responsibility of Bush Administration Officials with Respect to Unlawful Interrogation Jordan J. Paust 14 Torture, War, and Presidential PowerThomas Ehrlich Reifer About the Contributors Index
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New York University Press Refugee Roulette Disparities in Asylum
Book SynopsisA disturbing look at how asylum seekers fare in AmericaTrade Review"Refugee Roulette reveals how far the nations asylum adjudication system has veered from its traditional moorings of equal justice under law and protection for those in danger of political persecution. The authors bring impressive experience, care, and seasoned judgment to the table. Refugee Roulette should serve as a blueprint for action by policymakers and a new administration." -- Doris Meissner,Former Commissioner, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization, Service and Senior Fellow, Migration Polic"A clarion call for a new humanitarian and transparent system that must be brought into line with our supposed democratic principles, particularly in this era of Obama reform. A must-read for students of immigration law and international human rights." -- David Brotherton,Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York"Insiders have long bemoaned the arbitrary and unfair outcomes of the U.S. asylum system. Finally we have a meticulous and compelling study that lays bare the indisputable problems and essential remedies for all to see." -- Jacqueline Bhabha,Jeremiah Smith Jnr Lecturer, Harvard Law School, Director, University Committee on Human Rights Studies"This pathbreaking study of the asylum system in the United States, coupled with the comparative commentary, reveals the enormous challenges of making fair decisions about asylum claims when the underlying facts are far away and decisions rest on assessments of credibilityof people who often do not speak the language of the judge. At its core, this work raises the profound question of when a system of decision making qualifies to be called a & court." -- Judith Resnik,Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School"The study concerns one & big idea which, importantly, is accessible to both lawyers and laymen without any special jurisprudential or philosophical introduction: the right to have like cases treated alike [The authors] seem to be stones that have rubbed each other smooth. Their prose is beautifully clear throughout." * Modern Law Review *"[T]his is research in the best tradition: it confirms what you largely know already but gives you the ammunition to prove it." * Justice Journal *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Refugee Roulette 1 The Asylum Process 2 The Regional Asylum Offices 3 The Immigration Courts 4 The Board of Immigration Appeals 5 The United States Courts of Appeals 6 Conclusions and Policy RecommendationsPart II International, Judicial, and Scholarly Perspectives 7 Refugee Roulette in the Canadian Casino Audrey Macklin 8 Refugee Roulette: A UK Perspective Robert Thomas 9 Consistency, Credibility, and Culture Bruce J. Einhorn 10 Asylum in a Different Voice? Judging Immigration Claims and Gender Carrie Menkel-Meadow 11 Refugee Roulette in an Administrative Law Context: The Deja Vu of Decisional Disparities in Agency Adjudication Margaret H. Taylor 12 Learning to Live with Unequal Justice: Asylum and the Limits to Consistency Steven H. Legomsky 13 The Counsel Conundrum: Effective Representation in Immigration Proceedings M. Margaret McKeown and Allegra McLeod Methodological Appendix Ninth Circuit Appendix Index About the Authors
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New York University Press The Barbarization of Warfare
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Warfare, [Kassimeris] reminds us, can foster the best of human virtues. But it can also provide an arena in which a nation’s true character is demonstrated in the eyes of the world." * Kansas City Star *"This book shows us the true barbarism of warfare. It makes brilliant but unsettling reading. Viewed together, the essays offer as good a sustained critique of war as is available anywhere in print, combined with a passion and engagement that is all too rare in first rate scholarship. The book is to be greatly treasured as an important contribution in a field of study that remains depressingly relevant in the world today." -- C. A. Gearty,London School of EconomicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements pageThe ContributorsThe Barbarisation of Warfare: a User's ManualGeorge KassimerisThe Second World War: a Barbarous Con?ict?Richard OveryTime, Space and Barbarisation: the German Army and the Eastern Front in Two World WarsHew StrachanThe Modern and the Primitive: Barbarity and Warfare on the Eastern FrontMary R. HabeckSomething to Die For, a Lot to Kill For: the Soviet System and the Barbarisation of Warfare, 1939-1945 Amir WeinerPrisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing: the Dynamics of Defeat, Surrender and Barbarity in the Age of Total WarNiall FergusonSurrogates of the State: Collaboration and Atrocity in Kenya's Mau Mau War David AndersonThe American Empires at WarMarilyn B. YoungThe Global War on Terror and its Impact on the Conduct of WarPaul RogersThe Texts of TortureDavid SimpsonThe Laws of War in the Age of Asymmetric ConflictAnthony DworkinOn Brainwashing Kathleen TaylorEpilogue: Reflections on War and Barbarism Joy WintersNotesIndex
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Aboriginal Studies Press A Man of all Tribes
Book SynopsisThe son of Greek migrant parents, Jackomos was born in Collingwood and grew up in the Great Depression, mixing with people from a range of backgrounds. He was at different times a welfare worker and activist, a public servant in Aboriginal affairs, an historian archivist and genealogist. Loved by many, Jackomos''s life was not without controversy as he was a non-Aboriginal man, with an Aboriginal family, living and moving in an Aboriginal world and working for Aboriginal causes. He maintained strong connections with his Greek heritage and the RSL, of which he was a loyal member, and visited Brunei so often that it became his second spiritual home.
