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Book SynopsisAn insider's look at the power of comedy to effect social changeFrom Trevor Noah's The Daily Show and Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act, to Issa Rae's Insecure and Corey Ryan Forrester's Twitter feed, today's multi-platform comedy refuses to shy away from the social issues that define our time.As more comedians lean into social justice activism, they help reshape the entertainment industry and offer creative, dynamic avenues for social change. The Revolution Will Be Hilarious offers a compelling insider's look at how comedy and social justice activists are working together in a revolutionary media moment. Caty Borum invites readers into an expanding, enterprising arena of participatory culture and politics through in-depth interviews with comedians, social justice leaders, and Hollywood players. Their insights shed light on questions such as: What role does comedy play in helping communities engage the public with challenging social issues? HoTrade ReviewCaty Borum shows us why she is the leading expert in the field of comedy & social justice. The Revolution Will Be Hilarious is essential reading for all the creative deviants out there who wish to engage with comedy as a form of artistic resistance. -- Josh Church, producer of Bros and George Carlin’s American Dream, Apatow ProductionsCaty Borum's analysis of the intersection of activism and humor highlights how much comedy plays a role in shaping the way we think and shaping the way we see the world as it is. This book also beautifully illustrates how humor can help us shape the world into what we hope it could be. There is no one more qualified to take us on such a journey than Caty Borum. -- Roy Wood Jr., Comedian, Correspondent, The Daily ShowArguing that humor is a fuel that powers positive change, Borum shows up- close how comedians turn communities of laughter into communities of action. A fun read and full of insight, this book is essential for anyone interested in the business of comedy and the power of grassroots politics. -- Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz, authors of That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for ThemThe book that comedy and social justice never knew it needed! The revelations, stories, and ideas presented are inspirational. A must-read for anyone who is interested in the intersection of entertainment and culture. -- Deniese Davis, founder/CEO, Reform Media Group; co-executive producer, Insecure; producer, A Black Lady Sketch ShowIn response to years of clear social upheaval in the United States, from renewed fights for social justice to new threats of authoritarianism, a new, diverse set of comedy voices are using humor in their activism. Caty Borum chronicles this phenomenon in her entertaining book The Revolution Will Be Hilarious. * Foreword Reviews *An important addition to support multidisciplinary research in the social sciences and fine arts, with a wide appeal for those interested in the role of activist comedy on emerging social media platforms. * Library Journal *The Revolution Will Be Hilarious shows how much media can emerge, converge, and use comedy as an effective tool for bringing about lasting change. -- Brian Boone * Vulture *It is clear from reading The Revolution Will Be Hilarious that Borum cares quite deeply about the power of civic organizations to drive social and political change and that her active, engaged scholarship is helping to promote a revolution that is both funny and impactful....Borum shows us just what can happen when comedians and activists work together to promote social change. * International Journal of Communication *

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Book SynopsisHow activist groups across the country adapted their strategies and tactics to their local contexts to keep the protests aliveOn January 21, 2017, the day after Trump's inauguration, feminist activists and allies across many progressive movements assembled across the United States to express their displeasure with the new President and his agenda. These marches were unprecedented in size, bringing together as many as 5.3 million Americans, with at least 408 protests in cities and towns across the country. These protests were large and dramatic, and had an outsized impact. But, they do not tell the whole story of this wave of contention. Keeping the March Alive follows thirty-five progressive groups founded after the Women's March across ten cities from Amarillo and Atlanta to Pasadena and Pittsburgh to tell the whole story of how some social movement organizations survive and thrive while others falter. Catherine Corrigall-Brown explains how activists navigate their local context andTrade ReviewPenetrating cross-sectional analysis of how different grassroots networks formed and endured through the challenges of the Trump years. This is a book both for the moment and – given the enduring challenges to American democracy – for the future. * Sidney Tarrow, author of Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development *A terrific contribution to our understanding of the strategic choices that affect the ongoing mobilization of social movements. The book provides an impressive model of multi-method research and demonstrates the importance of tactics, coalition work, recruitment techniques, and online technologies in keeping the movement alive. * Suzanne Staggenborg, author of Grassroots Environmentalism *With great nuance and an impressive trove of quantitative and qualitative data, Corrigall-Brown’s deep dive into grassroots activism shows how local contexts fueled and shaped mobilization during an intense period of resistance. Not only an empirically rich and engaging read, Keeping the March Alive is also a welcome theoretical achievement in terms of movement context and survival, tactics, coalitions, and online mobilization. * Alison Dahl Crossley, author of Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution *

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Book SynopsisProposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison We rely on the adversarial legal system to hold offenders accountable, ensure everyone is playing by the same rules, and keep our streets safe. Unfortunately, a grave condition lingers under the surface: at all times the imprisonment of possibly tens of thousands of innocent people. The Plea of Innocence offers a fundamental reform of the adversarial system: plausibly innocent people may now plead innocent and require the government to search for exonerating facts; in return, they will be required to waive their right to remain silent, speak to government agents, and participate in a search for truth. While almost all the participants within the system hope that only guilty people will be convicted, the unfortunate reality is that innocent people are convicted and imprisoned at an alarming rate. With the privatization of defense institutions, accused innocent peopleTrade Review"Featuring compelling analysis and exceptional scholarship, The Plea of Innocence illustrates how the justice system can be revised to protect innocent people from conviction. Few books could be more important or timely." -- Brian Levin, California State University, San Bernardino"Worthy of full consideration by legal scholars and anyone with an interest in justice for those who are innocent." -- Ros Burnett, University of Oxford"A timely and important contribution. As calls for reforming the justice system increasingly enter into the public sphere, Bakken offers a compelling path forward, one that is both possible and revolutionary." -- Marvin Zalman, Wayne State University"Remarkable and convincing. The book is well-written, thoroughly researched and enjoyable to read. It is a rethinking of the criminal law that everyone involved in the criminal justice system should read and contemplate." -- John Hill * The Lawyer's Daily *

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracyOn August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. However, they also brought into sharp relief another American tradition: antiracism. While racists marched and chanted in the streets, they were met and matched by even larger numbers of protesters calling for racism's end. Racism is America's original and most enduring sin, with well-known historic and contemporary markers: slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining, mass incarceration, police brutality. But racism has always been challenged by an opposing political theory and practice. Alex Zamalin's Antiracism tells the story of that opposition. The most theoretically generative and politically valuable source of antiracist thought has been the blacTrade Review"[D]escribes the history of U.S. movements to contest racism...As an introduction to the intellectual history and political theory of antiracism, Zamalins book is ideal..." * Library Journal *"The author provides valuable historical context on the social construct of racial identity....Zamalin's vision is pragmatic with a touch of idealism. He doesn't necessarily place moral superiority on nonviolence over more militant tactics, and he recognizes that black rebellion intensifies resistance from a conservative status quo. As he insists throughout, it is not enough to believe that you are not racist; you must actively work against racism in all its institutional and insidious forms." * Kirkus Review *"A spirited and learned introduction to a vital topic. Antiracism combines a long historical sweep with deep consideration of what Dr. King once called the 'fierce urgency of now.' Drawing impressively on cultural as well as political sources it reminds readers of the centrality of struggles against structural inequalities, not just against ugly racist opinions, to initiatives for racial justice." -- David Roediger, Author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All"Alex Zamalin provides a comprehensive account of the philosophical underpinnings and practices of anti-racism in the United States. Theoretically nuanced and politically astute, this little book offers a primer on American anti-racism past and present. A fine tool for teaching and political work." -- David Theo Goldberg, Author of Are We All Postracial Yet?"This isby farthe best introduction to the profoundly important topic of Anti-Racism." -- Gerald Horne, Author of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism"Zamalin’s book is an impressive introduction to antiracist thought and practice. In the wake of increasing white terrorist massacres, it could not come at a better time." * New Political Science *

