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Book SynopsisThis innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to reveal both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project Brings together essays by both contemporary luminaries and seminal figures to provide a rich introduction to the subject Supplemented with selected international human rights documents and links to websites on human rights Trade Review"Provides an important introduction to core epistemological, moral, and methodological questions at stake. ... Recommended reading not just as background literature for students of the field, but for the wider anthropological community seeking to come to terms with rights." (Social Anthropology, January 2010) "Goodale has an apt sense of what is important and what has yet to be done in the anthropological encounter with human rights ... .The book raises valuable questions not only about human rights but ultimately about cultural relativism, the concept of culture, and the practice and future of anthropology itself." (Academici, April 2009) "The book draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to explore both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project." (Law & Social Inquiry, Spring 2009)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction—Human Rights and Anthropology: Mark Goodale (George Mason University). Part I: Conceptual and Historical Foundations:. 1. Statement on Human Rights (1947) and commentaries: American Anthropological Association, Julian Steward (Late of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), H. G. Barnett (Late of University of Oregon). 2. The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man: Hannah Arendt. 3. The Good, The Bad, and the Intolerable: Minority Group Rights: Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University, Canada). 4. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights: Abdullahi Ahmed An –Na’im (Emory University). 5. Human Rights and Capabilities: Amartya Sen (Harvard University). Part II: Anthropology and Human Rights Activism:. 6. Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights (1999): American Anthropological Association. 7. Anthropology, Human Rights, and Social Transformation: Ellen Messer (Brandeis University). 8. Excavations of the Heart: Healing Fragmented Communities: Victoria Sanford (City University of New York, Lehman College). 9. Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift: Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau (both Harvard University). 10. Rotten Trade: Millennial Capitalism, Human Values, and Global Justice in Organs Trafficking: Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley). 11. Do Anthropologists Have an Ethical Obligation to Promote Human Rights?: Terence Turner (Cornell University), Laura Graham (University of Iowa), Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (Rhode Island College), Jane Cowan (University of Sussex, UK). Part III: The Ethnography of Human Rights Practices:. 12. Representing Human Rights Violations: Social Contexts and Subjectivities: Richard. A. Wilson (University of Connecticut). 13. Gendered Intersections: Collective and Individual Rights in Indigenous Women’s Experience: Shannon Speed (University of Texas, Austin). 14. Human Rights and Moral Panics: Listening to Popular Grievances: Harri Englund (University of Cambridge, UK). 15. Legal Transplants and Cultural Translation: Making Human Rights in the Vernacular: Sally Engle Merry (New York University). Part IV: Critical Anthropologies of Human Rights:. 16. Culture and Rights after Culture and Rights: Jane Cowan (University of Sussex, UK). 17. Human Rights as Cultural Practice: An Anthropological Critique: Ann-Belinda Preis (UNESCO, France). 18. Between Universalism and Relativism: A Critique of the UNESCO Concept of Culture: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo, Norway). 19. Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights: Mark Goodale (George Mason University). Appendix: Websites on Human Rights

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Book SynopsisThis special issue highlights the complexity, breadth, and range of topics pertaining to children's rights as a social issue. The contributions included in this issue provide current theory and empirical research addressing the ways in which children and youth conceptualize their need for rights in contexts such as the family, school, community, and greater society. Additionally, the contributions address the implications this research has for policy and practice centered on the rights of children and youth in varying social contexts. As such this issue will be of interest to all those who advocate for young people in a variety of setting, as well as those whose work pertains to bettering the lives children and youth more generally. Focuses on children's and adolescents' conceptions of their rights and responsibilities. Articles utilize the best developmental science and theoretical frameworks to address the tensions and complexities of chTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION. Charting the Landscape of Children’s Rights Martin D. Ruck and Stacey S. Horn. THEORETICAL, CONCEPTUAL, AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS. The Rights of Children, the Rights of Nations: Developmental Theory and the Politics of Children’s Rights Colette Daiute. Regardless of Frontiers: Adolescents and the Human Right to Information Roger J. R. Levesque. Studying Children’s Perspectives on Self-Determination and Nurturance Rights: Issues and Challenges Michele Peterson-Badali and Martin D. Ruck. YOUNG PEOPLE’S VIEWS OF PROTECTION AND PARTICIPATION IN EVERYDAY CONTEXTS. Adolescents’ Perceptions of Rights as Reflected in Their Views of Citizenship Lonnie R. Sherrod. Schooling, Sexuality, and Rights: An Investigation of Heterosexual Students’ Social Cognition Regarding Sexual Orientation and the Rights of Gay and Lesbian Peers in School Stacey S. Horn, Laura A. Szalacha, and Karen Drill. It’s My Body and None of Your Business: Developmental Changes in Adolescents’ Perceptions of Rights Concerning Health Constance A. Flanagan, Michael Stout, and Leslie S. Gallay. CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN’S RIGHTS. Children’s Nurturance and Self-Determination Rights: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Isabelle D. Cherney and Yee L. Shing. How Adolescents in 27 Countries Understand, Support, and Practice Human Rights Judith Torney-Purta, Britt Wilkenfeld, and Carolyn Barber. Adolescents’ Approach toward Children’s Rights: Comparison among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Children in Jerusalem Mona Khoury-Kassabri and Asher Ben-Arieh. COMMENTARY. Beyond Balancing: Toward an Integrated Approach to Children’s Rights Gary B. Melton. 2007 KURT LEWIN AWARD ADDRESS. Introduction to Kay Deaux’s Lewin Award Address Brenda N. Major. To Be an American: Immigration, Hyphenation, and Incorporation Kay Deaux

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Book SynopsisSynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-LottTrade ReviewThis collection makes a strong contribution to the prevailing conversation about student activism with its less-told, and often surprising, narratives from the South. -- John Blythe North Carolina Historical Review An excellent starting point for anyone wanting to understand the protests of the 1960s... Essential. Choice This quality volume is an excellent foundation for scholars eager to further complicate our understanding of 1960s activism nationally. -- Benjamin Houston Journal of American History This fine volume on southern student activism in the 1960s offers a timely reminder -- several actually -- of a troubled and not so distant past... An impressive range of well-argued, fresh contributions. -- Charles J. Holden Journal of Southern History Taken together, this collection of taut, well-organized essays reveals the contest that the decade of the 1960s was, and its memory remains... This well-balanced collection should contribute in important ways to ongoing efforts to bring greater nuance to narratives of the 1960s, the South, and the nation as a whole. -- David Taft Terry HistoryTable of ContentsForeword. Deep South Campus Memories and the World the Sixties MadeOrigins and Acknowledgments Introduction. Prophetic Minority versus Recalcitrant Majority: Southern Student Dissent and the Struggle for Progressive Change in the 1960sPart I: Early Days: From Talk to ActionChapter 1. Freedom Now! SNCC Galvanizes the New Left Chapter 2. Student Free Speech on Both Sides of the Color Line in Mississippi and the Carolinas Chapter 3. Interracial Dialogue and the Southern Student Human Relations Project Chapter 4. Moderate White Activists and the Struggle for Racial Equality on South Carolina Campuses Part II: Campus Activism Takes ShapeChapter 5. The Rise of Black and White Student Protest in NashvilleChapter 6. Student Radicalism and the Antiwar Movement at the University of Alabama Chapter 7. Conservative Student Activism at the University of Georgia Part III: A Cultural Revolution and Its DiscontentsChapter 8. Sexual Liberation at the University of North Carolina Chapter 9. The Counterculture as Local Culture in Columbia, South Carolina Chapter 10. Government Repression of the Southern New LeftPart IV: Black Power and the Legacy of the Freedom MovementChapter 11. North Carolina A&T Black Power Activists and the Student Organization for Black Unity Chapter 12. Black Power and the Freedom Movement in Retrospect Historiographical Reflections Afterword List of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn studying this phenomenon, Deslippe deepens our understanding of American democracy and neoconservatism in the late twentieth century and shows how the liberals' often contradictory positions of the 1960s and 1970s reflect the conflicted views about affirmative action many Americans still hold today.Trade ReviewA welcome examination of affirmative action opposition in the often-overlooked period before Bakke. Choice Deslippe's treatment of labor's resistance in particular is balanced, detailed, and nuanced, and he includes an excellent chapter on the precursor of Bakke, DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974)... A valuable discussion that clearly adds to the scholarship on this crucial subject. -- Kevin Yuill Journal of American History Ambitious and timely... The detail Deslippe provides in the creation of a 'reverse populism' that, in effect, made past discrimination into a union principle, is very powerful. -- Bill Barry Labor Studies Journal It is difficult to think of a more timely historical topic: persistent ambivalence about affirmative action again collides with an economic downturn as an increasingly conservative Supreme Court considers landmark cases that may resolve some legal questions but are unlikely to end the almost half-century-old moral and political debate. -- Serena Mayeri Journal of American Studies The detail Deslippe provides in the creation of a "reverse populism" that, in effect, made past discrimination into a union principle, is very powerful. -- Bill Barry Labor Studies Journal In uncovering the murky and complex pre-history of contemporary affirmative action debates, Deslippe shows how changing social and economic circumstances shaped diverse understandings of the meaning of race, sex, opportunity, and disadvantage. -- Katherine Turk American StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms and InitialismsIntroduction1. "The Best 'Affirmative Action Program' Is Creating Jobs for Everyone": Organized Labor Responds to Affirmative Action, 1960–19742. "This Strange Madness": The Origins of Opposition to Higher Education Affirmative Action, 1968–19723. "This Issue Is Getting Hotter": The Struggle over Affirmative Action Policy in the Early 1970s4. "Treat Him as a Decent American!": DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) and Colorblindness in the Courtroom5. "Do Whites Have Rights?": White Detroit Policemen and the "Reverse Discrimination" Protests of the 1970s6. "The Fight for True Nondiscrimination": The Politics of Anti–Affirmative Action in the 1970sConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisA critique of attempts by conservative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors to appropriate the rhetoric of victimhood and appeals to rights to safeguard the status of the powerful. As revolution and popular unrest roiled the final decades of the eighteenth century, authors, activists, and philosophers across the British Empire hailed the rise of the liberal subject, valorizing the humanity of the marginalized and the rights of members of groups long considered inferior or subhuman. Yet at the same time, a group of conservative authors mounted a reactionary attempt to cultivate sympathy for the privileged. In Defending Privilege, Nicole Mansfield Wright examines works by Tobias Smollett, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, and others to show how conservatives used the rhetoric of victimhood in attempts to convince ordinary readers to regard a privileged person's loss of legal agency as a catastrophe greater than the calamities and legally sanctioned exclusion suffered by the poor andTrade ReviewKeenly researched and persuasively conveyed, Defending Privilege is a fascinating, dynamic, and wonderfully engaging book.—Barbara Hughes-Moore, Hedgehogs and FoxesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Neglected InheritancePart I. Downward Mobility and the Safety Net of the Law1. Bad Citizens and Insolent Foreigners: Tobias Smollett's Elite Outsiders and the Suspension of Legal Agency2. Covert Critique: Genteel Victimhood in Charlotte Smith's Fictions of DispossessionPart II. The Pen as a Weapon against Reform of the Law3. Letters of the Law: Ambivalent Advocacy and Speaking for the Voiceless in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet4. Masters of Passion and Tongue: White Eyewitnesses and Fear of Black Testimony in the Proslavery NovelEpilogue: Abiding the LawNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA critique of attempts by conservative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors to appropriate the rhetoric of victimhood and appeals to rights to safeguard the status of the powerful. As revolution and popular unrest roiled the final decades of the eighteenth century, authors, activists, and philosophers across the British Empire hailed the rise of the liberal subject, valorizing the humanity of the marginalized and the rights of members of groups long considered inferior or subhuman. Yet at the same time, a group of conservative authors mounted a reactionary attempt to cultivate sympathy for the privileged. In Defending Privilege, Nicole Mansfield Wright examines works by Tobias Smollett, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, and others to show how conservatives used the rhetoric of victimhood in attempts to convince ordinary readers to regard a privileged person's loss of legal agency as a catastrophe greater than the calamities and legally sanctioned exclusion suffered by the poor andTrade ReviewKeenly researched and persuasively conveyed, Defending Privilege is a fascinating, dynamic, and wonderfully engaging book.—Barbara Hughes-Moore, Hedgehogs and FoxesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Neglected InheritancePart I. Downward Mobility and the Safety Net of the Law1. Bad Citizens and Insolent Foreigners: Tobias Smollett's Elite Outsiders and the Suspension of Legal Agency2. Covert Critique: Genteel Victimhood in Charlotte Smith's Fictions of DispossessionPart II. The Pen as a Weapon against Reform of the Law3. Letters of the Law: Ambivalent Advocacy and Speaking for the Voiceless in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet4. Masters of Passion and Tongue: White Eyewitnesses and Fear of Black Testimony in the Proslavery NovelEpilogue: Abiding the LawNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow do we balance freedom with the responsibilities we owe each other as members of society?Are we free to do whatever we want? This idea challenges us throughout our daily lives, from how to tackle pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates to how to respond to technological innovations and climate change warnings. In The Liberty Paradox, David Kinley argues that we must rehabilitate the notion of liberty by rescuing it from the myopic demands of freedom without limit and reinstating the essential ingredient of social responsibility. Combining political, philosophical, and personal reflections as a global human rights lawyer, Kinley examines the implications of this liberty reset for how we negotiate freedom's boundaries in the realms of wealth, work, health, happiness, security, voice, love, and death. With chapters dedicated to each of these life-defining domains and written in a style both engaging and insightful, The Liberty Paradox explores how we tryand often failto balance pers