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Aboriginal Studies Press Palm Island
Book SynopsisIn November 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgee''s tragic death triggered civil unrest within the Indigenous community of Palm Island. This led to the first prosecution of a Queensland police officer in relation to a death in custody. Despite prolonged media attention, much of it negative and full of stereotypes, few Australians know the turbulent history of Australia''s Alcatraz, a political prison set up to exile Queensland''s ''troublesome blacks''. In Palm Island, Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present, set against a background of some of the most explosive episodes in Queensland history. The repressive regimes were under the guise of protectionism. But police control continues, and there is a continuing failure to address the causes of ongoing Indigenous disadvantage. Palm Island, often heart-wrenching and at times uplifting, is a study in the dynamics of power and privilege, and how it is resisted.
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Pathfinder Books Ltd Malcolm X Speaks Malcolm X speeches writings
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University of Alberta Press Peace Justice and Freedom
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hopeful, honest and wide-ranging.. A must-read for anyone who cares about rights issues, Peace, Justice and Freedom is a passionate example of who we are, where we're going, and what we must yet accomplish." (Human Rights Commission Alta.)"its importance can be measured by the quality of thought gathered into a single volume: there is more clear thinking about human rights in this particular book than in any other I have read." Satya Das, Edmonton Journal"Peace, Justice and Freedom is a rich compilation of poignant personal experiences, pious words from officials, closely reasoned academic contributions, and passionate appeals to governments, companies and individuals to do better.... [I]t provides plentiful material to those who seek eloquent illustrations and quotations on what the Universal Declaration has been capable of engendering, as well as what it has not delivered, in the last 50 years." Marlies Glasius, London School of Economics and Political Science, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34, No. 2
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University of Alberta Press The Man in Blue Pyjamas
Book SynopsisThe style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture under Saddam Hussein''s regime because of his literary and journalistic achievements-writing that openly explores themes of peace, democracy, and freedom. It was not until 1998, when he and his family took refuge in Canada, that he was able to consider speaking out fully on these topics. Still, due to economic necessity, Barzanji''s dream of writing had to wait until he was named Edmonton''s first Writer-in-Exile in 2007. This literary memoir is the project Barzanji worked on while Writer-in-Exile, and it is the first translation of his work from Kurdish into English. Foreword by John Ralston Saul.Trade Review#4 on the "Edmonton Journal" Best Seller list for the week of October 02, 2011.#5 on the "Edmonton Journal" Best Seller list for the week ending November 20, 2011."The author was named the City's first PEN Writer-In-Exile when he arrived in Edmonton because his memoir arises above the level of personal history to a saga of Kurdish history under Saddam Hussein's tyranny." Anne Burke, The Prairie Journal"When the author became convinced that his family and he had no future in Iraq, he decided to flee to 'freedom', regardless of difficulties involved. He writes vividly about the human smuggling industry in Turkey, Greece, and many other European countries, fed by Afghans, Iraqis, Pakistanis, and many other people from all over the world. His valiant efforts started in 1988 and ended in 1999 when he managed to obtain an immigration visa for Canada through the UN refugee programme.... It is a heart breaking, well-documented and well-written story that compels the reader to continue reading..., turning page after page." Hrayr Berberoglu, Kurdish Globe, June 4, 2012 [Full article at bit.ly/NAJqzz]"Peter Midgley's edit of Jalal Barzanji's The Man in Blue Pajamas has helped create a book that tells an important and accessible story. In his work, Peter considered both the author's and the reader's needs. His consultative approach with the author sought to clarify and elaborate a work complicated by the fragility of memory and translation. The edit resolved complex language issues and delivered compelling detail, aware of the 'challenge not simply to rewrite, but to...allow the author to do the work.' The result is an excellent read, with a glossary and timeline that provide valuable guides and context for readers. Jury comments, Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence, WGA."