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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 Trade Review"A 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 Malawi"A 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 India"In 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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Book SynopsisHow do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movements for women's and gay liberationincluding consciousness-raising, separatism, and coming out of the closetwere translated into a range of American popular culture forms. Throughout this period, feminist and gay activists fought social and political battles to expand, transform, or wholly explode definitions of so-called normal gender and sexuality. In doing so, they inspired artists, writers, and filmmakers to invent new ways of formally representing, or giving shape to, non-normative genders and sexualities. This included placing women, queers, and gender outlaws of all stripes into exhilarating new environmentsfrom the streets of an increasingly gay San Francisco to a post-apocalyptic commune, from an Upper East Side New York City apartment to an all-female version of Earthand finding new ways to formally render queTrade Review"This is the book I have been waiting for: fearless, brilliant, and filled with love for feminist and queer cultural forms. Rather than fetishizing formlessness as the pinnacle of freedom, Ramzi Fawaz assembles and mines a rich and moving archive of feminist and queer cultural forms that have given us tools to practice intimacy, radical vulnerability, friendship, and worldmaking. Queer Forms was written out of a deep affection for the visionary work of feminist and queer cultural producers, offering us a blueprint for allowing feminist and queer worlds to take shape." * Jennifer C. Nash, author of Birthing Black Mothers *"An invigorating work of queer feminist political theory and imagination. Defying the received demand that instances of nonnormative gender identity remain fluid and formless, Ramzi Fawaz dares to present subversive examples of gender and sexual outlaws whose actions track an unfinished project of freedom. In a range of brilliant readings across political movements and cultural texts, he advances new figures of the thinkable and democratic worldmaking that inspire free action in the present." * Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago *"Parting ways with queer theory’s preference for the ephemeral, Queer Forms feels the touch and re-touch of shapeshifting forms as it sets queer studies in new and dynamic relation to its objects in the world. In one of his signal claims, Fawaz uses the materiality of form to rethink the pervasive and privileged association of queerness with formlessness and fluidity. Thus, he argues that feminist and queer ideas become meaningful as they take material shape within the realm of popular cultural production, where they change audiences in ways that neither a pedantic politics nor a moralizing theory can." * Matt Brim, author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University *"An inspirational history of queer and feminist cultural politics forged in the 1970s and extending to the 1990s. Ramzi Fawaz brilliantly maps the forms of relationality that feminist, lesbian, and gay communities invented to visualize themselves and their futures. In an argument that is both crystalline and capacious, he has discerned patterns across a wide range of popular cultural texts, objects, and images, and he demonstrates how radical change has been—and can be—imagined and enacted. Queer Forms is generously both history and manifesto. It calls on us to ask with each other how we want to see our future take shape." * David J. Getsy, author of Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender *"With Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz has examined gender and sexual formlessness illustrated by queer and feminist film, literature and visual culture. This 'shapeshifting' allows for greater evolution, authenticity and intimacy for all." -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *"Including detailed footnotes, a thorough bibliography, and illustrative images, this volume will interest and engage those working in the field of women's and gender studies." -- R. Stone (Mt. St. Joseph University) * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA diligent historian who provides important cultural and social context throughout the text, Jones reminds readers that... it was at Black schools that the most state violence was exercised. A well-researched and written addition to the history of the tumultuous 1960s. * Kirkus Reviews *A thought-provoking, compelling, nuanced, and highly accessible reading for all levels. * Choice *The Tuskegee Student Uprising is a significant addition to the literature on the Black Power Movement, the Black Student Movement, and the histories of student activism. -- Joshua Myers, Howard UniversityFeaturing impressive archival research and interviews with those who were present at the uprising, Jones deftly brings to life an important historical event within the Black Power movement. An inspiring book. -- Stefan M. Bradley, author of Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy LeagueThe Tuskegee Student Uprising is a tremendous contribution to our understanding of the history of Black education, the Black Power movement on campus, and the role of students in defining the terms of their education. Until now, historical accounts have too often sidelined students as passive recipients of Tuskegee’s schooling, rather than attending to the vital role they played in contesting and reshaping the nature of their education. As anti-history laws are increasingly being passed in states across the country to limit the teaching of structural racism, the vibrant history revealed in The Tuskegee Student Uprising provides context for longstanding debates over curriculum and illuminates urgent lessons from Black students about how to define education for themselves. -- Jesse Hagopian, co-editor of Teaching for Black LivesThis story needs to be told. The complexities and intentions that Jones so eloquently and rigorously exposes are breathtaking. The Tuskegee Student Uprising is a page turner through a long forgotten history. A black history must-read. -- Bettina Love, author of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational FreedomAn essential new history of the long history of Black student protest at one of the most well-known HBCUs in the country. By deftly situating the long history of student protest at Tuskegee alongside the nationwide uprisings of the 1960s, Jones has provided a history that expands the boundaries of the Black Freedom Movement. Essential reading for the Black Lives Matter era. -- Robyn Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

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Book SynopsisGoes beyond the category of transgender to question the need for gender classificationBeyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion? Heath Fogg Davis offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the world into not just Male and Female categories but even additional categories of Transgender and gender fluid. Davis, himself a transgender man, explores the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters. <Trade ReviewWe will soon be reading books that are truly new, indeed revolutionary, in arguing that the future of gender will be the end of gender binaries altogether.How can future writers debate & essential sex differences when there are more than two sexes, or when some women and men who choose to become the other, and when some people want to be both or neither?Heath Fogg Daviss Beyond Trans: Does gender matter?, one of the first among many that I am sure are in the pipeline, invites readers to question why we care so much about labels and categories on drivers licences, passports and bathroom doors, and in sports and schools. * Times Literary Supplement *Both clear-eyed and eye-opening, Beyond Transchallenges all of usgender-nonconforming and cisgender, trans and gender-conforming, individuals and organizationsto ask ourselves why and how we are using sex classifications, what harm they might be doing, and just how theyre even defining & sex. A provocative and compelling book. -- Joshua Gamson,author of Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to KinshipIn a lively and accessible style, Davis questions the administrative and social practices of labeling individuals sex or gender solely in correspondence with the binary categories of female or male. He challenges the validity of sex-identifying documents and sex-segregated facilities or institutionseven competitive sportsas solutions to privacy, safety, or equality. This is a thought-provoking and highly relevant subject, perfect for todays political and cultural debates. -- Jamison Green,author of Becoming a Visible ManWhyand whenis it important to say whether somebody is a man or a woman? Those are the provocative questions Heath Fogg Davis poses in this informative exploration of gender markers . . . But even more provocative are the questions of how we determine what counts as & man and & woman in the first place, and why we imagine there can be only two genders. This is a great book for students and specialists alike who are interested in the profound transformation of gender we are all experiencing in the early twenty-first century. -- Susan Stryker,co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and author of Transgender HistoryIn another major book about our current gender moment,Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?Heath Fogg Davis, a professor of political science at Temple University and a transgender man, makes the argument that the modern trans rights movement shouldnt be so heavily invested in integrating trans and gender-nonconforming people into our existing gendered institutions. Instead, Davis suggests, we should use the so-called & transgender tipping point to explode our bureaucratic definitions of gender altogether. * BuzzFeed News *In this important and original book, Davis argues that most bureaucracies should get out of the business of administering sex by classifying people as Female or Male. Drawing on a number of case studies, including identity documents, bathroom bills, college admissions, and sex-testing for athletes, Davis shows most policies for sex classification are not rationally related to legitimate government interests. Drawing on a range of literatures and methods, including critical race scholarship, feminist theory, auto-ethnography, and doctrinal legal analysis, Beyond Trans is applied political theory at its best. -- Paisley Currah,co-editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies QuarterlyThis highly recommended work offers clear, real-world discussions of issues facing transgender people, along with practical applications and solutions. * Starred Library Journal *Davis challenges readers to consider why binary sex identity categories are used so pervasively in our everyday lives, and whether such routine categorization is needed . . . The author, a transgender man of color, approaches this topic as both an expert scholar and an individual whose own identity has been subject to hostile scrutiny * Starred Publishers Weekly *Davis argues that current precedent that restricts discriminating against people on the basis of gender could be used to challenge laws or practices that discriminate against people perceived as falling outside the gender binary. More broadly, we can all work toward a change in perspective. Demanding that people conform to stereotypes of masculinity or femininity does everybody harm. So instead of trying to fit more people into societys preexisting categories, we might try rethinking whether we need those categories at all. * Quartz.com *[R]efreshing.Davis situates the struggle for transgender dignity and rights squarely within the larger framework of personal freedom and privacy concerns, and shows how removing institutional barriers to living beyond the gender binary can help everyone live fuller, freer lives. * Reason Magazine *Daviss solution-orientedBeyond Transis a necessary voice in current debates about the administration of sex and transgender identity. From the infamous bathroom bills to cis citizens objection to financing the medical expenses of trans military personnel (the specter of which Donald Trump backhandedly invoked during his transgender ban tweets), to womens colleges determining that sex-segregation and defining the boundaries of womanhood were necessary to a feminist project of education, Daviss book offers applicable solutions and applies the knowledge gained from the positionality of trans, intersex, and non-binary viewpoints. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Reading Beyond Transis like having ones window shades thrown open after arising from a long night of sleep: the sunlight burns the eyes, but it awakens them . . .Beyond Transfeatures accessible, clear prose and direct argumentation. Anyone with an interest in trans rights and the public application of gender theory would benefit from Davis book.Beyond Transis as much a call to remediate the harm done to trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming individuals as it is a plea for good reasoning. * Popmatters.com *Davis's book is the quintessential transgender issue primer. * Plentitude Magazine *Arefreshingly intersectional perspective on sex identity. . .takes a perhaps seemingly singular topic and makes it approachable through passionate and relevant analysis of modern issues. Davis time and again shows the importance of understanding transgender rights as a matter of all rights, and does so in a challenging, memorable, and accessible way. * Foreword Reviews *Davis constantly challenges the value of forcing people to adhere to a binary, successfully arguing that the problems far outweigh the benefits. * BUST.com *Readers may not agree with all of Davis's conclusions, but his method of discerning rational relationships provides a helpful way to create conversations about whether a particular instance of sex segregation is legitimate or problematic. It encourages us to become far more reflective about when and why we believe sex needs to be marked and managed. * Christian Century *

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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 ReviewThis 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 SenatorBanned 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 LawBanned 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, DavisWhen 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 SchoolchildrenShoba 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 FutureFrom 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 *This book should not only resonate with migration scholars, lawyers, and policymakers, but also with a broader public audience who feel anxious and emboldened in these exponentially terrifying times. * Border Criminologies *

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Book SynopsisA controversial argument for reconsidering the limits of free speech Swirling in the midst of the resurgence of neo-Nazi demonstrations, hate speech, and acts of domestic terrorism are uncomfortable questions about the limits of free speech. The United States stands apart from many other countries in that citizens have the power to say virtually anything without legal repercussions. But, in the case of white supremacy, does the First Amendment demand that we defend Nazis? In Must We Defend Nazis?, legal experts Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic argue that it should not. Updated to consider the white supremacy demonstrations and counter-protests in Charlottesville and debates about hate speech on campus and on the internet, the book offers a concise argument against total, unchecked freedom of speech. Delgado and Stefancic instead call for a system of free speech that takes into account the harms that hate speech can inflict upon disempowered, marginalized people. They examine the prevTrade Review"The motives and theories behind outlawing hate speech are made clearest by the updated version of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic's Must We Defend Nazi's?." -- Claremont Review of Books