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Book SynopsisPolitical violence does not end with the last death. This title develops a critical justification for why transitional justice works and outlines a concept that emphasizes the importance of shared notions of moral respect and tolerance among adversaries in transitional societies.Trade Review"Discussions of social reconstruction after political violence commonly expose the psychological and moral obstacles to forgiveness of perpetrators by victims. Ernesto Verdeja's Unchopping a Tree, in contrast, offers a sustained and clarifying analysis of respect and thus moves beyond forgiveness as the key to personal and political reconstruction after mass atrocities. The integration of personal narratives into the conceptual analysis makes this an especially valuable treatment of the daunting and demanding challenges for societies recovering from violence." —Martha Minow, Harvard University, author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence"I am greatly impressed by Unchopping a Tree. Ernesto Verdeja manages to synthesize an enormous amount of material into a clear and cogently argued framework to guide thinking about processes of reconciliation. He does an excellent job of presenting what he finds to be the strengths and weaknesses of the competing major approaches to this topic on the way to constructing and defending his alternative. His style is both pedagogic and clear-sighted. I think this will be an important work that makes a clear contribution to the literature." —Ron Eyerman, Yale University, author of Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity"Verdeja has written an excellent book that should be recognized as an important contribution to current debates on reconciliation. It provides a much-needed comprehensive and multilayered normative perspective, and it will be of great value to our global concern with the question of how societies can deal with an atrocious past." —Thomas Brudholm, University of Copenhagen, author of Resentment’s Virtue: Jean Améry and the Refusal to ForgiveTable of Contents1: Theorizing Reconciliation; 2: Key Normative Concepts; 3: Political Society; 4: Institutional and Legal Responses: Trials and Truth Commissions; 5: Civil Society and Reconciliation; 6: Inter-Personal Reconciliation; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDespite being characterized as a nation of immigrants, the United States has seen a long history of immigrant rights struggles. In her timely book Against the Deportation Terror, Rachel Ida Buff uncovers this multiracial history. She traces the story of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) from its origins in the 1930s through repression during the early Cold War, to engagement with new Latinx and Caribbean immigrants in the 1970s and early 1980s. Functioning as a hub connecting diverse foreign-born communities and racial justice advocates, the ACPFB responded to various, ongoing crises of what they called the deportation terror. Advocates worked against repression, discrimination, detention, and expulsion in migrant communities across the nation at the same time as they supported reform of federal immigration policy. Prevailing in some cases and suffering defeats in others, the story of the ACPFB is characterized by persistence in multiracial organiz

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Book SynopsisDespite being characterized as a nation of immigrants, the United States has seen a long history of immigrant rights struggles. In her timely book Against the Deportation Terror, Rachel Ida Buff uncovers this multiracial history. She traces the story of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) from its origins in the 1930s through repression during the early Cold War, to engagement with new Latinx and Caribbean immigrants in the 1970s and early 1980s. Functioning as a hub connecting diverse foreign-born communities and racial justice advocates, the ACPFB responded to various, ongoing crises of what they called the deportation terror. Advocates worked against repression, discrimination, detention, and expulsion in migrant communities across the nation at the same time as they supported reform of federal immigration policy. Prevailing in some cases and suffering defeats in others, the story of the ACPFB is characterized by persistence in multiracial organiz

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Book SynopsisExamining the political impact of Black migration on politics in three northern cities from 1915 to 1965Trade Review“ An impressive work of political scholarship, The Great Migration and the Democratic Party captures the political agency of Black migrants to the urban North. Tracing Black political activity across Chicago, Detroit, and New York City, Grant shows how migrants eagerly grasped the possibility of place by engaging in strategic coalition building with local parties. Political activism, in turn, led to the election or appointment of Black women and men to local and state offices, giving political voice and influence to the new migrants and, in some cases, to the Black Americans disenfranchised in the South. The possibility of the Black ‘balance of power’ vote and the activism of Black officials created the northern urban roots of the Democratic Party’s twentieth-century realignment. Grant’s careful historical scholarship and political analysis provide a clear and systematic breakdown of the Great Migration and its consequences.” —Kimberley Johnson, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at the Wagner School, New York University, and author of Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age before Brown“Scholars have long analyzed the Great Migration’s social and economic effects on U.S. cities. In this well-documented study, Keneshia Grant goes where few scholars have gone before, by focusing on the Great Migration’s significant political consequences on U.S. cities. Using in-depth case studies and historical analysis, Grant demonstrates how the massive influx of Black migrants from the South transformed local political regimes in Detroit, Chicago, and New York. She paints a vivid portrait of the political agency of Black migrants from the South, including many who won election to local, state, and federal offices in their adopted cities.” —Marion Orr, Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science, Brown University, and co-editor of Latino Mayors: Political Change in the Postindustrial City (Temple).

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Book SynopsisExamining the political impact of Black migration on politics in three northern cities from 1915 to 1965Trade Review“ An impressive work of political scholarship, The Great Migration and the Democratic Party captures the political agency of Black migrants to the urban North. Tracing Black political activity across Chicago, Detroit, and New York City, Grant shows how migrants eagerly grasped the possibility of place by engaging in strategic coalition building with local parties. Political activism, in turn, led to the election or appointment of Black women and men to local and state offices, giving political voice and influence to the new migrants and, in some cases, to the Black Americans disenfranchised in the South. The possibility of the Black ‘balance of power’ vote and the activism of Black officials created the northern urban roots of the Democratic Party’s twentieth-century realignment. Grant’s careful historical scholarship and political analysis provide a clear and systematic breakdown of the Great Migration and its consequences.” —Kimberley Johnson, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at the Wagner School, New York University, and author of Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age before Brown“Scholars have long analyzed the Great Migration’s social and economic effects on U.S. cities. In this well-documented study, Keneshia Grant goes where few scholars have gone before, by focusing on the Great Migration’s significant political consequences on U.S. cities. Using in-depth case studies and historical analysis, Grant demonstrates how the massive influx of Black migrants from the South transformed local political regimes in Detroit, Chicago, and New York. She paints a vivid portrait of the political agency of Black migrants from the South, including many who won election to local, state, and federal offices in their adopted cities.” —Marion Orr, Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science, Brown University, and co-editor of Latino Mayors: Political Change in the Postindustrial City (Temple).