[Barzanji conjures a] haunting impression of the uncertainties of Kurdish life under Saddam Hussein... The grim account of prison life that follows is replete with novelistic details. There is some inevitable squalor and brutality, but also unexpected humanity. Raconteurs in the overcrowded cells distract others with droll stories... What sets Barzanji's story above mere reportage is his poet's eye for detail. His recollections of childhood in Kurdistan are as absorbing as anything that takes place within the prison... Appropriately, the most memorable image in the whole book is the conversion of the local library into the prison that will eventually house Barzanji." Brendan de Caires, Freedom to Read Magazine 2012"This well-written memoir is put together like a novel, with the events ordered to create a simulacrum of memory as well as to build tension and introduce foreshadowing. Not only do we receive an accurate picture of Jalal Barzanji's life story but, also, in seeing into the lives of his contemporary Kurds, we understand the force of his epiphany that his own story is necessarily part of a larger narrative." Gillian Harding-Russell, Prairie Fire Review of Books, 12.3"Jalal Barzanji, a Kurd from Iraq, endured imprisonment, torture, and exile, in order to share his life experiences through the usage of words. This is not a chronological story from beginning to end, but rather has a storytelling aspect that skips around to different memories that he has about his own life, and from others who have told him their memories and stories." Angela Green, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries 2012, Outstanding Title"Barzanji's memoir is a survivor's story conveyed in direct, laconic, and decisive prose. The prison ordeal he recounts could crush the mightiest of souls. Yet Barzanji forbears bitterness; his world encompasses "peace, love, and beauty." Amy O'Loughlin, ForeWord Reviews, March 26, 2013"The Man in Blue Pyjamas is a noteworthy accomplishment. Barzanji has created a poignant memoir brimming with authenticity and many readers, despite nationality, will find in him a kindred spirit. His openness and compassion make him an endearing figure - a tender man who wants nothing more than to embrace the world and memorialise it with words. His story serves as a chilling reminder of the dangers many writers still face simply by putting pen to paper." Logan Mickel, Translational Literature, May 2012 [Full review at http://bit.ly/IdcAXA]"Taking us to a place that many refuse to accept exists, Barzanji reveals what it means to be forced to weigh freedom, self-expression and survival against belonging, duty and the law. Seen from the final page, the story in pieces transforms itself into a beautiful and beguiling whole. A humbling read." Ann Morgan, December 2012, http://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2012/12/29/rest-of-the-world-revealedTable of ContentsForeword xiii Maps xvi Preface xvii Acknowledgements xix Introduction xxi 1 The First Stage of Imprisonment 3 A Bitter Evening 3 A Deathly Quiet Cell 14 Hope Fading 24 A Hill of Blankets 31 Some Shocking News 40 Prison Number Five 46 Secret Funeral 49 2 Early Childhood in the Age of the Village 51 Unknown Birthday 51 A Fire in the Village 55 The Mystery Solved 63 Half of Ashkaftsaqa Dancing 65 Leaving Ashkaftsaqa 67 Our First Days in the City 73 Resuming School 76 An Unlikely Continuation of My Story 78 3 A City Boy 81 My Sun Rising Above the Citadel 81 An Overplayed Ball 86 Perhaps, Peace at Last 90 The Illusion Ends 93 A Teacher’s Life 100 4 A World of Words 105 The Lure of Reading 105 A Return to the Library 110 My First Publication 112 Writing in an Atmosphere of Fear 118 One Bright Moment 122 5 Life in Prison 127 My First Visitor 127 A Shared Home 135 Your Words Bring You Home to Me 138 A Poet Misses His Father 140 The Worst Deprivation 142 Nature’s Ways 144 Ghareeb’s Disappearance 145 The Third Visit 146 Health Issues 148 Cancelling the Visit 150 6 Fear in a Different Form 153 The Release 153 Fear Didn’t Leave Me Alone 160 An Anfal Story 162 Rapareen, or the Uprising 167 A Twist of Fate 171 Returning Home 177 7 Searching for a New Beginning 181 Crossing Borders 181 Ankara 1997 190 Seeking Asylum 197 Exile in Sivas 204 8 Another Attempt at Starting Over 213 Flying to a New Home 213 Losing My Luggage 216 Our Final Destination 220 A Death in Exile 226 Somewhere In-between 230 Justice at Last 238 Chronology 241 Glossary 245 Index 249
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University of Alberta Press Disinherited Generations