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Book SynopsisThe narratives of slaves, wives, and servants who resisted social and domestic violence in the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, Peter Wheeler, a slave to Gideon Morehouse in New York, protested, Master, I won't stand this, after Morehouse beat Wheeler's hands with a whip. Wheeler ran for safety, but Morehouse followed him with a shotgun and fired several times. Wheeler sought help from people in the town, but his eventual escape from slavery was the only way to fully secure his safety. Everyday Crimes tells the story of legally and socially dependent people like Wheelerfree and enslaved African Americans, married white women, and servantswho resisted violence in Massachusetts and New York despite lacking formal protection through the legal system. These dependents found ways to fight back against their abusers through various resistance strategies. Individuals made it clear that they wouldn't stand the abuse. Developing relationships with neighbors and justices of theTrade Review"Everyday Crimes is a must-read for any undergraduate or graduate course on US history, especially with a focus on race or gender." * H-Net Reviews *"Everyday Crimes challenges our assumptions about the origins of American civil rights and humanitarian movements, arguing that the nascent foundation of these resistance efforts began long before the mid-nineteenth century. . . . One of the most appealing and impressive facets of Ryan’s work is its methodological approach, namely her intersectional framework of analysis. Situating her study around the concepts of human and civil rights likewise raises the stakes of her contentions about the effects resistance had on influencing changes to the law and the social order. Ryan’s important work draws much needed attention to the ways in which these early forms of resistance to violence implemented and organized by society’s most vulnerable members shaped both the law and early Americans’ views of who the law ought to protect." * New England Quarterly *"Kelly Ryan’s Everyday Crimes provides perhaps the most in-depth study to date of violence against legally-dependent people in early America. . . . Ryan has produced an important work that both breaks new conceptual ground and provides valuable narrative evidence on the everyday lives of the downtrodden and ignored in early New York and Massachusetts. By combining detailed narrative with ambitious argument and careful attention to change over time, Everyday Crimes is an essential read for students of social history of the colonial and early national period as well as legal scholars and those interested in disenfranchised groups in early American history." * Civil War Book Review *"Everyday Crimes is an ambitious and provocative contribution to the histories of violence, law, and gender in early America. Ryan shows how individual lives were plotted along multiple axes of dependence, leaving legally dependent men, women, and children vulnerable to physical violence, judicial inaction, and public indifference. They resisted when and how they could, slowly redefining their place in the “social economy of violence” [...] Everyday Crimes is a rich and interesting work, and one that is sure to inspire future studies." * Journal of the Early Republic *"Ryan’s ability to connect the societal norms, English common law, and history is done in a way that engages the reader and provides a perspective on history that is often overlooked. This book is highly recommended for a diverse audience to include history enthusiasts, sociologists that study class relationships, sociologists that focus on civil rights for women, and early America criminologists. This book can be utilized as a supplemental textbook for a graduate class that would focus on society’s relationship with social norms and the early formation of the criminal justice system." * Criminal Justice Review *"Ryan has gathered a remarkable archive of legal records from New York and Massachusetts, supplemented by print literature, diaries, and letters of people seeking relief from abuse ... Everyday Crimes offers a revelatory complement to our understanding of how human rights discourse emerged in early America." * Early American Literature *

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Book SynopsisHow to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen's argument develops on two levels: as a textual analysis of black historical fiction, and as a critical examination of the reading practices that characterize the scholarship of our time. Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and feminist and queer theory, Levy-Hussen examines how works by Toni Morrison, David Bradley, Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, and others represent and mediate social injury and collective grief. In the criticism that surrounds these novels, she identifies two major interpretive approaches: therapeutic reading (premised on the assurance that literary confrontations with historical trauma will enable psychic healing in the present), and prohibitive reading (anchored iTrade Review"How to Read African American Literatureis a distinctive, richly-argued book about the political implications of contemporary readings of slavery in African American historical fiction. Graceful and sophisticated, it utilizes critical paradigms ranging from psychoanalysis to queer theory, and provides cutting-edge theories on the reading and writing of African American literary history. A bold and innovative book,How To Read African American Literaturemakes a case for a hermeneutics by which we can make sense of how contemporary narratives of slavery are being consumed today." -- Gene Jarrett,author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature"Beautifully-written and insightful,How to Read African American Literaturereinvigorates black feminist critique andqueer literary studies. AidaLevy-Hussens vision of the field of African Americanist literary criticism and its problems is startlingly lucid, precise, and attentive to the nuances of its various texts both fictive and scholarly. A model of critical writing, and of how to read." -- Darieck Scott,author of Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary"Throughout How to Read African American Literature, [Levy-Hussen] performs critical maneuvers that support more expansive interpretations, including reversals or counters in which she occupies the other position to resist fixity and to acknowledge foremost the role of desire in relation to the past[Levy-Hussens] critical enterprise liberates African American literature from perpetuating impositions and entrenched paths by raising questions and modeling strategies that will lead the field forward in promising new directions." * MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States *

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Book SynopsisA controversial argument for reconsidering the limits of free speech Swirling in the midst of the resurgence of neo-Nazi demonstrations, hate speech, and acts of domestic terrorism are uncomfortable questions about the limits of free speech. The United States stands apart from many other countries in that citizens have the power to say virtually anything without legal repercussions. But, in the case of white supremacy, does the First Amendment demand that we defend Nazis? In Must We Defend Nazis?, legal experts Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic argue that it should not. Updated to consider the white supremacy demonstrations and counter-protests in Charlottesville and debates about hate speech on campus and on the internet, the book offers a concise argument against total, unchecked freedom of speech. Delgado and Stefancic instead call for a system of free speech that takes into account the harms that hate speech can inflict upon disempowered, marginalized people. They examine the prevTrade ReviewThe motives and theories behind outlawing hate speech are made clearest by the updated version of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic's Must We Defend Nazi's?. -- Claremont Review of Books

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"How to Read African American Literatureis a distinctive, richly-argued book about the political implications of contemporary readings of slavery in African American historical fiction. Graceful and sophisticated, it utilizes critical paradigms ranging from psychoanalysis to queer theory, and provides cutting-edge theories on the reading and writing of African American literary history. A bold and innovative book,How To Read African American Literaturemakes a case for a hermeneutics by which we can make sense of how contemporary narratives of slavery are being consumed today." -- Gene Jarrett,author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature"Beautifully-written and insightful,How to Read African American Literaturereinvigorates black feminist critique andqueer literary studies. AidaLevy-Hussens vision of the field of African Americanist literary criticism and its problems is startlingly lucid, precise, and attentive to the nuances of its various texts both fictive and scholarly. A model of critical writing, and of how to read." -- Darieck Scott,author of Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary"Throughout How to Read African American Literature, [Levy-Hussen] performs critical maneuvers that support more expansive interpretations, including reversals or counters in which she occupies the other position to resist fixity and to acknowledge foremost the role of desire in relation to the past[Levy-Hussens] critical enterprise liberates African American literature from perpetuating impositions and entrenched paths by raising questions and modeling strategies that will lead the field forward in promising new directions." * MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States *

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Book SynopsisThe Sleeping Giant Awakens considers how residential school Survivors and other Indigenous peoples, settlers, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada approached the question of genocide in the Indian Residential Schools system. It assesses prospects for conciliation in the aftermath of genocide.Trade Review“In addition to residential school survivor memoirs, the superb The Sleeping Giant Awakens should be mandatory reading for all Canadians.” -- Jane Griffith * Ontario History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Understanding Genocide: Raphael Lemkin, the UN Genocide Convention, and International Law 2. Pluralists, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonial Genocide 3. Forcible Transfer as Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools 4. The Sixties and Seventies Scoop and the Genocide Convention 5. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the Question of Genocide 6. The TRC, Indigenous Death, Inside and Outside the Residential Schools 7. Indigenous Genocide: Remembering, Commemorating, Forgetting 8. Indigenous Peoples and Genocide: Challenges of Recognition and Remembering 9. Reconciliation, Resurgence, and Rollback in the Aftermath of Genocide