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Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, the unemployed were organizing. Jobless workers felt they were entitled to a new kind of government protectionthe protection from undeserved unemployment and the financial straits that such unemployment created. They wanted dignified forms of relief (including work relief) during the Depression, and unemployment insurance after. Becoming Entitled artfully chronicles the emergence of this worker entitlement and the people who cultivated it. Abigail Trollinger focuses largely on Chicago after the Progressive Era, where the settlement house and labor movements both flourished. She shows how reformers joined workers and relief officials to redeem the unemployed and secure government-funded social insurance for them. Becoming Entitled also offers a critical reappraisal of New Deal social and economic changes, suggesting that the transformations of the 1930s came from reformers in the middle, who helped establish a limited form of entitlement for workers. Ultimately, Trolli

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and critique how crime is understood, reproduced, and challenged.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking Differently About Crime Part I: Thinking Differently About Crime 1. Michel Foucault: Theories and "Method" (Carmela Murdocca) 2. History Matters (Amanda Glasbeek) 3. The Politics of Representation (Ummni Khan) 4. The Politics of Counting Crime (Michael S. Mopas) Part II: Intersections 5. Racialization, Criminalization, Representation (Carmela Murdocca) 6. Gendering Crime: Men and Masculinities (Ruthann Lee) 7. Women Gone Bad? Women, Criminalization, and Representation (Amanda Glasbeek) 8. Sexual Regulation: Sexing Governmentality; Governing Sex (Deborah Brock) 9. Crime and Social Classes: Regulating and Representing Public Disorder (Marie-Eve Sylvestre) Part III: Emerging Issues in Canada and Beyond: Connecting the Global to the Local 10. Profiles and Profiling Technology: Stereotypes, Surveillance and Governmentality (Martin A. French and Simone A. Browne) 11. Wanted by the Canada Border Services Agency (Anna Pratt) 12. In the Name of Human Rights: Governing and Representing Non-Western Lives Post-9/11 (Marcia Oliver) 13. Where Are All the Corporate Criminals? Understanding Struggles to Criminalize Corporate Harm and Wrongdoing (Steven Bittle) 14. Social Movements and Critical Resistance: Policing Colonial Capitalist Order (Tia Dafnos) Conclusion: Representation, Regulation, and Resistance Glossary Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and critique how crime is understood, reproduced, and challenged.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking Differently About Crime Part I: Thinking Differently About Crime 1. Michel Foucault: Theories and "Method" (Carmela Murdocca) 2. History Matters (Amanda Glasbeek) 3. The Politics of Representation (Ummni Khan) 4. The Politics of Counting Crime (Michael S. Mopas) Part II: Intersections 5. Racialization, Criminalization, Representation (Carmela Murdocca) 6. Gendering Crime: Men and Masculinities (Ruthann Lee) 7. Women Gone Bad? Women, Criminalization, and Representation (Amanda Glasbeek) 8. Sexual Regulation: Sexing Governmentality; Governing Sex (Deborah Brock) 9. Crime and Social Classes: Regulating and Representing Public Disorder (Marie-Eve Sylvestre) Part III: Emerging Issues in Canada and Beyond: Connecting the Global to the Local 10. Profiles and Profiling Technology: Stereotypes, Surveillance and Governmentality (Martin A. French and Simone A. Browne) 11. Wanted by the Canada Border Services Agency (Anna Pratt) 12. In the Name of Human Rights: Governing and Representing Non-Western Lives Post-9/11 (Marcia Oliver) 13. Where Are All the Corporate Criminals? Understanding Struggles to Criminalize Corporate Harm and Wrongdoing (Steven Bittle) 14. Social Movements and Critical Resistance: Policing Colonial Capitalist Order (Tia Dafnos) Conclusion: Representation, Regulation, and Resistance Glossary Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFree to Believe investigates the protection for freedom of conscience and religion the first of the fundamental freedoms listed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and its interpretation in the courts.Trade Review'This thought provoking book provides readers with a valuable perspective for modern democratic issues.' -- Nicholas Horlick Saskatchewan Law Review vol 77:2014 'This uniquely brilliant contribution to the study of diverse social values is also timely as the Quebec government endeavors to inscribe Quebec society's putative values in a controversial charter... Highly recommended.' -- A.F. Johnson Choice Magazine vol 51:08:2014Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction: How Freedom of Conscience and Religion Are Protected and Why It Matters Chapter Two: Early Cases: Getting Off on the Wrong Foot Chapter Three: Culture Wars: Majority versus Minority Values Chapter Four: When Religion and Politics Intertwine Chapter Five: Human Rights: A Zero Sum Game? Chapter Six: Conflicting Rights: A Balancing Act? Chapter Seven: Freedom of Conscience: The Forgotten Human Right Chapter Eight: Can We Change? (And Why We Should) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisInA Culture of Rights, Benjamin Authers reads novels by authors including Joy Kogawa, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, and Jeanette Armstrong alongside Canadian legal texts and constitutional rights cases.Trade Review'This book is a good model of interdisciplinarity - Authers succeeds in marrying the different domains of law and literature in a complex and interesting analysis.' -- G.A. McBeath Choice, vol 54:04:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One. "This is why Redress Matters": Rights and National Belonging Chapter Two. Excessive Rights: Freedom of Expression and Analogies of Harm Chapter Three. "Nothing but the Pure, Entire, and Unblemished Truth?": Trials, Counter Narratives, and Legal Rights Chapter Four. Allegory, Interpretation, and Equality Rights Chapter Five. "We don't need anybody's Constitution": Indigenous Peoples and Resistance to Rights Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWritten by one of the world's leading experts on victimology, this book is designed to offer a broad introduction to the subject.Trade Review"Wemmers work verily reaches to the core of what is possible in our common law system, when human rights becomes the foundation upon which we address and articulate justice. Each chapter in Victimology: A Canadian Perspective is a precious and provocative piece replete with information that can prove a rich guide for first-time readers and seasoned researchers in the field of victimology." -- Margot Van Sluytman, The Sawbonna Project * Justice Report *"[Wemmers] has assembled an accessible, efficient introduction to her topic of expertise and provides, along the way, insight that sparks interest for greater exploration. This publication comes at a time when Canada is looking for responses to urgent questions about victims’ needs in a legal system that may have fallen behind the times. Victimology is certain to be used in many fields." -- Jake Babad, Osgoode Hall Law School * Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol 55 *"Wemmers’ Victimology: A Canadian Perspective is essential reading for those interested in victims of crime in all their dynamism – theoretically, politically, and within the disciplines. However, Wemmers takes this further by providing a powerful analysis of structural and institutional reform, through the emerging human rights instruments that place victim rights firmly on the policy agenda. Bringing together a volume of this kind is no small feat, internationally significant, but with obvious relevance to those especially interested in Canada’s justice response." -- Tyrone Kirchengast, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney * International Review of Victimology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Evolution of the Notion of Crime Victim 2. History of Victimology 3. Victimization Surveys 4. The Impact of Victimization 5. Theoretical Victimology 6. Victims' Needs and Secondary Victimization 7. Victims' Rights 8. Victim Assistance 9. State Compensation 10. Victim Participation in the Criminal Justice Process 11. Reparative Justice 12. Integrating Victims in Criminal Justice Appendix 1 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power Appendix 2 Canadian Victims' Bill of Rights Appendix 3 Victim Compensation Programs across Canada Appendix 4 Victim Impact Statement Glossary References Laws Cited in the Text Index