Book SynopsisTwo Cree women fought injustices regarding the rights of Indigenous women and children in Canada.Trade Review"...a unique and unforgettable look into the lives of two determined Aboriginal women, whose extraordinary efforts and unwavering determination helped to set new precedents and changed the way that Canada's Indian Act perceived and treated First Nations women.... This oral autobiography, which is highlighted by detailed notes, photographs and personal stories of tumultuous times and triumphant achievements, is a must read for every student of Native Studies and those interested in learning more about the quest for dignity, human rights, gains made through various types of peaceful activism, and Aboriginal history in Canada as a whole." John Copley, Alberta Native News, March 2013"Knowing about these two women's stories (as well as those of important people like Jenny Shirt Margetts and Mary Two-Axe Earley among numerous others) is one of the missing pieces of a complex puzzle about contemporary Canadian history and the treatment of a large group of our country's citizens." Scott Hayes, St. Albert Gazette, April 10, 2013"Disinherited Generations is an oral history of Carlson and Steinhauer's struggles to fix the inherent sexism of the Indian Act. The story picks up at the founding of their activist group Indian Rights for Indian Women and carries on through years of advocacy and legal set-backs all the way to 1985, when section 12(1)(b) was finally repealed to adhere to the recently passed Charter of Rights and Freedoms." Michael Hingston, Edmonton Journal, February 15, 2013#5 on the Edmonton Journal's Non-fiction Bestsellers list for the week of May 3, 2013"In this oral autobiography told to a Canadian writer, Carlson and Steinhauer (d. 2012), Saddle Creek Cree cousins, relate the story of their activism against discrimination by the federal government in the Indian Act and resistance in their own community." Book News Inc., 2013"This book is a testament to the strength of these women who persevered, despite threats that they and their families would be shot if they tried coming back to their reserves. In the face of ridicule, insufficient funds, legal loopholes and interminable delays, why did they continue? Valuable context behind the women's motivation comes in pages devoted to their memories.... Steinhauer succumbed to cancer last year, but her written story, with Carlson's, survives to influence a new generation..." Dianne Meili, Alberta Views, September 2013"...a highly readable set of conversations between the two Cree elders, transcribed and lovingly edited by the third author into eight chapters that address key 20th-century issues for Aboriginal women in Canada.... Discussion on the 'Indian Act,' treaty rights, and gender inequality is no academic exercise, but 'a personal matter, a family inheritance' that powerfully illustrates their effects on Aboriginal women and their children. The authors personalize the political and historical, and politicize their personal histories.... The strengths here are continuously revealed like so many repeated offerings of oral teachings of indigenous elders. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." G. Bruyere, Choice Magazine, September 2013"An engaging and inspirational book, Disinherited Generations will have an audience among students, researchers and other people wanting to know more about treaty and Aboriginal rights, activism, the First Nations women's movement and the Indian Act.... Writing about gender discrimination in the Indian Act tends to focus on legislation and court cases, which can inadvertently silence the impact of the law on the lived lives of First Nations people.... What is clear is that not only was the violence of the Indian Act meted out on individuals, it was targeted at families and had a deep impact on cultural and collective levels. It is clear that the book was produced in a spirit of history telling that emphasizes sharing, generating research and strengthening Indigenous nations." Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Histoire Sociale/Social History, November 2013“As a direct result of Carlson and Steinhauer’s work, the number of ‘registered Indians’ in Canada more than doubled, from about 360,000 in 1985 to 824,341 in 2010—radically impacting the face of Aboriginal/State relations in Canada, and with it the face of what ‘reconciliation’ looks like today in Canada…. Indigenizing these archives—inviting researchers to the kitchen table to share Aboriginal history—Carlson, Goyette and Steinhauer offer a uniquely Cree and Métis space for scholars to build research and structure argument.” -- David Gaertner * Canadian Literature *Table of ContentsForeword xi A Tribute to Kathleen Steinhauer and Nellie Carlson MARIA CAMPBELL Acknowledgements xix Introduction xxi Two Strong Women Begin to Tell a Story LINDA GOYETTE 1 Daughters of Saddle Lake 1 2 Surviving Residential School 15 3 Love, Matrimony, and the Indian Act 27 4 Indian Rights for Indian Women 55 5 A Tribute to Jenny Shirt Margetts 71 6 How We Worked Together 81 7 Fighting for Our Birthright 97 8 This Is Our Land 109 Closing Words 119 Family Tree 121 Timeline 125 Honour Roll 131 Notes 137 Glossary 149 Further Reading 153 Index 157
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