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Book SynopsisBringing a new dimension to the literature on educationalization, this book is grounded in historical research, curricular analysis, and philosophical reflection.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Problematizing 'Educationalization' Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Queen’s University Part One: Contesting Views of Processes of Educationalization at the Intersection with Christianity 1. The Dignity of Protestant Souls: Protestant Trajectories in the Educationalization of the World Daniel Tröhler, University of Vienna 2. Multiple Early Modernities and "Educationalization": Reframing the Confessional Debate on Education, Politics and Religion in Early Modern Europe Carlos Martínez Valle, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 3. Catholicism and "Educationalization" Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Queen’s University 4. Antigonish, or an "Education that is not Educationalization" Adam Josh Cole, Queen’s University Part Two: Catholicism, Spirituality, and Educationalization 5. Educationalization of the Modern World: The Case of the Loretto Sisters in British North America Elizabeth Smyth, University of Toronto 6. Women Religious’ New Educational Approaches in the Global South, 1968-80 Heidi MacDonald, University of New Brunswick 7. The Educationalization Process and the Roman Catholic Church in North America during the Long Nineteenth Century Joseph Stafford, Queen’s University 8. The Educationalization in the Spanish Second Republic and the Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain in 1932 Jon Igelmo Zaldívar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 9. Waldorf Education and the Educationalization of Spirituality in the Plural Context in Late Twentieth-century Spain Patricia Quiroga Uceda, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Part Three: Educationalization and the Right to Education/Schooling 10. Educationalization, Schooling, and the Right to Education Felicitas Acosta, Universidad General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina Part Four: Educationalization and Democratic Spaces in the Digital Era 11. Educationalization as Technologization William Pinar, University of British Columbia 12. Countering Patterns of Educationalization: Creating Digital Tools for Critical Evidence-based Thinking Ana Jofré, SUNY Polytechnic, Utica Part Five: Educationalization as a Tool of Colonization and its Counter-dimension in Indigenous Educational Agendas: Limits and Possibilities 13. Educationalization in Canada: The Use of Native Teacher Education as a Tool of Decoloniality Bonita Uzoruo, Queen’s University 14. Indigeneity and Educationalization Chris Beeman, Brandon University 15. Capuchin Missions in Mapuche Territory: The Education of an Original People in Chile from 1880 to 1930 Sol Serrano, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Macarena Ponce de León, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Concluding Analysis: Turning the Problem on its Head: Looking to New Critical Directions Adam Josh Cole, Queen’s University and Ian McKay, McMaster University List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIf your relationship needs less oy and more joy, this is the book for you!Trade Review"If you are intermarried, have a family member or friend who is, or are interested in how intermarriage affects Jewish communities, this book has something to offer to you. The author’s optimism, good humour, and belief in each person’s capacity to find fulfillment will charm any reader willing to approach its important subject with an open mind." -- David Roytenberg * Canadian Jewish Record *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments  Introduction  A Acceptance  Action  Adam and Eve  Aggravation  Antisemitism  Assertiveness  A$$holes  Assimilation  Attentiveness  Attitude  B  B’shert  Backgrounds  Beauty  Belief, Behavior, Belonging (bonus: B. Mitzvah)   Bible  Blending  Borrowing  Bridges  C  Calm  Camp  Children (and bonus “C”—circumcision)   Communication/Chrismukkah Community  Compromise  Conversion  Cost  Creativity  Culture  D  Daily Life (tasks, what you want daily life to look like)  Dancing  Daring  Death  Definition  Destiny  Divorce  DIY  Dogma  Dreams  E  Eagerness  Eats  Education  Elation  Elevation  Emotion  Emotional Load  Energy/Excitement  Equality/Equity  The Everyday  F  Feelings/Fear  Fellowship  Festive Season  Fidelity  Forgiveness  Frankness  Freedom  Friendship  Fun  Future Planning  G  Garbage  Gefilte Fish  Giving  God  Goodness  Google  Grandchildren  Grief  Grudges/Grievances  Guilt  H  Happiness  Healing  Hearing  Helping  Holidays  Honoring  Hope  Hostility  Hosting  Hurting  I Ignorant  Important  Inclusivity/Inclusion (featuring InterfaithFamily.com)   Indivisibility  Industriousness  Insistence  Intensity  Invitations  Irritation  Isolation  J  Jazz  Jealousy  Jerks  Jesus  Jokes  Journey  Joy  Judaism/Jewishness  Juggling  Justice  K  Kaleidoscope  Kaput  Karma  Keva/kavannah  Kids  Kindness  Kings  Klunkiness  Knowledge  Kosher  L  Lean In  Learning  Legalities  Listening  Literature  Losing It  Loss and Letting Go  Love  Luggage  M  Marriage  Meaning  Mentsch  Mindfulness  Mistakes/Messes  Mixed  Moments  Money  Moses  Mystery  N  Nag  Nationhood  Needs versus Wants  Negativity/Naysaying  Negotiation  Never Say Never  No Nos  Nope   “Normal” Nuptials  O  Officiating  Ok  Openness  Opportunity  Oppression  Optimism  Ordained  Originality  Oscillation  Oxygen  P  Pandering  Parenting  Parents  Partnership  Passion  Paternalism  Patrilineal Descent  Poetry  Possibility  Principles  Q  Quagmires and Quandaries  Quality  Quantity  Quarrelling  Queer  Questioning  Quicksand  Quid Pro Quo  Quirks  Quotable  R  Reaching Out  Realism  Reason(ableness)  Reconnection  Relatives  Relativity  Renewal  Resilience  Respect  Rules  S  Sensitivity  Serendipity/Syncronicity  Sex/Sweetness/Softness  Sharing  Shavuot  Shopping - Stuff  Shopping - Synagogues  Silliness  Stifled  Struggling  T  Talk Therapy  Talmud  Teaching  Terminology  The Attic  Tikkun Olam  Tradition  Truth  Turtle Island  Tzedakah  U  Ugliness  Undercutting  Understanding  Unity  Universality  Unlearning  Unorthodox  Unpopular  Urgency  Utopia  V  Vacations  Values  Vantage Point/Viewpoint  Variability  Veils  Venting/Ventilation  Vicious Circles  Victories  Visibility  Vision  W  Wake up Calls  Wandering  Weddings  White Dresses  Whiteness  Wisdom  Wishlists  Wokeness  Wondering  Worldliness  X/Y  X Marks the Spot  Xenophobia  X-factor  Xmas  X-rays  Yearning  Yelling  Yiddish  Yom Kippur  You  Z  Zamboni  Zany  Zealous  Zero Tolerance  Zigzag (rhizome)  Zipper (seam)  Zodiac  Zone  Zoom  Zygote  Appendix: December Delights: Creating and Crushing Chrismukkah Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOffering a new conception of the right to health care as a complex but morally justifiable and realistically achievable right, this book helps resolve persistent problems with the idea of health rights.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Health Rights: The Phenomenon and the Problem The Existing Literature The Current Project Part I: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Right to Health Care Chapter 2: Health Rights: A Taxonomy Introduction Rights and Duties A Brief Taxonomy of Health Rights (and Health Rights Projects) The Present Project’s Place in the Taxonomy Problems Facing Existing Health Rights Conclusion Chapter 3: The Case for a Pluralist Conception of the Right to Health Care Introduction A Pluralist Model is Necessary to Account for the Right’s Uncontroversial Features (a) The Goods Necessary for a Dignified Existence Jointly Constitute a Necessary Component of the Right to Health Care (b) The Goods Necessary for a Dignified Existence Alone Do Not Capture All That Should Be Under the Right to Health Care (c) Procedural Fairness in Health Care Allocation is a Necessary Component of the Right to Health Care (d) Procedural Fairness Alone Does Not Capture All That Should Be Under the Right to Health Care (e) A Functioning Health Care System is a Necessary Component of the Right to Health Care (f) A Functioning Health Care System Alone Does Not Capture All That Should Be Under the Right to Health Care The Pluralist Model Has Further Advantages The Pluralist Model Can Withstand (Other) Serious Criticisms One May Raise Against It (a) Objection 1: The Minimum Floor Remains Subject to Problems Plaguing Any Attempt at Specifying Content (b) Objection 2: The Pluralist Model Cannot Identify a Traditional Right (c) Objection 3: Dignity Cannot Form the Basis of a Justiciable Right (d) Objection 4: Health Outcomes Should Be Primary (e) Objection 5: Applying Constitutional Standards is Preferable Conclusion Chapter 4: The Pluralist Right to Health Care and International Human Rights Law Introduction Methodology The Core Components of the International Right to Health Reflect Concerns with Each Element of the Pluralist Right to Health Care and Instantiate the Pluralist Right (a) Universal Access to Health Care (b) Prioritization of Certain Goods and Peoples (c) Progressive Realization of Other Aspects of the Right (d) Modes of Domestic Implementation (e) Remedies (f) Improved Health Outcomes Conclusion Appendix 1: A (Non-Exhaustive) List of Key Sources for Identifying the International Right to Health Care Chapter 5: Metrics for Realization of the Right to Health Care Introduction International Law and Empirical Metrics Metrics for Right to Health Care Realization (A) Health Care System/Policy Markers (B) Self-Defined Benchmarks and Indicators (C) Coverage of and Access to Essential Goods (D) Daniels and Sabin’s Fairness Markers (E) Rates of Access to the Goods Selected in the Process from (d) (F) Progressive Realization Dual Application of the Metrics Putting the Metrics to Work Objections and Replies (a) Objection 1: These Metrics Do Not Easily Map onto the Components of the Pluralist Right (b) Objection 2: No State Can or Should Be Expected to Score Well on All These Metrics (c) Objection 3: These Metrics Break with An Important Development in International Law (d) Objection 4: These Metrics Ignore the Perspective of Rights Holders Conclusion Appendix 2: Metrics for Comparative Analysis of Right to Health Care Implementation Part II: The Right to Health Care in Canada: A Case Study in Realization Chapter 6: The Mainstream Canadian Health Care System and the Pluralist Right to Health Care Introduction An Introduction to the Canadian Health Care System The Mainstream Canadian Health Care System Does Not Ensure Access to Many Goods Necessary for a Dignified Existence The Mainstream Canadian Health Care System Fulfills Some, But Not All, Aspects of Accountability for Reasonableness The Mainstream Canadian Health Care System Does Not Have All the Systemic Elements Demanded by the Pluralist Right to Health Care Canada’s Progressive Realization of the Right is Difficult to Assess and Substantive Progress Appears Minimal Conclusion Chapter 7: Vulnerable Populations in Canada and the Pluralist Right to Health Care Introduction An Introduction to Two Vulnerable Population-Specific Programs: The IFHP and the NIHBP The IFHP and NIHBP Fill Some Gaps in Essential Goods Coverage for Some Persons, but Barriers to Access Remain The IFHP and NIHBP Do Not Fulfill All Procedural Demands of the Pluralist Right to Health Care The IFHP and NIHBP Help Fill in Some Gaps in Canada’s Realization of the Systemic Component of the Pluralist Right to Health Care The NIHBP is Gradually Progressively Realizing the Right The IFHP Required Multiple Interventions to Avoid Serious Deliberate Retrogression in Right to Health Care Realization Conclusion Chapter 8: Tools for Better Realizing the Pluralist Right to Health Care in Canada Introduction Three Branches of Canadian Public Law (a) Constitutional Law (b) Human Rights Law (c) Non-Human Rights-Based Administrative Law Possible Legal Paths Forward (a) Constitutional Law (b) Human Rights Law (b) Non-Human Rights-Based Administrative Law Conclusion Conclusion: Next Steps Chapter 9: Concluding Thoughts and the Path(s) Forward Introduction Summary Directions for Future Research

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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 SynopsisConfronting the truths of Canada’s Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada’s past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starting with a discussion of how genocide is defined in domestic and international law, the book applies the concept to the forced transfer of Indigenous children to residential schools and the Sixties Scoop, in which Indigenous children were taken from their communities and placed in foster homes or adopted. Based on archival research, extensive interviews with residential school Survivors, and officials at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, among others, The Sleeping Giant Awakens offers a unique and timely perspective on the prospects for conciliation after genocide, exploring the difficulties in moving forward in a context where manTrade Review“In addition to residential school survivor memoirs, the superb The Sleeping Giant Awakens should be mandatory reading for all Canadians.” -- Jane Griffith * Ontario History *"MacDonald’s argument that the harms of forcible transfer are genocidal is compelling and well made. As he also acknowledges, however, the settler state cannot resolve or fully address these harms unless it is prepared to enter into a new relationship with First Nations on profoundly different terms." -- Sarah Maddison * The British Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Understanding Genocide: Raphael Lemkin, the UN Genocide Convention, and International Law 2. Pluralists, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonial Genocide 3. Forcible Transfer as Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools 4. The Sixties and Seventies Scoop and the Genocide Convention 5. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the Question of Genocide 6. The TRC, Indigenous Death, Inside and Outside the Residential Schools 7. Indigenous Genocide: Remembering, Commemorating, Forgetting 8. Indigenous Peoples and Genocide: Challenges of Recognition and Remembering 9. Reconciliation, Resurgence, and Rollback in the Aftermath of Genocide