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Book SynopsisTheseoriginal essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Samuel Totten 1. US Action and Inaction in the Massacre of Communists and Alleged Communists in Indonesia (1965–1966) by Kai M. Thaler Essay Documents 2. The Bangladesh Genocide and the Nixon–Kissinger “Tilt” (1971) by Salim Mansur Essay Documents 3. “Our Hand Doesn’t Show”: The United States and the Consolidation of the Pinochet Regime in Chile (1973–1977) by Christopher Dietrich Essay Documents 4. Mass Killing at a Distance: US Complicity in the East Timor Genocide and International Structural Violence (1975–1999) by Joseph Nevins Essay Documents 5. The US Role in Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1976–1983) by Natasha Zaretsky Essay Documents 6. The United States Government’s Relationship with Guatemala During the Genocide of the Maya (1981–1983) by Samuel Totten Essay Documents 7. Calculated Avoidance: The Clinton Administration and the 100-Day Genocide in Rwanda (1994) by Samuel Totten and Gerry Caplan Essay Documents Afterword by Samuel Totten Appendices List of Crimes Against Humanity United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Acknowledgments About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisAccess to Medicines as a Human Right identifies innovative solutions applicable in both global and domestic forums, making it a valuable resource for the vast field of scholars, legal practitioners, and policymakers who must confront this challenging issue.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction 1. "Access to Medicines as a Human Right and Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibilities." Part One: Rights, Norms and Ethics 2. "Human Rights Responsibilities of Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines." 3. "Improving Access to Essential Medicines: International Law and Normative Change." 4. "Corporate Social Responsibility and the Right to Essential Medicines." Part Two: Social versus Business Responsibilities 5. "Benchmarking and Transparency: Incentives for the Pharmaceutical Industry's Corporate Social Responsibility." 6. "Social Responsibility and Marketing of Drugs in Developing Countries: A Goal or an Oxymoron." Part Three: Case-Studies for Achieving Corporate Responsibility 7. "Managing the Market for Medicines Access: Realizing the Right to Health by Facilitating Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceuticals - A Case Study of Legislation and the Need for Reform." 8. "Ubuntu, AIDS and the King II Report: Reflections on Corporate Social Responsibility in South Africa." Annexure Human Rights Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFree to Believe investigates the protection for freedom of conscience and religion the first of the fundamental freedoms listed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and its interpretation in the courts.Trade Review'This thought provoking book provides readers with a valuable perspective for modern democratic issues.' -- Nicholas Horlick Saskatchewan Law Review vol 77:2014 'This uniquely brilliant contribution to the study of diverse social values is also timely as the Quebec government endeavors to inscribe Quebec society's putative values in a controversial charter... Highly recommended.' -- A.F. Johnson Choice Magazine vol 51:08:2014Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction: How Freedom of Conscience and Religion Are Protected and Why It Matters Chapter Two: Early Cases: Getting Off on the Wrong Foot Chapter Three: Culture Wars: Majority versus Minority Values Chapter Four: When Religion and Politics Intertwine Chapter Five: Human Rights: A Zero Sum Game? Chapter Six: Conflicting Rights: A Balancing Act? Chapter Seven: Freedom of Conscience: The Forgotten Human Right Chapter Eight: Can We Change? (And Why We Should) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis collection examines the nexus between the emancipation of women, and their role(s) in civil service organisations. It covers the role of social media in organising, the significance of religion in many cultural contexts, activism in Eastern Europe and the impact of environmental degradation on women's lives.Trade Review"This anthology is a testament to both women's activism and the idea that together women's CSOs across the world can make a collective difference." Voluntas"An essential guide to research on civil society organisations and women's empowerment in a wide range of international contexts." Marjorie Mayo, Goldsmiths, University of London?"Rife with important insights for researchers and practitioners with emancipatory ambitions, and a wonderful example of the value of cross-fertilizing gender studies and research into civil society organizations." Charlotte Holgersson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Schwabenland, Christina Schwabenland; Chris Lange, Sachiko Nakagawa and Jennifer Onyx: `Empowerment’ as women’s emancipation? A global study in the influence of feminism in women’s NGOs ~ Ruth Phillips; Section One “Se non or quando?” (If not now, when ?) Birth, growth and challenges of a new voice within the feminist scenario in Italy ~ Elena Elia; Street harassment activism in the 21st century ~ Rochelle Keyhane; New gender-political impulses from Eastern Europe: the case of Pussy Riot ~ Eva Maria Hinterhuber and Gesine Fuchs; How a feminist activist group builds its repertoire of actions: a case study ~ Fabien Hildwein; From feminist extravagance to citizen demand: the movement for abortion legalization in Uruguay ~ Ines Pousadela; Sustainability from the bottom up: Women as change agents in the Niger delta ~ Charisma Acey; Section two: Emancipating organisation(s); A Women’s NGO as an incubator: promoting identity-based associations in Nepalese civil society ~ Masako Tanaka; Gender Democracy and Women’s Self Empowerment: A case of Somali diaspora civil society ~ Marco Tavanti, Cawo Abdi and Blaire MacHarg; The role of civil society organisations in the emancipation of Portuguese Roma women ~ Raquel Rego; Breaking down dichotomies in the narratives of women’s activism in Morocco ~ Aura Lounasmaa; Working within associations: Recognition in the public space for women? ~ Annie Dussuet and Erica Flahault; Flexible working practices in charities: supporting or hindering women’s emancipation in the workplace? ~ Sally East and Gareth Morgan; Examining and contextualising the impact of Kenya’s Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization Organization (MYWO) through an African feminist lens ~ Anne Namatsi Lutomia, Brenda Nyandiko Sanya and Dorothy Owino Rombo; Conclusions: Organizing for emancipation/ emancipating organizations? ~ Christina Schwabenland; Chris Lange, Sachiko Nakagawa and Jennifer Onyx.

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Book SynopsisThis collection examines the nexus between the emancipation of women, and their role(s) in civil service organisations. It covers the role of social media in organising, the significance of religion in many cultural contexts, activism in Eastern Europe and the impact of environmental degradation on women’s lives.Trade Review"This anthology is a testament to both women's activism and the idea that together women's CSOs across the world can make a collective difference." Voluntas"An essential guide to research on civil society organisations and women's empowerment in a wide range of international contexts." Marjorie Mayo, Goldsmiths, University of London?"Rife with important insights for researchers and practitioners with emancipatory ambitions, and a wonderful example of the value of cross-fertilizing gender studies and research into civil society organizations." Charlotte Holgersson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Schwabenland, Christina Schwabenland; Chris Lange, Sachiko Nakagawa and Jennifer Onyx: `Empowerment’ as women’s emancipation? A global study in the influence of feminism in women’s NGOs ~ Ruth Phillips; Section One “Se non or quando?” (If not now, when ?) Birth, growth and challenges of a new voice within the feminist scenario in Italy ~ Elena Elia; Street harassment activism in the 21st century ~ Rochelle Keyhane; New gender-political impulses from Eastern Europe: the case of Pussy Riot ~ Eva Maria Hinterhuber and Gesine Fuchs; How a feminist activist group builds its repertoire of actions: a case study ~ Fabien Hildwein; From feminist extravagance to citizen demand: the movement for abortion legalization in Uruguay ~ Ines Pousadela; Sustainability from the bottom up: Women as change agents in the Niger delta ~ Charisma Acey; Section two: Emancipating organisation(s); A Women’s NGO as an incubator: promoting identity-based associations in Nepalese civil society ~ Masako Tanaka; Gender Democracy and Women’s Self Empowerment: A case of Somali diaspora civil society ~ Marco Tavanti, Cawo Abdi and Blaire MacHarg; The role of civil society organisations in the emancipation of Portuguese Roma women ~ Raquel Rego; Breaking down dichotomies in the narratives of women’s activism in Morocco ~ Aura Lounasmaa; Working within associations: Recognition in the public space for women? ~ Annie Dussuet and Erica Flahault; Flexible working practices in charities: supporting or hindering women’s emancipation in the workplace? ~ Sally East and Gareth Morgan; Examining and contextualising the impact of Kenya’s Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organization Organization (MYWO) through an African feminist lens ~ Anne Namatsi Lutomia, Brenda Nyandiko Sanya and Dorothy Owino Rombo; Conclusions: Organizing for emancipation/ emancipating organizations? ~ Christina Schwabenland; Chris Lange, Sachiko Nakagawa and Jennifer Onyx.

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Book SynopsisThrough a series of interdisciplinary case studies, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements’ contexts. The book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help better understanding of new global forms of democracy in action.Trade Review"Since the proliferation of peace camps inspired by Greenham Common in the 1980s, the occupation of sites of political contestation has become a globally significant form of protest. This collection offers exciting and perceptive analyses of long-term site-specific political interventions around the world, and is a must-read for all those interested in social movements and contemporary politics." Sasha Roseneil, University of EssexTable of ContentsIntroduction: Past tents, present tents: On the importance of studying protest camps ~ Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel and Patrick McCurdy; Part 1: Assembling and Materializing; Section Introduction: Assembling & materializing ~ Patrick McCurdy, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, and Gavin Brown; Textile geographies, plasticity as protest ~ Anders Rubing; Emergent infrastructures: Solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul’s Gezi Park uprising ~ Özge Yaka and Serhat Karakayali; Protest spaces online and offline: The Indignant Movement in Syntagma Square ~ Anastasia Kavada and Orsalia Dimitriou; Feeds from the square: Live streaming, live tweeting and the self-representation of protest camps ~ Paulo Gerbaudo; Touching a nerve: A discussion on Hong Kong's umbrella movement ~ Wang Jieying (Klavier), Hope Reidun St. John, and Wong Miu Yin (Eliz); Part 2: Occupying and Colonizing; Section Introduction: Occupying and colonizing ~ Gavin Brown, Fabian Frenzel, Patrick McCurdy and Anna Feigenbaum; Carry on camping? The British Camp for Climate Action as a political refrain ~ Bertie Russell, Raph Schlembach and Ben Lear; Losing space in Occupy London: Fetishising the protest camp ~ Sam Halvorsen; Occupation, decolonization, and reciprocal violence, or history responds to Occupy’s anti-colonial critics ~ A K Thompson; Reoccupation and resurgence: Indigenous protest camps in Canada ~ Adam J. Barker and Russell Ross; Democratic deficit in the Israeli tent protests: Chronicle of a failed intervention ~ Uri Gordon; Euromaidan and the echoes of the Orange Revolution: Comparing social infrastructures and resistance practices of protest camps in Kiev (Ukraine) ~ Maryna Shevtsova; Civil/political society, protest and fasting: The case of Anna Hazare and the 2011 anti-corruption campaign in India ~ Andrew Davies; Part 3: Reproducing and Re-creating; Section Introduction: Reproducing and re-creating ~ Fabian Frenzel, Anna Feigenbaum, Patrick McCurdy and Gavin Brown; From ‘refugee population’ to political community: The Mustapha Mahmoud refugee protest camp ~ Elisa Pascucci; The Marconi Occupation in São Paulo, Brazil: A social laboratory of common life ~ Marcella Arruda; From protest camp to tent city: The ‘Free Cuvry’ Camp in Berlin-Kreuzberg ~ Niko Rollmann and Fabian Frenzel; Security is no accident: Considering safe(r) spaces in the transnational Migrant Solidarity camps of Calais ~ Claire English; Political education in protest camps: Spatializing dissensus and reconfiguring places of youth activist ritual in Mexico City ~ Nicholas Jon Crane; Part 4: Conclusion; Future tents: Protest camps and social movement organisation ~ Fabian Frenzel, Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum and Patrick McCurdy.

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Book SynopsisThrough a series of interdisciplinary case studies, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements' contexts. The book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help better understanding of new global forms of democracy in action.Trade Review"Since the proliferation of peace camps inspired by Greenham Common in the 1980s, the occupation of sites of political contestation has become a globally significant form of protest. This collection offers exciting and perceptive analyses of long-term site-specific political interventions around the world, and is a must-read for all those interested in social movements and contemporary politics." Sasha Roseneil, University of EssexTable of ContentsIntroduction: Past tents, present tents: On the importance of studying protest camps ~ Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel and Patrick McCurdy; Part 1: Assembling and Materializing; Section Introduction: Assembling & materializing ~ Patrick McCurdy, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, and Gavin Brown; Textile geographies, plasticity as protest ~ Anders Rubing; Emergent infrastructures: Solidarity, spontaneity and encounter at Istanbul’s Gezi Park uprising ~ Özge Yaka and Serhat Karakayali; Protest spaces online and offline: The Indignant Movement in Syntagma Square ~ Anastasia Kavada and Orsalia Dimitriou; Feeds from the square: Live streaming, live tweeting and the self-representation of protest camps ~ Paulo Gerbaudo; Touching a nerve: A discussion on Hong Kong's umbrella movement ~ Wang Jieying (Klavier), Hope Reidun St. John, and Wong Miu Yin (Eliz); Part 2: Occupying and Colonizing; Section Introduction: Occupying and colonizing ~ Gavin Brown, Fabian Frenzel, Patrick McCurdy and Anna Feigenbaum; Carry on camping? The British Camp for Climate Action as a political refrain ~ Bertie Russell, Raph Schlembach and Ben Lear; Losing space in Occupy London: Fetishising the protest camp ~ Sam Halvorsen; Occupation, decolonization, and reciprocal violence, or history responds to Occupy’s anti-colonial critics ~ A K Thompson; Reoccupation and resurgence: Indigenous protest camps in Canada ~ Adam J. Barker and Russell Ross; Democratic deficit in the Israeli tent protests: Chronicle of a failed intervention ~ Uri Gordon; Euromaidan and the echoes of the Orange Revolution: Comparing social infrastructures and resistance practices of protest camps in Kiev (Ukraine) ~ Maryna Shevtsova; Civil/political society, protest and fasting: The case of Anna Hazare and the 2011 anti-corruption campaign in India ~ Andrew Davies; Part 3: Reproducing and Re-creating; Section Introduction: Reproducing and re-creating ~ Fabian Frenzel, Anna Feigenbaum, Patrick McCurdy and Gavin Brown; From ‘refugee population’ to political community: The Mustapha Mahmoud refugee protest camp ~ Elisa Pascucci; The Marconi Occupation in São Paulo, Brazil: A social laboratory of common life ~ Marcella Arruda; From protest camp to tent city: The ‘Free Cuvry’ Camp in Berlin-Kreuzberg ~ Niko Rollmann and Fabian Frenzel; Security is no accident: Considering safe(r) spaces in the transnational Migrant Solidarity camps of Calais ~ Claire English; Political education in protest camps: Spatializing dissensus and reconfiguring places of youth activist ritual in Mexico City ~ Nicholas Jon Crane; Part 4: Conclusion; Future tents: Protest camps and social movement organisation ~ Fabian Frenzel, Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum and Patrick McCurdy.

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Book SynopsisLaunching the dementia debate into new and exciting territory, this book applies a human rights lens to interrogate the lived experience and policy response to dementia.Trade Review"This book is a down to earth, accessible translation of complex legal, sociological and ethical subjects and as such will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of dementia, practitioners and policy makers alike." Professor Kate Irving, Dublin City UniversityTable of ContentsAn introduction to human rights and dementia Dementia as a disability Setting the context: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The right to a good quality of life at home and in the community The right to a good quality of life in care homes or in nursing homes Emerging public policy on dementia: the implications of a human rights-based approach for policy and practice Legal capacity for people with dementia Conclusions: grounds for hope

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Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive account of prison populations worldwide, this new work links prison statistics from the last 15 years with considerations of how prisons and prison populations are managed. It is a major contribution to the knowledge of those currently debating prisons and the use of imprisonment.Trade Review"In this timely book, the authors outline a moral framework stating clearly and succinctly what needs to be done. Sustainable justice requires less emphasis on imprisonment and more on human and social development." Alison Liebling, Cambridge University"Imagine a world with more and more prisons. Imagine failing prisons, brutal and broken prisons. This is the world of Coyle and Co’s book. It shouldn’t be an easy read, but it is eminently readable. It asks urgent questions about the ethics of imprisonment that challenge us imagine something else, something better." Rod Earle, The Open University"The welcome publication of this excellent and thought provoking book will inform governments and parliaments worldwide about the limited role of imprisonment." Lord David Ramsbotham, Member of the UK House of Lords and former Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales“At a time when we are expecting significant change to public services including the criminal justice system, this vital tool for practitioners, academics and students provides a source of inspiration and a substantial body of evidence from around the world.” Frances Crook, CEO, The Howard League for Penal Reform"Comprehensive, concise, ethically informed, and attuned to future possibilities—A must read for penologists the world over." Robert Johnson, Professor of Justice, Law and Criminology, American University"A lovely little book. A great resource for anyone who wants the key information on imprisonment around the world." Richard Garside, Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies"This volume raises provocative questions about prisons and the imprisoned" - CHOICE reviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Section I: Prisons and the use of imprisonment: numbers and trends; Numbers of prisoners worldwide; Composition of prison populations worldwide; Prison population trends; Section II: An ethical approach to the use of imprisonment; What constitutes an ethical approach to the use of imprisonment?; Features of an ethical approach to the use of imprisonment; Challenges to an ethical approach to the use of imprisonment; Section III: An alternative future; Rethinking prisons and the use of imprisonment; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection explores how a human rights perspective offers new insights and tools into the current obstacles to education. It examines the role of private actors, the need to hold states to account, the balance between religion, culture and education, girls' right to education and the role of courts.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Kishore Singh Introduction ~ Sandra Fredman, Meghan Campbell and Helen Taylor Part I: The role of public and private actors in education Public rights and private schools: state accountability for violations of rights in education ~ Conor O’Mahony The dynamics of regulating low-fee private schools in Kenya ~ Gilbert Mitullah Omware Education at the margins: the potential benefits of private educational initiatives for disadvantaged groups ~ Melanie Smuts Part II: Balancing the right to freedom of religion and culture and the right to education Calling the farce on minority schools ~ Jayna Kothari The challenge of Afrikaans language rights in South African education ~ Michael Bishop Part III: Gender equality in education: moving beyond access to primary education Women and education: the right to substantive equality ~ Sandra Fredman Equality and the right to education: let’s talk about sex education ~ Meghan Campbell Part IV: Litigating for quality and equality in education Conceptualising and enforcing the right to quality education for minorities and disadvantaged groups: reflections of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity litigation ~ Helen Taylor From the classroom to the courtroom: litigating education rights in South Africa ~ Jason Brickhill and Yana van Leeve Human rights and equality in education: Conclusion ~ Sandra Fredman, Meghan Campbell and Helen Taylor

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality in doing research in and on conflict zones, as well as the complexity of methodological choices. It presents a nuanced view of conflict research that addresses the uncomfortable spaces of conflict research and the need for reflection on these issues.Trade Review"At the same time unsettling and empowering. A must read for all students and scholars interested in the world `out there'." Nicolas Lemay-Hebert, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsForeword ~ Robin Luckham Introduction ~ Althea-Maria Rivas and Brendan Browne Section I: Violence; On conducting unleashing interviews where control means life or death ~ Rose Løvgren; Qualitative Research in the Shadow of Violent Conflict ~ Patrick James Christian; Vignette 1 - The Play I could not Write ~ Laurel Borisenko Section II: Uncertainty; Ambivalent Reflections on Violence and Peace-Building Activist Research in the Post-Yugoslav Space ~ Paul Stubbs; Intervention, Autonomy and Power in Polarised Societies ~ Corinna Jentzsch; Vignette 2 - Packing for Kabul ~ Henri Myrttinen; Section III: Identity and Power; Formidable Fieldwork: Experiences of a Lesbian Researcher in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland ~ Sandra McEvoy; Insider-Outsider Reflections on Terrorism Research in the Coastal region of Kenya ~ Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen; Vignette 3 - Thinking about race and gender in conflict research ~ Althea-Maria Rivas; Bodies of Cyberwar: Violence and Knowledge Beyond Corporeality ~ Fabio Cristiano; Fields of Insecurity: Responding to flows of Information ~ Meike de Goede and Inge Ligtvoet; Vignette 4 - Visual ethnographic encounters and Silence in post-conflict Banda Aceh ~ Marijaana Jauhola; Section V: Methods; Writing the wrongs: Keeping diaries and reflective practice ~ Brendan Ciarán Browne; Abetting Atrocities? Reporting the Perspectives of Perpetrators in Research on Violence ~ Michael Broache; Empathy as a critical methodological tool for peace research ~ Sinéad Walsh; Vignette 5 - Land Grabbers in Kyrgyzstan ~ John Heathershaw.