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Book SynopsisIn The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s concrete subjectivity. Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of René Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, and John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical Trade Review‘This volume is a valuable resource for any scholar interested in the desire for self-transcendence and the natural desire for God.’ -- J.M. Meinert * Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018 *"Rosenberg has achieved something rare: a genuine and sympathetic conversation among neo-Scholastics, Lonergan, Girard, and la nouvelle théologie. The result is a valuable and immensely stimulating book, funded by terrific insight, for a theologically sophisticated readership." -- Jeremy D. Wilkins * Horizons: The Journal of the College of Theological Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DE LUBAC, RESSOURCEMENT, AND NEO-THOMISM CHAPTER 1: De Lubac’s Lament: Loss of the Supernatural CHAPTER 2: Ressourcement and Neo-Thomism: A Narrative under Scrutiny, A Dialogue Renewed PART TWO: A LONERGAN RETRIEVAL: PURE NATURE TO CONCRETE SUBJECT CHAPTER 3: The Erotic Roots of Intellectual Desire CHAPTER 4: Concretely-Operating Nature: Lonergan on the Natural Desire to See God CHAPTER 5: Being-in-Love and the Desire for the Supernatural: Erotic-Agapic Subjectivity PART III: MIMETIC DESIRE, MODELS OF HOLINESS, AND THE LOVE OF DEVIATED TRANSCENDENCE CHAPTER 6: Incarnate Meaning and Mimetic Desire: Saints and the Desire for God CHAPTER 7: The Metaphysics of Holiness and the Longing for God in History: Thérèse of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum CHAPTER 8: Distorted Desire and the Love of Deviated Transcendence CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisFor millions of Catholic believers, pilgrimage has offered possible answers to the mysteries of sickness, life, and death. The Persistence of the Sacred explores the religious worldviews of Europeans who travelled to Trier and Aachen, two cities in Western Germany, to view the sacred relics in their cathedrals. The Persistence of the Sacred challenges the narrative of widespread secularization in Europe during the long nineteenth century and reveals that religious practices thrived well into the modern period. It shows both that men were more active in their faith than historians have realized and how clergy and pilgrims did not always agree about the meaning of relics. Drawing on private ephemeral and material sources including films, photographs, postcards, correspondence, and souvenirs, Skye Doney uncovers the enduring and diverse sacred worldview of German Catholics and argues that laity and clergy had very different perspectives on the meaning of pilgrimageTrade Review“An eminently readable and very fruitful study.” -- Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri * Catholic Historical Review *“The work offers readers new, engaging ways of thinking about German Catholicism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and provides a glimpse into the world of everyday German Catholics and their attempts to navigate the practice of their religious faith in the modern world.” -- Beth Griech-Polelle, Pacific Lutheran University * German Studies Review *“Offering a tightly bounded history of Catholic pilgrimages to Trier and Aachen, Skye Doney has ably foregrounded how Catholicism in Germany, both as an institutional religion and as a mass movement of millions, sought to straddle faith and empirically-based science.” -- Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Flinders University * Journal of Religious History *Table of ContentsArchive Abbreviations Acknowledgments Select Dates in German Catholicism: 1813–1939 Introduction 1. What They Practiced: Prayer, Songs, and Processions 2. Modern Miracles 3. The Sacred Economy 4. Rending Religiosity: Johannes Ronge and the 1840s Trier Controversy 5. Clerical Crossroads: Medical Verifiability of the Sacred 6. Historical Authenticity as Presence Conclusion: Verifying Presence Appendix 1: Selected Pilgrim Songs in Translation, 1839–1933 Appendix 2: Daily Pilgrim Totals in 1891 Appendix 3: Daily Pilgrim Totals in 1933 Appendix 4: Holy Coat Songs in Trier Hymnal, 1846–1955 Appendix 5: Pilgrimage Dates Appendix 6: 1933 Trier Pilgrimage Sick Pilgrim Complaints Appendix 7: 1867 Aachen Closing Ceremony Procession Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe citizen, a figure capable of self-government is both the political and the personal sense, is a central and enduring theme of political thought. The role of the citizen in the modern state was question raised persistently by French political theorists from Rousseau on, as they sought new principles of legitimacy to replace those of the ancient regime. Richard Vernon’s studies in this volume examine a series of moments in French political thought when the possibility and meaning of citizenship were called into question.Vernon considers the view held by Rousseau and later Durkheim that citizenship was sustained immediately by moral principles, a view that was criticized by others who refused any such identification of political and moral order. Vernon shows how this refusal governs, in different ways, the political thinking of theorists as diverse as Maistre, Proudhon, Tocqueville, Comte, Sorel, and Bergson. He explains why the idea of citizenship in its political se

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Book SynopsisCanada has been giving foreign aid now for about fifteen years, and this book is the first to show what Canada has done in this new area of international diplomacy. Several projects—Warzak Dam, St. Vincent Dock, Canada-India Reactor, Nigerian Air Survey, Maple Leaf Cement Plant—are recounted in detail, from the practical administrative point of view. The various forms and methods of aid adopted by Canada are described. But the author’s main concern is policy. In the first chapter he asses the more popular theories of aid and finds them more or less superficial. Aid is inescapably political in context and the author pleads for increasing understanding and sophistication in choosing its objectives, methods, and recipients. A national aid policy should be part of over-all foreign policy (the author recommends therefore a cabinet committee on external relations) and should be executed and reviewed by a corps of “aid diplomats” (hence a recommendation f

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Book SynopsisTells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mexico City in 1968, a year of dramatic upheaval around the world. Racial tensions were high on the US Olympic team, where inflamed black athletes had to choose between demands for justice, on the one hand, and loyalty to country, on the other.Trade Review“Richard Hoffer reminds us why sports matter, deftly returning to the roiling 1968 Olympics, when it was the athlete who often stood at the forefront of social change. . . . Something in the Air reconnects sports to America, as it should be. It is a truly terrific book.”—Howard Bryant, ESPN senior writer and author of Juicing the Game“Richard Hoffer has given us a wonderful cross-section of characters and a thorough portrayal of the controversial events surrounding the 1968 Olympics, so that we learn to appreciate these Mexico City Games in a way we never did before. It’s sports history at both its finest and most fun.”—Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated senior contributing writer“Suddenly, as if picked up by some gust, you’re hurtled into the political, cultural, and athletic tempest of 1968, and into the hearts and minds of the American Olympians in its swirl. That gust is Richard Hoffer’s exhilarating prose. Just go with the wind.”—Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated senior writer“[Hoffer’s] jaunty but disciplined prose puts the wind at the reader’s back and shows us how the leaps, lifts and dashes of 1968 made a significant impact on the civil rights movement and raised the political consciousness of athletes.”—Gordon Marino, New York TimesTable of Contents1. Roads to Glory - Dogs on Ice, a Third-String End, and Robin Hood2. 1968 - Tanks on the Streets, Dead on a Balcony, and Audie Murphy3. Speed City - Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, "Tutti Frutti," and Jack Daniels4. Countdown to Mexico - Lymphocytes, Zip Guns, and ROTC5. Boycott - Hells Angels, a Petrified Pig, and More Ralph Henry Barbour6. A Desperate Innovation - Rolls, Straddles, and an Airborne Seizure7. The Trials - Spondylolisthesis, Brush Spikes, and a Brutal Stomping8. Denver - The Anarchists' Convention, a Vote for Nixon, and a Cold Chill9. Mexico City - Thin Air, Fresh Paint, and Shots in the Night10. Opening Ceremony - Flag Dipping, a Family Feud, and 6,300 Pigeons11. And They're Off - A Grisly Tableau, Pinochle, and a Guided Missile Launch12. Protest - Licorice Hammers, Tommie Jets, and Black Gloves13. Harder and Higher - The Little Stinker, Beauty and the Beast, and Hollywood Agents14. Aftershocks - Pimped-Out Socks, a Mutation Performance, and Sparks Under His Feet15. Monday - A Grunion Hunt, a Crying Tigerbelle, and a Jig for Joy16. Week Two - A Cuddlesome Junior, a Ragtag Bunch, and a Blonde in a Beehive17. Pappy's Boys - Rateros, Various Sarges, and a Lucky Picture of a Pretty Girl18. Going Home - Boy Scouts, Psychedelic Mileage, and a Black BraAfterword AcknowledgmentsNotes on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisLongtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the“why” of his fishing identity before more recently becoming focused on the “how” of it. He realized he was a dedicated fly fisherman in large part because public lands and public waterways in the West made it possible.In Wilderness of Hope Grover recounts his fly-fishing experiences with a strong evocation of place, connecting those experiences to the ongoing national debate over public lands. Because so much of America’s public lands are in the Intermountain West, this is where arguments about the use and limits of those lands rage the loudest.And those loudest in the debate often become caricatures: rural ranchers who hate the government; West Coast elites who don’t know the West outside Vail, Colorado; and energy and mining companies who extract from once-protected areas. These caricatures obscure the complexity of those who use public lands and what those lands mean to a wTrade Review"An admirable perspective, Grover should be commended for his clearheaded and thoughtful essays on public lands and fly fishing."—Jen Corrinne Brown, New Mexico Historical Review"Grover's stories commonly fold back to his youth in Utah and beyond, where remembering, for example, his grandfather's cabin on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, underscores how, 'Public lands tie the various versions of America together through our joint ownership, because public lands belong in public hands, not with private enterprise.'"—Glen Young, Split Rock Review"This thoughtful book investigates the relationships between recreationists, landowners, and the government, and how each entity relates to the overall outdoor experience. With Grover’s years of experience as a fisherman used as a jumping-off point, this book is a meditation on how interactions with the wild stay with people as they go about their lives in the modern world."—Erin H. Turner, Big Sky Journal"Wilderness of Hope reminds me that in this moment of current madness some things still have a chance to turn out alright. That is, if we pay attention and act accordingly."—Robert DeMott, Bulletin of the Anglers’ Club of New York“Wilderness of Hope joins a long tradition of books—including The River Why and A River Runs through It—which remind us all that, of the many possible paths toward understanding the universe, few are as reliable as fly fishing. Quinn Grover makes a strong case for passion as the key ingredient of a meaningful life, but also for knowing how the planet might make best use of us.”—Brooke Williams, author of Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet “Quinn Grover’s Wilderness of Hope provides a life compass for those of us who pursue wild and native trout on our public lands and waters. He preserves our capacity for wonder by weaving together the fabric of family and fishing friends, wilderness, and the importance of preserving and protecting our public lands and resources for future generations.”—Craig Mathews, author of The Yellowstone Fly-Fishing Guide “On his first trip out, Quinn Grover lands a whopper! There’s a casting and reeling rhythm to his writing, long luxurious passages on nature’s elusive tributaries, then—zing!—thrilling bites of witty insight spilling into pools of reflection. He seems to have spawned a new genre, the Ichthysroman. In Grover’s own words, he’s a ‘middle-class man’ in love with places ‘worth knowing.’ I say he’s the high-class author of a book worth keeping. I’m hooked!”—Matthew James Babcock, author of Heterodoxologies “With meditations born from experience, Grover conveys the mystery and pull of the trout rivers that run through the American West. These essays make one want to pick up a fly rod, wade into the nearest swift water, and revel Thoreau- or Dillard-like in the wild atmospheres found there.”—Braden Hepner, author of Pale HarvestTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: First FishPart 1: ReassuranceFridaysWanderingKissing, Telling, and Invisible TroutLaid OffDriving ConversationsSolo The Case for InefficiencyHome WatersHiking ConversationsPart 2: ReflectionShort SeasonsThe Bank GrassThe GlimpseGoldenConversations with GrandpaFirst Good FishMistressA One-Sided Conversation with a Brown TroutThe Big VPart 3: RenewalThe Stump Ranch FishThe DarkDrakesWind, Rain, and SnowFuneralFear Fishing ConversationsFive Days in the WildernessPaige’s TroutEpilogue: The Shallow End of a Nameless LakeReferences

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Book Synopsis2022 High Plains Book Award Winner for First Book 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Culture 2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Environment/Ecology 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Regional Nonfiction 2022 Montaigne Medal Finalist 2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for History The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting American oil from the Bakken oil fields of the northern plains to markets nationwide, essential to both national security and prosperity. Native activists named it the “black snake,” referring to an ancient prophecy about a terrible snake that would one day devour the earth. Activists rallied near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota for months in opposition to DAPL, winning an unprecedented but temporary victory before the federal goverTrade Review"An important work of environmental and legal reportage on a contest that will likely continue for years."—Kirkus Reviews"In Black Snake, Todrys blends wide-ranging research with solid on-the-ground reporting to tell a compelling and important story—one whose full impact is yet to be felt."—David Conrads, Christian Science Monitor"All Americans who care about the fate of Native Americans and about clean water, clean air, and a non-toxic earth will find Todrys's book inspiring."—Jonah Raskin, New York Journal of Books"It can be easy to forget, after all that's happened since, that the demonstrations against DAPL at Standing Rock were less than five years ago. Human rights lawyer Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys takes an on-the-ground view of the events, building this study around interviews with four Native leaders of the activist movement. It’s a timely reminder of what resources still need protecting and the next generation of young people putting their lives on the line to do so."—Chicago Review of Books"Todrys's attention to activists' communities and relationships allows their story to flow clearly through the center of the book, delivering a reservoir of strategies and historical knowledge that will sustain future movements."—Heather Menefee, South Dakota History"Based on the stories and insights from LaDonna Allard, Jasilyn Charger, Lisa DeVille and Kandi White, Todrys paints a vivid portrait of daily life on the reservations and the protests against the broader backdrop of our nation's history exploiting Native peoples. . . . Her book gives a voice to those who have long been silenced or misunderstood as they fight not just for their lands but for the health of everyone who lives in this nation."—New City Lit"In Black Snake, Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys offers Americans of all races, classes, cultures, creeds, ethnic groups and genders the opportunity to look in the mirror and to see a reflection of where we have been as a nation and where we are going if we are to escape the poison of fossil fuel."—Jonah Raskin, Counter Punch“I’m so happy this book exists—it tells much of the backstory behind an absolutely epic environmental drama, and it highlights some of the remarkable women who led the fight. If you didn’t get a chance to join the encampment at Standing Rock, this account will put you there!”—Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?“Black Snake draws on firsthand interviews to tell an important history from the perspective of those who lived it. Thank you for this book.”—Madonna Thunder Hawk, Lakota civil rights activist“Todrys tells the story of the people in this fight, of their heartening advances and demoralizing setbacks, in a textured, personal way that brings to life their mistreatment and their inspiring response. This book is a dramatic illustration of how to stand up to powerful interests that are long used to simply casting aside the people in their way.”—Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights WatchTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Lisa 1. Oil Production in the Bakken 2. Pipelines and POWER on Fort Berthold Jasilyn 3. Origins of the Camp at Standing Rock 4. Seventh Generation Rising LaDonna 5. Militarization of the Response 6. Victory on the Heels of Violence Kandi 7. From Victory to Eviction 8. The Standing Rock Legacy Epilogue Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFeatures over one hundred of Florence Mars’ photographs, most taken in the decade between 1954 and 1964, almost all published here for the first time. While a few depict public events, most feature private moments, illuminating the separate and unequal worlds of black and white Mississippians in the final days of Jim Crow.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1966, more than ten years after the Supreme Court ended segregation in public schools, James Meredith describes his intense struggle to attend an all-white university and break down long-held race barriers in one of the most conservative states in America.

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Book SynopsisOffers an unrivalled account of how a rural Black community drew together to combat the immense forces aligned against them. Robert Hamburger first visited Fayette County as part of a student civil rights project in 1965 and, in 1971, set out to document the history of the grassroots movement there.

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Book SynopsisRecent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but David W. McIvor believes that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourningits relationship to private grief, its practices, and its pathologies and democratic possibilities.In Mourning in America, McIvor addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. McIvor offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, GreeTrade ReviewMcIvor weaves together Greek tragedies, ancient and modern political theory, and stories of truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) in South Africa and Greensboro, North Carolina, to argue for the importance of such commissions to American democracy.... The afterword links the democratic work of mourning to the fairly new Black Lives Matter movement, as well as to recent books by Claudia Rankine and Ta-Nehisi Coates, and would serve well as a stand-alone reading assignment on race and racism. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty. -- M. R. Michelson, Menlo College * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisOver the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In Fictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, and species membership. In the process, Anker examines the vital work performed by a particular kind of narrative imagination in fostering respect for human rights. Drawing on phenomenology, Anker suggests how an embodied politics of reading might restore a vital fleshiness to the overly abTrade ReviewFictions of Dignity is a distinctive contribution to the growing body of scholarship concerned with the relationship between human rights and novels. -- Emily Hogg * New Formations *In her analysis of 'the vocabulary of human rights,' Anker... interrogates the liberal/Enlightenment tradition that values the intellect over the body. She regards this preference, one that stretches from Plato to Descartes, as dismissive of corporeal and indigenous factors. Hence, imperialism emphasizes the 'barbarism' of the global south, patriarchy stresses the weakness of women's bodies to justify their suppression, society categorizes animals as unconscious ‘carnal being[s],’ and large political bodies ignore smaller interests in implementing justice. Anker discusses four works that engage these stances.... [Readers] will be intrigued and challenged by Anker's critique. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *The passion and commitment Anker shows in taking liberalism to task for its complicity in perpetrating the very atrocities its own human rights programmes seek to end is a vital one. * Interventions: Intl Jrnl of Postcol. Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Constructs by Which We Live1. Bodily Integrity and Its Exclusions2. Embodying Human Rights: Toward a Phenomenology of Social Justice3. Constituting the Liberal Subject of Rights: Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children4. Women’s Rights and the Lure of Self-Determination in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero5. J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: The Rights of Desire and the Embodied Lives of Animals6. Arundhati Roy’s "Return to the Things Themselves": Phenomenology and the Challenge of JusticeCoda: Small Places, Close to HomeNotes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisFor more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms in detail. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute economic value, preserve bodily integrity, and engage in meaningful daily practice have been blown apart. After the Georgian war with Russia in 2008, Dunn spent sixteen months immersed in the everyday lives of the 28,000 people placed in thirty-six resettlement camps by official and nongovernmental organizations acting in concert with the Georgian government. She reached the conclusion that the humanitarian condition poses a survival problem that is not only biological but also existential. In No Path Home, she paints a moving picture of the ways in which humanitarianism leaves displaced people in limbo, neither in a state of emergency nor able to act as noTrade ReviewA heart-wrenching, sophisticated, yet readable analysis of the experiences of Georgians internally displaced by the 2008 war with Russia.... [Dunn] unpacks with great nuance how forces of capitalist neoliberalism and Georgian and Russian authoritarianism have structured the humanitarian system along various bureaucratic, economic, and political axes that reward humanitarian action no matter how poorly it fits people’s needs. * Choice *Theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically engaged, No Path Home makes a timely and ethically rich intervention in to the politics of international humanitarianism. The book pushes anthropological discussions beyond their often-medicalized focus upon the politics of life to foreground crucially relevant humanistic concerns about the politics of living. The book makes for essential reading for those interested in the literature on humanitarianism and post-socialism but also subjectivity and existential anthropology more generally. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsNote on Place Names in the South Caucasus The Camp and the Camp 2. War Intertext 1 3. Chaos 4. Nothing Intertext 2 5. Pressure 6. The Devil and the Authoritarian State Intertext 3 7. Death Intertext 4 8. All That Remains Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy''s remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessionscolonies, protectorates, and provincesin Africa and the Balkans, the repatriation of Italian nationals from those territories, and the integration of these national refugees into a country devastated by war and overwhelmed by foreign displaced persons from Eastern Europe. Post-World War II Italy served as an important laboratory, in which categories differentiating foreign refugees (who had crossed national boundaries) from national refugees (those who presumably did not) were debated, refined, and consolidated. Such distinctions resonated far beyond that particular historical moment, informing legal frameworks that remain in place today. Offering an alternative genealogy of the postwar international refugee regime, Ballinger focuses on the consequences of one of its key omissions: the ineligibility from international refuTrade ReviewPamela Ballinger has authored a densely documented, conceptually strong, and beautifully written book that compellingly proves the point made by Peter Gatrell and others: Putting the histories of migration center-stage opens up new and productive vistas onto the nations and, indeed, the world refugees made. * H-Africa *While Ballinger's book hopefully encourages more research on this inner-Italian topic, it is already indispensable for the study of twentieth-century internationalism, the postwar refugee regime, and the beginnings of European decolonization. It brilliantly locates Italian decolonization in the context of the emerging postwar international order that redrew borders, redefined citizenship, and handled the global displaced-persons crisis. * American Historical Review *In her recent book, The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger offers a pathbreaking study of how the process of decolonization shaped and affected Italy after 1945. The methodological approaches and arguments developed in The World Refugees Made will certainly inspire a new generation of studies on postwar Europe and refugees. * Contemporanea *The World Refugees Made is a complex and fascinating work that demonstrates how necessary it is to analyze Italy's post–World War II reconstruction as an international and colonial/postcolonial history. It will be informative and intriguing to students and nonspecialists, and challenging and provocative to scholars of its relevant fields. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mobile Histories 1. Empire as Prelude 2. Wartime Repatriations and the Beginnings of Decolonization 3. Italy's Long Decolonization in the Era of Intergovernmentalism 4. Displaced Persons and the Borders of Citizenship 5. Reclaiming Facism, Housing the Nation Conclusion: "We Will Return"