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Book SynopsisWith thinking around the foundational economy becoming increasingly influential, this interdisciplinary collection sets out its role in renewing citizenship and informing policy. Drawing on case studies in areas of social and economic concern, it explores how foundational experiments can foster collective consumption and promote social justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones The Foundational Economy and the Civil Sphere ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones Part 1: Governance and Public Action Re-embedding the Economy within Digitalized Foundational Sectors: The Case of Platform Cooperativism ~ Davide Arcidiacono Ivana Pais Reframing Public Ownership in the Foundational Economy: (Re)discovering a Variety of Forms ~ Leonhard Plank The Nonprofit Paradox after the Crisis: How to Survive within a Changing Scenario ~ Sandro Busso and Joselle Dagnes Part 2: Housing and Urban Life Planning with Citizenship: An Idea whose time has come in Greater Manchester? ~ Julie Froud, Mike Hodson, Sukhdev Johal, Hua Wei and Karel Williams Housing and the grounded city: Rent extraction and social innovations ~ Massimo Bricocoli and Angelo Salento Part 3: Water and Waste Waste Management and Value Extraction in Italy: Where is the Citizen? Waste to Worth ~ Dario Minervini Civil Society and the Movement for Public Water: Water Management and its Transformation in England and Italy ~ Sergio Marotta and Ferdinando Spina Part 4: Food Changing Food Supply Chains: The Role of Citizens and Civil Society Organisations in Working Towards a Social Economy ~ Fabio Mostaccio Foodscapes of Hope: The Foundational Economy of Food ~ Kevin Morgan Conclusion Conclusions and New Policy Directions ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones

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Book SynopsisWith thinking around the foundational economy becoming increasingly influential, this interdisciplinary collection sets out its role in renewing citizenship and informing policy. Drawing on case studies in areas of social and economic concern, it explores how foundational experiments can foster collective consumption and promote social justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones The Foundational Economy and the Civil Sphere ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones Part 1: Governance and Public Action Re-embedding the Economy within Digitalized Foundational Sectors: The Case of Platform Cooperativism ~ Davide Arcidiacono Ivana Pais Reframing Public Ownership in the Foundational Economy: (Re)discovering a Variety of Forms ~ Leonhard Plank The Nonprofit Paradox after the Crisis: How to Survive within a Changing Scenario ~ Sandro Busso and Joselle Dagnes Part 2: Housing and Urban Life Planning with Citizenship: An Idea whose time has come in Greater Manchester? ~ Julie Froud, Mike Hodson, Sukhdev Johal, Hua Wei and Karel Williams Housing and the grounded city: Rent extraction and social innovations ~ Massimo Bricocoli and Angelo Salento Part 3: Water and Waste Waste Management and Value Extraction in Italy: Where is the Citizen? Waste to Worth ~ Dario Minervini Civil Society and the Movement for Public Water: Water Management and its Transformation in England and Italy ~ Sergio Marotta and Ferdinando Spina Part 4: Food Changing Food Supply Chains: The Role of Citizens and Civil Society Organisations in Working Towards a Social Economy ~ Fabio Mostaccio Foodscapes of Hope: The Foundational Economy of Food ~ Kevin Morgan Conclusion Conclusions and New Policy Directions ~ Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones

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Book SynopsisChildren in the Global South continue to be affected by social disadvantage in our unequal post-colonial world order. With a focus on working-class children in Latin America, this book explores the challenges of promoting children’s rights in a context of decolonization.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Children’s Rights From Below 1. Submission and Humiliation of Childhoods From a Decolonial Perspective 2. Children’s Rights Movements and the Hidden History of Children’s Rights 3. Children’s Rights Studies in Search of an Own Profile (with Rebecca Budde) 4. Ethical Challenges of Research With Children of the Global South (with Urszula Markowska-Manista) 5. Adultism, Children’s Political Participation and Voting Rights (with Philip Meade) Part 2: Children in Resistance 6. Children’s Rights and Political Subjectivities 7. Flexible Adaptation or Resistance? Paradoxes and Pitfalls of Discourses on Resilience in Children 8. Children’s Protagonism. Considerations for Its Reconceptualization 9. ‘Not About Us, but With Us!’ Perspectives of Insurgent Research With Children in Light of Their Rights Epilogue

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Book SynopsisAnalysing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality.

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Book SynopsisDuring the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared. In 1991, the new civilian government tasked the nation’s detective force to investigate these crimes. Pascale Bonnefoy tells the story of the detectives who hunted down and attempted to bring human rights violators to account.

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Book SynopsisThis in-depth study highlights the unique, precedent-setting approach taken by Argentina and Chile to empower human rights advocates while prosecuting the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, whose rise to power during the 1970s and 1980s once appeared unstoppable.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroductionChapter 1. State Terrorism in the Southern ConeChapter 2. The Construction of ImpunityChapter 3. Human Rights AdvocacyChapter 4. The Changing Legal Environment, Domestic and InternationalChapter 5. Precipitating EventsChapter 6. The Eclipse of ImpunityConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA thought-provoking study traces the origins of human rights beyond the Enlightenment to the evolution of humane discourse and empathetic thought in Ancient Greece.Trade Review[The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights] adduces striking parallels between ancient and modern thought and suggests promising future avenues of research. * The Classical Review *Table of Contents Timeline for Greece Key to Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Exploration A. Enlightened Athens in the Age of Jefferson Part I. Parallel Waves Chapter 1. Reason Chapter 2. Warfare Chapter 3. Empathy and Tears Chapter 4. Humane Discourse Exploration B. Cyrus the Great Part II. Ancient Greek Roots Chapter 5. Elements Chapter 6. Paths Exploration C. Tensions Conclusions Notes Works Cited Subject Index Index of Ancient Passages

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Book SynopsisIn Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland examines a 2005 massacre in Colombia, its subsequent investigation, official cover-up, and the international community's response to outline how the U.S. military's support for the Colombian Army contributed to atrocities while shaping the United States's dominant model of military intervention.Trade Review"Most studies of human rights violations approach cases at the national level and offer little insight into how U.S. military aid is territorialized. . . . By tracking the career trajectories of Colombian officers, Lindsay-Poland directs our attention to a shared war, and to a common counterinsurgent expertise, developed between the United States and Colombia over the course of 50 years." -- Emma Shaw Crane * NACLA *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue 1 Introduction: Challenging American Exceptionalism 7 1. The Longest War: U.S. Military Influence in Colombia, 1952-1995 26 2. War on the Frontier 38 3. How Plan Colombia Was Sold 51 4. "We Want a Witness": Accompaniment in San José de Apartadó 64 5. Mapping Our War: Where Did U.S. Aid in Colombia Go? 83 6. Killing the Future 101 7. Projects of Life 123 8. Massacre Aftermath and Cover-Up 140 9. Widespread and Systematic: The Dynamics of "Legalized" Murder 151 10. The United States Effect: Impacts on "False Positive" Killings 164 11. Investigation of the Massacre 183 12. An Encounter with Power 198 13. Judicial Warfare 210 14. U.S. Policy Lessons 220 Conclusion: The Arc of Impunity 226 Notes 233 Bibliography 273 Index 281

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Book SynopsisIn Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland examines a 2005 massacre in Colombia, its subsequent investigation, official cover-up, and the international community's response to outline how the U.S. military's support for the Colombian Army contributed to atrocities while shaping the United States's dominant model of military intervention.Trade Review"Most studies of human rights violations approach cases at the national level and offer little insight into how U.S. military aid is territorialized. . . . By tracking the career trajectories of Colombian officers, Lindsay-Poland directs our attention to a shared war, and to a common counterinsurgent expertise, developed between the United States and Colombia over the course of 50 years." -- Emma Shaw Crane * NACLA *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue 1 Introduction: Challenging American Exceptionalism 7 1. The Longest War: U.S. Military Influence in Colombia, 1952-1995 26 2. War on the Frontier 38 3. How Plan Colombia Was Sold 51 4. "We Want a Witness": Accompaniment in San José de Apartadó 64 5. Mapping Our War: Where Did U.S. Aid in Colombia Go? 83 6. Killing the Future 101 7. Projects of Life 123 8. Massacre Aftermath and Cover-Up 140 9. Widespread and Systematic: The Dynamics of "Legalized" Murder 151 10. The United States Effect: Impacts on "False Positive" Killings 164 11. Investigation of the Massacre 183 12. An Encounter with Power 198 13. Judicial Warfare 210 14. U.S. Policy Lessons 220 Conclusion: The Arc of Impunity 226 Notes 233 Bibliography 273 Index 281

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Book SynopsisIn the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interviewto the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In The Fixer Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker-known as a fixer-as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togoleseas well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.Trade Review"Extremely well written, The Fixer is a must-read for those striving for a more equitable world: their advocacy efforts around global mobility and migration cannot be understood divorced from global inequalities. The Fixer would be a great read for general readers, migration experts, policymakers, folks involved in advocacy for immigrants and displaced people, and students of immigration and transnational studies, as well as in courses on the challenges and ethics of ethnographic field research. Just a gentle warning — once you start the book, it is hard to put down." -- Faranak Miraftab * International Migration Review *“Scholars of Africa will appreciate how Piot combines his deep regional knowledge of Togo and his ethnographic expertise to highlight the larger global forces that shape the lives of migrant-refugees.” -- Marius Kothor * African Studies Review *"The Fixer demonstrates how skillful ethnography can help us better grasp the current political, economic, and cultural dynamics of migration as impacted by understandings of kinship, legitimacy, and local improvisation." -- Dubie Toa-Kwapong * Transforming Anthropology *"While the key theoretical interventions of the book are spelt out in the introduction, the rest of the book is written in clear prose accessible to academic and non-academic audiences. The book makes a fine contribution to migration studies, economic and legal anthropology, African studies, and US studies; it would be a great case study for graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields." -- Smoki Musaraj * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Business of Dreams 1 1. Border Practice 27 2. The Interview 45 3. Kinship by Other Means 63 4. Trading Futures 85 5. Embassy Indiscretions 109 6. Protest 124 7. Prison 134 8. America, Here We Come 148 9. Lomé 2018 171 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 207

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Book SynopsisIn the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interviewto the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In The Fixer Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker-known as a fixer-as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togoleseas well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.Trade Review"Extremely well written, The Fixer is a must-read for those striving for a more equitable world: their advocacy efforts around global mobility and migration cannot be understood divorced from global inequalities. The Fixer would be a great read for general readers, migration experts, policymakers, folks involved in advocacy for immigrants and displaced people, and students of immigration and transnational studies, as well as in courses on the challenges and ethics of ethnographic field research. Just a gentle warning — once you start the book, it is hard to put down." -- Faranak Miraftab * International Migration Review *“Scholars of Africa will appreciate how Piot combines his deep regional knowledge of Togo and his ethnographic expertise to highlight the larger global forces that shape the lives of migrant-refugees.” -- Marius Kothor * African Studies Review *"The Fixer demonstrates how skillful ethnography can help us better grasp the current political, economic, and cultural dynamics of migration as impacted by understandings of kinship, legitimacy, and local improvisation." -- Dubie Toa-Kwapong * Transforming Anthropology *"While the key theoretical interventions of the book are spelt out in the introduction, the rest of the book is written in clear prose accessible to academic and non-academic audiences. The book makes a fine contribution to migration studies, economic and legal anthropology, African studies, and US studies; it would be a great case study for graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields." -- Smoki Musaraj * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Business of Dreams 1 1. Border Practice 27 2. The Interview 45 3. Kinship by Other Means 63 4. Trading Futures 85 5. Embassy Indiscretions 109 6. Protest 124 7. Prison 134 8. America, Here We Come 148 9. Lomé 2018 171 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 207