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an excellent book on the shifts in the provision of food and nutrients in the global aid industry. On an Empty Stomach is both engaging and well written. The book makes us wiser, and deserves to be read by a wide audience. * Public Anthropologist *The exceptional range of material treated in this modern history, alongside Scott-Smith's unfailingly sharp analytical lens, render this an essential primer on efforts to feed the hungry in the modern world. * Gastronomica *[A]n interesting and, in many respects, revealing book.Scott-Smith is an evocative and clear writer, and his perspective is refreshing. * Technology and Culture *[T]he clear-cut framework proposed by Scott-Smith reflects an equilibrated and mindful attitude toward historical narrative. On an Empty Stomach is a book that commands attention in a field of study that has only recently started to develop and gain relevance. By proving himself able to bridge anthropology and history, but also driven by a sincere will to increase awareness among humanitarian nutritionists of the genealogy of their field of work, Tom Scott-Smith has written a convincing book, able to captivate a curious reader. * H-Soz-Kult *A lively, readable text. On an Empty Stomach is well written, meticulously detailed, teachable, and engaging. Grounded in close attention to the technologies and knowledges through which humanitarian food is delivered, it will appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners concerned with humanitarianism, development, nutrition, and health. * Isis Book Review *Scott-Smith's On an Empty Stomach is a very important contribution to both socio-cultural anthropology and history concerning food relief. This mature study reveals a complex web of circumstances, discoveries, innovations, individual agencies and collective ideologies which shaped the current forms of food relief and approach to human diet Heartily recommended * Anthropological Journal of European Cultures *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Humanitarian Approaches to Hunger 1. From the Classical Soup Kitchen to the Irish Famine 2. Justus Liebig and the Rise of Nutritional Science 3. Governing the Diet in Victorian Institutions 4. Colonialism and Communal Strength 5. Social Nutrition at the League of Nations 6. Military Feeding during World War II 7. The Medicalization of Hunger and the Postwar Period 8. High Modernism and the Development Decade 9. Low Modernism after Biafra 10. Small-Scale Devices and the Low Modernist Legacy Conclusion: On an Empty Stomach

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Book SynopsisWhat explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaignscompliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices.Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces'' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 20002005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers'' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of mTrade ReviewThis is a well-written, notable contribution to military sociology and security studies. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Production and Restraint of Military Violence 1. Participation in Counterinsurgency 2. Narrating Conflict and Violence: Ex-Combatant Accounts as Data 3. IDF Counterinsurgency in the Second Intifada 4. The Production of Strategic Violence 5. The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Violence 6. The Production and Control of Opportunistic Violence 7. Beyond Israel: Counterinsurgent Violenceand Restraint in Comparative Perspective Conclusion: Violence and Restraint in Counterinsurgency

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Book SynopsisThe Anarchist Inquisition explores the groundbreaking transnational human rights campaigns that emerged in response to a brutal wave of repression unleashed by the Spanish state to quash anarchist activities at the turn of the twentieth century. Mark Bray guides readers through this tumultuous erafrom backroom meetings in Paris and torture chambers in Barcelona, to international antiterrorist conferences in Rome and human rights demonstrations in Buenos Aires.Anarchist bombings in theaters and cafes in the 1890s provoked mass arrests, the passage of harsh anti-anarchist laws, and executions in France and Spain. Yet, far from a marginal phenomenon, this first international terrorist threat had profound ramifications for the broader development of human rights, as well as modern global policing, and international legislation on extradition and migration. A transnational network of journalists, lawyers, union activists, anarchists, and other dissidents relatTable of ContentsIntroduction: Two Children of Modernity Part I: The Propagandist by the Deed 1. "With Fire and Dynamite" 2. Propaganda by the Deed and Anarchist Communism 3. The Birth of the Propagandist by the Deed 4. Introducing the "Lottery of Death" 5. "There are no Innocent Bourgeois" Part II: El Proceso de Montjuich 6. The Anarchist Inquisition 7. The Return of Torquemada 8. Germinal 9. Montjuich, Dreyfus, and "el Desastre" 10. "All of Spain is Montjuich" Part III: The Shadow of Montjuich 11. The General Strike and the Montjuich Template of Resistance 12. The Iron Pineapple 13. Tossing the Bouquet at the Royal Wedding 14. "Truth on the March" for Francisco Ferrer 15. Francisco Ferrer and the Tragic Week Epilogue: "Neither Innocent nor Guilty"

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Jim Crow at the Ballot Box The Campaign Lessons Learned from Second Chances Campaign Old Habits Are Hard to Break Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (196566) is not only a legal status but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political, educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always work at onceat times some are dormant while others are ascendanttogether they can be described as a unified entity, a dynamic infrastructure, whose existence explains the persistence of impunity. For instance, truth telling, a first step in many responses to state violence, did not undermine the infrastructure but instead bent to it. Creative and artistic responses to revelations about the past, however, have begun to undermine the infrastructure by countering its temporality, affect, and social stigmatization and demo

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Book SynopsisIn Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (196566) is not only a legal status but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political, educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always work at onceat times some are dormant while others are ascendanttogether they can be described as a unified entity, a dynamic infrastructure, whose existence explains the persistence of impunity. For instance, truth telling, a first step in many responses to state violence, did not undermine the infrastructure but instead bent to it. Creative and artistic responses to revelations about the past, however, have begun to undermine the infrastructure by countering its temporality, affect, and social stigmatization and demo

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Book SynopsisDespite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the wellbeing of this population. The U.S. is, thus, a policy innovator and laggard in this regard. In Politics of Empowerment, David Pettinicchio offers a historically grounded analysis of the singular case of U.S. disability policy, countering long-held views of progress that privilege public demand as its primary driver. By the 1970s, a group of legislators and bureaucrats came to act as "political entrepreneurs." Motivated by personal and professional commitments, they were seen as experts leading a movement within the government. But as they increasingly faced obstacles to their legislative intentions, nascent disability advocacy and protest groups took the cause to the American people forming the basis of the contemporary disability rights movement. Drawing on extensive archival material, Pettinicchio redefines the relationship between grassroots advocacy and institutional politics, revealing a cycle of progress and backlash embedded in the American political system.Trade Review"David Pettinicchio has written a broad and ambitious study of the evolution of American disability policy and disability rights, incorporating changing policy approaches, governmental institutions, and social movement activities into his account. Drawing on legislative documents, policy debates, and sociological concepts, the book situates disability within broader social policy frameworks and political trends. It will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the interplay of disability policies, politics, and rights within the context of American policy-making." -- Richard K. Scotch, Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Political Economy * University of Texas at Dallas *"This excellent addition to the policy feedbacks literature shows how federal policy helped disabled activists become fully mobilized citizens. But progress is not always linear. Recurrent retrenchment efforts mean that the push for civil rights for the disabled is incomplete, and their economic citizenship not yet fully realized. A must-read for those interested in social movements and citizen participation." -- Andrea Louise Campbell, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science * MIT *"David Pettinicchio explains the odd but important development of disability politics and policy in the context of changing political alliances and definitions of civil rights. It's a compelling story, with lessons for advocates, policy makers, and anyone who wants to understand either group." -- David S. Meyer * University of California, Irvine *"Empirically, [this book] is a rigorous treatment of the successes and setbacks of the disability rights movement....A number of folks in our field...have discussed the importance of considering institutional actors, and what movement mobilization looks like from their point of view, rather than analyzing movements only from the perspective of movement actors. Pettinicchio does this admirably." -- Joshua A. Basseches * Mobilizing Ideas *"Politics of Empowerment is an important work that will both broaden the view of those interested specifically in the American disability rights movement and those more generally interested in social movements of all kinds." -- Stephen J. Meyers * Mobilization *"[A] meticulous historical and political account of the development of disability policy in the United States....I recommend this book to readers who are interested in understanding how people, politics, and governmental and organizational goals align to increase access and opportunity for marginalized groups." -- Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides * Contemporary Sociology *"Politics of Empowerment is a really, really good book. David Pettinicchio tells the story of disability policy in the United States with great care and close attention to detail....This book is both a specific history of disability policy as well as a broad story of the politics of social change....Politics of Empowerment is in many ways the best kind of scholarship: it generates new thinking and ideas, and it gives the rest of us a strong foundation to build upon." -- Jeremy R. Levine * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Political Evolution of Disability chapter abstractChapter 1 outlines the key tenets of the book's thesis: that disability rights entered into an already-defined agenda space revolving around social services and vocational rehabilitation. It did so by way of political entrepreneurs incrementally carving a path for rights to develop. These policies empowered a group of Americans once thought of exclusively as clients deserving of social services to be citizens entitled to civil rights. But, while it began as an elite-driven movement, disability rights would soon be threatened by policy rollbacks and retrenchment that ultimately mobilized a constituency to defend against these attacks. The political evolution of disability rights therefore provides an opportunity for contextualizing—in terms of time and space—the relationship between social movements, political entrepreneurship, policy shifts, and organizational transformations in the broader struggle for civil rights. 2It's Ability, Not Disability, That Counts chapter abstractChapter 2 further contextualizes the evolution of disability rights by examining the service-provision-dominated policy agenda in the first half of the twentieth century. Until the 1960s, a disability policy monopoly promoted a policy image emphasizing ability over disability—the idea that rehabilitation was necessary to overcome disability and create "good citizens." The chapter investigates the kinds of institutional constraints that prevented any significant policy reforms, requiring elites to pursue incremental policy changes. Political entrepreneurs championed the removal of architectural barriers, promoting equal access by using existing rhetoric about economic self-sufficiency through rehabilitation—and consequently laying the groundwork for rights to flourish. Ultimately, their efforts also helped frame the plight of a heterogeneous group as the common struggle of a community. 3Reshaping the Policy Agenda chapter abstractChapter 3 provides a systematic analysis of the kinds of institutional changes that helped political entrepreneurs extend the political discourse around disability to include civil rights. Beginning with the Great Society, the 1960s and 1970s saw an increasing number of congressional committees and administrative agencies involved in disability issues. While this helped gain disability a place on the agenda, it also generated conflict as different policy frameworks clashed. The chapter draws on the equal rights to transit debate as an example. Chapter 3 also points to the consequences of legislative change: that the way actors went about promoting a new logic around "the problem" of disability shaped policy outcomes, backlash, and most certainly the tools and motivations available to a political constituency to push for their rights. And, in mobilizing against political, economic, and social institutions, the disability rights movement necessarily challenged cultural understandings and meanings of disability. 4How Disability Advocacy Made Citizens out of Clients chapter abstractChapter 4 explains how disability organizations and policy coevolved. In the 1970s, the disability organizational sector underwent an advocacy explosion, as it adapted to a new rights-focused policy environment. Existing service-provision groups adopted political advocacy, alongside a proliferation of new advocacy organizations. The chapter illustrates the interdependent relationship between disability organizations and political entrepreneurs in protecting and advancing disability rights, especially when faced with growing backlash and political threats. Chapter 4 uses the transit debate, as well as educational mainstreaming, to situate the growing demand for advocacy as sympathetic elites confronted attempts to roll back rights. Changes in the disability voluntary sector encouraged the expansion of new mobilizing structures that would bring activists together. 5Politics Is Pressure chapter abstractChapter 5 looks at the rise of disability protest in the context of political threats to existing disability rights legislation. The disability rights movement in the government reflected critical structural and organizational transformations that politicized a constituency. Political entrepreneurs supplied the policy instruments around which disability groups helped mobilize everyday citizens with disabilities to champion their rights. The use of extra-institutional, disruptive tactics was not only necessary when institutional means became less available; it also drew public attention to the kinds of inequality disabled people faced. Educational mainstreaming, equal access to transit and Medicaid, and in-home care serve as salient examples of the decades-old unsettled issues that generated uncertainty and back-stepping, which fueled contentious politics and mobilized a movement. Chapter 5 points to this critical transformation in disability rights from an elite-driven movement in the government to a broader grassroots movement in the streets. 6Empowering the Government chapter abstractChapter 6 returns to the reasons why the disability rights struggle is, to this day, a story of unresolved policy entrenchment. The chapter highlights ongoing debates about integrating students with disabilities into regular classrooms and the continued fight over community-based care—key movement issues that are in deadlock. The same institutional configurations that allowed for policy innovation and political entrepreneurship also led to conflict, obstruction, retrenchment, and undesirable policy consequences. Indeed, the case of disability rights reveals the ways in which the duality in America's political institutions creates both the resources and the motivations for citizen action. The chapter speaks to current efforts to undermine policies like the ADA that are rooted in their political development, negotiation, compromise, and lack of enforcement. It also sheds light on the status of the disability rights movement today and the importance of citizen engagement in this civil rights struggle.