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Book SynopsisFocusing on Costa Rica and Brazil, Andrea Ballestero examines the legal, political, economic, and bureaucratic history of water in the context of the efforts to classify it as a human right, showing how seemingly small scale devices such as formulas and lists play large role in determining water's status.Trade Review"Through the brilliant selection of the devices to exhibit her ideas, the author invites readers to think deeply beyond courts or treaties establishing a human right to water and shows how many other factors also contribute to and shape this." -- Gayathri D Naik * LSE Review of Books *"[Ballestero's] insightful analysis convinces the reader that such apparently mundane technical devices are indeed wonderful in their capacities to compose the water worlds of the future." -- Veronica Strang * PoLAR *“Throughout her ethnography, Ballestero emphasizes the messiness and oftentimes mundane work it takes to make access to water a human right within capitalist society…. A Future History of Water showcases how everyday technolegal devices perform the essential work of creating a future in which water is accessible to all.” -- Kelsey Kim * Catalyst *“Ballestero’s elegant formulation allows for an anthropology of water not found elsewhere. It is an account attentive to both ethnographic detail and to the insight that anthropology can bring to larger debates over water’s value, management, and meaning. A Future History of Water should be on shelves of water scholars interested in the intersections of politics, economics, and the material relations of water. It will make an excellent contribution to courses at undergraduate and graduate levels in anthropology and critical social sciences.” -- Jeremy J. Schmidt * Anthropos *“A Future History of Water is an important contribution to the literature on urban infrastructure, water policy and the urbanisation of the global south, as well as to environmental anthropology. The book reveals how widespread global water policy is; the policy of water pipes, the functioning of local policy and the unforeseen consequences of economic reforms…. Through a careful choice of devices, the author encourages the reader to think globally about the human right to water and shows how many factors, outside of laws and treaties, still contribute to supporting and shaping the recognition of water as a human right.” -- Simona Zupanc * Anthropological Notebooks *“Dense and beautifully detailed, Ballestero’s story shows how government bureaucrats and regulators moved beyond the declarative to the actual performance of the exacting work that a commitment to rights demands. In the process, the book unravels a set of seemingly uncharismatic devices, such as the consumer price index. Ballestero makes these technical tools appear as exuberant microcosms of technopolitical craftiness, unexpected historical depth, and ethical future-making." -- Andrea Muehlebach * Public Works *“After many years of relative abandonment, the topic of water has flooded back into anthropology.... At the forefront of this renovated interest in the topic of water is Andrea Ballestero, and her excellent book A Future History of Water.” -- Casey Walsh * Luso-Brazilian Review *“Proportions and bifurcations play a central role in Andrea Ballestero’s mesmerizing and indispensable monograph on the practical futures of water governance.... Such is the virtue of this wondrous book :an ethnography of proportions that is disproportionately rewarding." -- Alberto Corsin-Jimenez * Allegra Lab *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Formula 36 2. Index 75 3. List 109 4. Pact 144 Conclusion 185 Notes 201 References 211 Index 225

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Book SynopsisFocusing on Costa Rica and Brazil, Andrea Ballestero examines the legal, political, economic, and bureaucratic history of water in the context of the efforts to classify it as a human right, showing how seemingly small scale devices such as formulas and lists play large role in determining water's status.Trade Review"Through the brilliant selection of the devices to exhibit her ideas, the author invites readers to think deeply beyond courts or treaties establishing a human right to water and shows how many other factors also contribute to and shape this." -- Gayathri D Naik * LSE Review of Books *"[Ballestero's] insightful analysis convinces the reader that such apparently mundane technical devices are indeed wonderful in their capacities to compose the water worlds of the future." -- Veronica Strang * PoLAR *“Throughout her ethnography, Ballestero emphasizes the messiness and oftentimes mundane work it takes to make access to water a human right within capitalist society…. A Future History of Water showcases how everyday technolegal devices perform the essential work of creating a future in which water is accessible to all.” -- Kelsey Kim * Catalyst *“Ballestero’s elegant formulation allows for an anthropology of water not found elsewhere. It is an account attentive to both ethnographic detail and to the insight that anthropology can bring to larger debates over water’s value, management, and meaning. A Future History of Water should be on shelves of water scholars interested in the intersections of politics, economics, and the material relations of water. It will make an excellent contribution to courses at undergraduate and graduate levels in anthropology and critical social sciences.” -- Jeremy J. Schmidt * Anthropos *“A Future History of Water is an important contribution to the literature on urban infrastructure, water policy and the urbanisation of the global south, as well as to environmental anthropology. The book reveals how widespread global water policy is; the policy of water pipes, the functioning of local policy and the unforeseen consequences of economic reforms…. Through a careful choice of devices, the author encourages the reader to think globally about the human right to water and shows how many factors, outside of laws and treaties, still contribute to supporting and shaping the recognition of water as a human right.” -- Simona Zupanc * Anthropological Notebooks *“Dense and beautifully detailed, Ballestero’s story shows how government bureaucrats and regulators moved beyond the declarative to the actual performance of the exacting work that a commitment to rights demands. In the process, the book unravels a set of seemingly uncharismatic devices, such as the consumer price index. Ballestero makes these technical tools appear as exuberant microcosms of technopolitical craftiness, unexpected historical depth, and ethical future-making." -- Andrea Muehlebach * Public Works *“After many years of relative abandonment, the topic of water has flooded back into anthropology.... At the forefront of this renovated interest in the topic of water is Andrea Ballestero, and her excellent book A Future History of Water.” -- Casey Walsh * Luso-Brazilian Review *“Proportions and bifurcations play a central role in Andrea Ballestero’s mesmerizing and indispensable monograph on the practical futures of water governance.... Such is the virtue of this wondrous book :an ethnography of proportions that is disproportionately rewarding." -- Alberto Corsin-Jimenez * Allegra Lab *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Formula 36 2. Index 75 3. List 109 4. Pact 144 Conclusion 185 Notes 201 References 211 Index 225

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Book SynopsisNarratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of civil rights law As the mixed-race population in the United States grows, public fascination with multiracial identity has promoted the belief that racial mixture will destroy racism. However, multiracial people still face discrimination. Many legal scholars hold that this is distinct from the discrimination faced by people of other races, and traditional civil rights laws built on a strict black/white binary need to be reformed to account for cases of discrimination against those identifying as mixed-race. In Multiracials and Civil Rights, Tanya Katerí Hernández debunks this idea, and draws on a plethora of court cases to demonstrate that multiracials face the same types of discrimination as other racial groups. Hernández argues that multiracial people are primarily targeted for discrimination due to their non-whiteness, and shows how the cases highlight the neTrade Review"[Hernandez’s] personal story as told in the preface helps enrich and inform this highly recommended work." -- CHOICE"In Multiracials and Civil Rights, Tanya Kateri Hernandez insightfully analyzes the claim that mixed race people will end racial discrimination as we know it and render inadequate the existing legal tools to address it. At the same time, Hernandez skillfully addresses the claims that the civil rights laws fail to address the discrimination against multiracial people in American social life. Unfortunately, racism and discrimination based on physical appearance -- even with the rise of multiracialism -- is alive and well in the modern United States and the traditional legal tools exist to support efforts to challenge discrimination against multiracial people. Multiracials and Civil Rights is a 'must read' for anyone interested in sophisticated analysis of the use of the civil rights laws to challenge discrimination in the United States." -- Kevin R. Johnson,Dean, UC Davis School of Law"The increase in interracial marriages following the Supreme Courts decision in Loving v. Virginia ushered in an era of racial self-identification as Lovings children struggle to define themselves in a world that views race as monolithic. Multiracials and Civil Rights is an important contribution to the emerging literature about the post-Loving multiracial generation. It explores claims that multiracials experience a unique form of race-based discrimination. This thoroughly researched book is a must read, the first legally-focused discussion of whether current anti-discrimination law adequately addresses discrimination claims by multiracials." -- Taunya Lovell Banks,Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence, University of Maryland Law School

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Book SynopsisShows the maddening difficulties that voter ID requirements create for participants in US democracy and offers concrete solutions for every person's vote and voice to countOver the past decade, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of voter ID laws has skyrocketed, limiting the ability of nearly twenty-five million eligible voters from exercising their constitutional right to cast a vote. In States of Confusion, Don Waisanen, Sonia Jarvis, and Nicole Gordon explore this crisis and the difficulties it has created for American voters, offering practical solutions for this increasingly important problem. Focusing on ten states with the strictest voter documentation requirements, the authors show how people face major barriers to exercising their fundamental democratic right to vote and are therefore slipping through the cracks of our electoral system. They explore voter experiences by drawing on hundreds of online surveys, audits of 150 election offices, community focus groups,Trade Review""A detailed study of the many ways in which voter documentation requirements discriminate against voters likely to join the blue column. Essential for voting rights advocates and policymakers."" * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisA renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by Donald Trump's 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting Blood and Soil and Jews will not replace us! Like Trump, the Charlottesville marchers were dismissed as aberrationscrazed extremists who did not represent the real US. It Can Happen Here demonstrates that, rather than being exceptional, such white power extremism and the violent atrocities linked to it are a part of American history. And, alarmingly, they remain a very real threat to the US today. Alexander Hinton explains how murky politics, structural racism, the promotion of American exceptionalism, and a belief that the US has have achieved a color-blind society have diverted attention from the deep roots of white supremacist violence in the US's brutal past. DTrade Review[Alexander Laban] Hinton offers deep instruction for anyone seeking to better understand the bigotry that permeates American society [...] Hinton is deeply concerned with the idea of why people hate and how that hate plays out publicly [...] [W]ell-researched, readable account. * Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review *With sober analysis and in assiduous detail, Hinton explores the ways the United States is 'simmering at a low boil,' and evinces every risk indicator for widespread mass atrocity crimes...Alarming but never alarmist, Hinton provides a chilling introduction to genocide studies through a chronicle of his travails during the Trump years. * Salon.com *Fortunately Hinton does not leave us with problems, but has a solution too: A Truth Commission on White Supremacy and Its Legacies that would extend beyond the aims of the reparations bill following the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, and open a discussion about the perpetrations of white nationalists and supremacists in a past yet unaccounted for. The understanding Hinton provides to events marking US history is objective, nuanced and noble, and teaches us readers that in seeking to define and judge phenomena and people intelligently, accurately and critically, these must necessarily be placed in the continuum of time and space. * LSE Review of Books *By offering a thorough analysis of Trump’s speeches and alt-right moral economies, It Can Happen Here links America’s history of white supremacy and contemporary struggles over race to perceived threats to America’s future. Hinton clears a new path for critical engagement through the face of public anthropology. Among the best critically engaged writing of our time. A must read! -- Kamari Maxine Clarke, University of California Los AngelesIn chilling detail, It Can Happen Here traces particular racialized patterns that serve as warning and prompt for further examination of the deepest conditions that make genocide possible. -- Alisse Waterston, author of Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for MeaningWith an anthropologist’s eye, Cambodia expert Alexander Laban Hinton analyzes the US white power scene and discerns disturbing parallels with the Khmer Rouge paranoia he has studied so closely. It is the long history of genocide and slavery in this country that provides the historically meaningful framework, he argues, rather than interwar European fascism. Analytically hard-hitting, Hinton’s book is a model of critical reflection. -- A. Dirk Moses, author of The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of TransgressionCould white power advocates’ dreams of racial genocide happen here? Hinton takes on that chilling question by looking at how people think about racial violence, from white supremacists at Charlottesville, to those charged with atrocities in the Cambodian genocide and students in his college classroom. The result is an account that is engaging, informative, and a model of the difficult dialogues in our schools and communities that are needed to begin healing our racially fractured society. -- Kathleen Blee, author of Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and ResearchFor those who have been grappling with ways to bring discussions surrounding authoritarianism in the United States, white supremacist violence, and Donald Trump into college and high school classrooms, this book offers a useful template to follow. * Ethnic & Racial Studies *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 Best Book Award, Law Category, given by the American Book FestExamines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administrationWithin days of taking office, President Donald J. Trump published or announced changes to immigration law and policy. These changes have profoundly shaken the lives and well-being of immigrants and their families, many of whom have been here for decades, and affected the work of the attorneys and advocates who represent or are themselves part of the immigrant community. Banned examines the tool of discretion, or the choice a government has to protect, detain, or deport immigrants, and describes how the Trump administration has wielded this tool in creating and executing its immigration policy. Banned combines personal interviews, immigration law, policy analysis, and case studies to answer the following questions: (1) what does immigration enforcement and discretion look like in the time of Trump? (2) whTrade Review"This meticulously argued work succeeds in illuminating with plain language what the immigration system obscures behind jargon and steel bars." * STARRED Library Journal *"Now more than ever we need experts such as Professor Shoba Wadhia to make sense of the senseless immigration policies put forth by the Trump administration. Banned combines thoughtful analysis of immigration law and policy with insightful case studies and interviews, culminating in a powerful reminder of the human toll taken on individuals and families caught in the crossfire of prejudice and fear. Banned is a clarion call to reassert humane immigration policy as a core American value." -- Chris Coons, United States Senator"Banned is a significant witness to this unprecedented time in immigration policy." * William Stock, Founding Partner, Klasko Immigration Law Partners, and Past President, American Immigration Lawyers Association *"Banned presents a fascinating discussion of the significant immigration policy changes undertaken by the Trump administration, from the Muslim travel ban to asylum and detention issues. Having represented individuals subject to the travel ban, I have personally seen the tragedies caused by an inhumane and discriminatory policy. Shoba Wadhia shines a bright light on the depth of the drastic changes being made to a country founded by and for immigrants." -- Mahsa Khanbabai, Khanbabai Immigration Law"Banned is a thoughtful look at the immigration initiatives of the Trump administration. Shoba Wadhia critically examines immigration enforcement and the exercise of discretion in immigration matters by the new administration . . . Banned is a definite “must read” for anyone interested in what perhaps has been one of the most rapid periods of change in immigration enforcement ever." -- Kevin R. Johnson, Dean, School of Law, and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicanx Studies, University of California, Davis"When he began separating immigrant children from their parents, what President Trump did not count on was that the resistance would include the sharp eye and careful pen wielded by the erstwhile Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, in her splendid work, Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump. Professor Wadhia is the best counterpoint to the President, as she has gathered all the evidence of his political perfidy, and has shown clearly how his attempts to upend international norms have failed to gain traction." -- Michael A Olivas, author of No Undocumented Child Left Behind: Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren"Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is an ideal chronicler of how the architecture of immigration law has dramatically changed under the Trump Administration. After the Muslim ban was announced, Wadhia became an indispensable part of the network of lawyers and activists who mobilized in response. In Banned, Wadhia uses accessible language and a community-centered approach to explain the impact of the Muslim ban, family separation, temporary protected status, and other immigration policies on the daily lives of people. Banned is a vital resource for activists, organizers, lawyers, and practitioners seeking to better understand the current political moment." -- Deepa Iyer, Author of We Too Sing America; South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future"From separating families to banning Muslims to countless other cruelties, President Trump has claimed an almost limitless power to banish immigrants and refugees from our land. The nation’s leading expert on immigration enforcement eloquently exposes the illegality of these policies and their devastating impact on immigrant and refugee families." * Stephen H. Legomsky, John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus, Washington University in St Louis School of Law, and former Chief Counsel, US Citizenship & Immigration Services *"Very accessibly written, the book will be a great resource for those with little concrete knowledge of immigration issues in the Trump era. Minimal use of jargon makes the book valuable to a very wide audience, including readers across the entire spectrum of higher education." * Choice *"Shoba Wadhia provides a great deal of food for thought for readers." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *"Banned ... [provides] valuable insight into the many layers of discretion that impact persons crossing borders, beginning with the first encounter that migrants have with border officials, and extending all the way to the highest levels of an administration that has sought to implement far-reaching changes in policy without regard for longstanding rules against arbitrary and capricious behavior." * International Journal of Refugee Law *"Banned is an excellent book for a general audience reader hoping to gain a quick understanding of immigration changes under Trump, as well as for a reader more familiar with immigration law who will appreciate seeing the major currents organized and described so deftly in a short space." * International Migration Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Being Watched traces the history of political surveillance aimed at dissenters exercising free speech rights and, more recently, cyber surveillance aimed at everybody. The focus, with an easy explanatory style and depth brought to complex legal and technological issues, is the evolution of an obscure, judicially-created legal theory used by the Supreme Court over the last several decades to reject even minimal constitutional restraints on government surveillance. Must reading for anyone concerned about the erosion of privacy and cyber integrity." -- David Kairys, Temple law professor, author of Philadelphia Freedom, Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer"How many Americans realize that a wide array government surveillance practices has been effectively shielded from judicial review because of obscure legal rules about who has the requisite standing to sue? In Being Watched, Jeffrey Vagle weaves together cultural, social, and legal history to tell a tale about how Americas surveillance regime has largely managed to steer clear of meaningful checks and balances. Being Watched is an experts account of government surveillance in America stretching from the Civil War to our present post-Snowden moment, filled with details useful to the scholar and the general public alike." -- Ben Wizner,Director, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, American Civil Liberties Union"To most non-lawyers, 'standing' is an arcane legal principle. But understanding what it is and what it means is essential to understanding why the courts have not been an effective check on improper government surveillance. Vagle explains it all, very clearly, and explains what it means for privacy and civil liberties." -- Steven M. Bellovin,Columbia University

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Book SynopsisHow the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in the Indian public sphere in the mid-1980s when the rise of HIV/AIDS became a frightening issue. The Indian state started to fold these groups into national HIV/AIDS policies as high-risk groups in an attempt to create an effective response to the epidemic. Lakkimsetti argues that over time the crisis of HIV/AIDS effectively transformed the relationship between sexual minorities and the state from one that was focused on juridical exclusion to one of inclusion. The new relationship then enabled affected groups to demand rights and citizenship from the Indian state that had been previously unimaginable. By illuminating such tactics as mobilizing agTrade ReviewA thrilling read that imparts substantial wisdom about the perils and windfalls social movements experience when they approach the postcolonial state for rights and recognition. Lakkimsetti’s engaging prose immerses readers in the gripping real-life dilemmas that Indian gender and sexual minority and sex worker rights activists have faced. Unlike other books that critique activists for falling into the predatory state’s ‘trap,’ this book refreshingly suspends this antagonistic narrative in favor of one that foregrounds the complex strategic decisions that activists make. -- Ashley Currier, author of Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: Homophobia in MalawiA compelling, well-written, and insightful analytical narrative of the role of HIV/AIDS in shaping the landscape of sexual politics in India. By bringing together the often disparately understood constituencies of LGBTQ+ and sex workers, the book contributes to understanding the synergies as well as the differences between their political mobilizations. -- Sharmila Rudrappa, author of Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in IndiaIn Legalizing Sex, a deeply researched, theoretically sophisticated, and well written book, Chaitanya Lakkimsetti makes a compelling and complex argument about how a global epidemic like HIV/AIDS shifted the power relationship between sexual minorities and the state in India from juridical to biopower, enabling them to function as subjects and citizens. * Mobilization *

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