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Book SynopsisHuman rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record remains a key indicator of its governmental legitimacy. Bureaucratic Intimacies shows how government workers encounter human rights rhetoric through training programs and articulates the perils and promises of these encounters for the subjects and objects of Turkish governance. Drawing on years of participant observation in programs for police officers, judges and prosecutors, healthcare workers, and prison personnel, Elif M. Babül argues that the accession process does not always advance human rights. In casting rights as requirements for expertise and professionalism, training programs strip human rights of their radical valences, disassociating them from their political meanings within grassroots movements. Translation of human rights into a tool of good governance leads to competing understandings of what human rights should do, not necessarily to liberal, transparent, and accountable governmental practices. And even as translation renders human rights relevant for the everyday practices of government workers, it ultimately comes at a cost to the politics of human rights in Turkey.Trade Review"To render Turkey a more palatable candidate for membership, the European Union imposed human rights training programs on its state workers, most notably its police. It is this disconcerting enterprise of democratic pedagogy ironically carried out as the government was harshly repressing its opposition that Elif Babül critically examines through a scrupulous and insightful ethnography."—Didier Fassin, author of Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing"It is rare for a book with such theoretical breadth and consideration of high-level political and institutional transformation to also offer such amazing, unexpected on-the-ground detail. Bureaucratic Intimacies makes a totally fresh contribution into how European Union harmonization and human rights education seminars actually function."—Esra Özyürek, The London School of Economics and Political Science"Human rights advocates constantly grapple with how to persuade countries to adopt human rights. Bureaucratic Intimacies tackles this important question and depicts the tensions between Turkish bureaucrats and international human rights elites. Elif Babül provides wonderful insight into the workings of bureaucracy confronted by international expertise, a very important issue that has, until now, received far too little attention."—Sally Engle Merry, New York University"Babül (Mount Holyoke College) describes how Turkish government workers resisted EU demands in the fields of human, women's, children's, and health rights....Recommended."—R.W. Olson, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Standards and Their Tinkering 1. Training Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe 2. Human Rights, Good Governance, and Professional Expertise 3. Human Rights Education and Adult Learning 4. Translation and the Limits of State Language 5. Dramas of Statehood and Bureaucratic Ambiguity Conclusion: Of Fragments and Violations

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Book SynopsisAdvocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding body of international law and jurisprudence, however, lacks a core text that provides an up-to-date look at current children's rights issues, the evolution of children's rights law, and the efficacy of efforts to protect children. Campaigning for Children focuses on contemporary children's rights, identifying the range of abuses that affect children today, including early marriage, female genital mutilation, child labor, child sex tourism, corporal punishment, the impact of armed conflict, and access to education. Jo Becker traces the last 25 years of the children's rights movement, including the evolution of international laws and standards to protect children from abuse and exploitation. From a practitioner's perspective, Becker provides readers with careful case studies of the organizations and campaigns that are making a difference in the lives of children, and the relevant strategies that have been successful—or not. By presenting a variety of approaches to deal with each issue, this book carefully teases out broader lessons for effective social change in the field of children's rights.Trade Review"For decades I have been familiar with Jo Becker's passion, thorough knowledge, and consistent drive for the children whose rights are systematically denied. This book examines initiatives and strategies to show that change for children is possible, and that remarkable transformation is achievable. Campaigning for Children, with its most compelling evidence, will go a long way in ensuring that human rights of children are protected worldwide."—Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Children's Rights Activist"This compelling introduction to children's rights draws on the experience of activists addressing critical problems such as child marriage, child labor, child sex tourism, child soldiers, and access to education. Becker shows the interconnections between these issues both in causation and approaches to remediation. Clear and interesting, Campaigning for Children provides a key guide for moving forward and hope for the future of children across the globe."—Cynthia Grant Bowman, Cornell Law School"Campaigning for Children carefully explores the concrete initiatives that have improved the lives of children, and highlights successful advocacy strategies. State authorities, academics, human rights institutions, civil society organizations, as well as the professionals who work with and for children will benefit from reading it. Becker's book is a vital resource in our collective effort to create a world fit for children."—Benyam Dawit Mezmur, UN Committee on the Rights of the ChildTable of Contents1. From Property to People: The Evolution of Children's Rights 2. Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 3. Juvenile Justice 4. Child Marriage 5. Child Labor 6. Corporal Punishment 7. Child Sex Tourism 8. Child Soldiers 9. Access to Education 10. Attacks on Education 11. Lessons for the Future

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Book SynopsisInternational crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a detailed picture of how ideas of international crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to these ideas problematically disconnect them from the lived and the specific and foster distance between those who have experienced international crime and those who have not. McMillan draws on interdisciplinary work spanning law, criminology, humanitarianism, socio-legal studies, cultural studies, and human geography to show how understandings of international crime and justice hierarchize, spectacularize, and appropriate the suffering of others and promote an ideal of justice fundamentally disconnected from life as it is lived. McMillan critiques the mode of global interconnection they offer, one which bears resemblance to past colonial global approaches and which seeks to foster community through the image of crime and the practice of punitive justice. This book powerfully underscores the importance of the ideas of international crime and justice and their significant limits, cautioning against their continued valorization.Trade Review"The concepts of international crime and international justice, and the global documents, laws and institutions that aim to put these ideas into practice, are typically promoted as a moral good, a sign of humanity's progress towards a global community. Imagining the International lucidly and convincingly shows why these 'captivating' and 'beautiful' ideas are an ambivalent gift. Through a series of compelling case studies, Nesam McMillan explores the unanticipated effects of international crime and justice—the hierarchies of universal versus local, the legacies of colonialism and the sacrifice of local concerns to an international agenda. Questioning the idea of grounding international solidarity in criminal justice, she urges us to think in more complex and demanding ways about the nature of global interconnection and how it can be fostered in ways that genuinely benefit local communities. This is a timely and provocative book which provides both a map and a critique—it will be valued by scholars and students alike."—Rosanne Kennedy, Australian National University"This insightful book is a much-needed corrective antidote to the nostrums of internationalism. Nesam McMillan unwraps how violence that crosses the gaze of international law becomes appreciated but also appropriated and othered at the same time. This book is a compelling call for inclusiveness and a powerful exhortation for globality to transcend post-coloniality."—Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University"Imagining the International is an innovative, compelling and much-needed intervention. Forcing us to rethink our assumptions, McMillan questions how certain crimes are established as globally important and others not, and explores the ethical, cultural, and political implications of creating hierarchies of suffering delinked from human experience."—Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine"Instead of the idealized discourse about exceptional crimes as a spectacle that objectifies the victims, the global justice project needs to be newly conceptualized from the positions of equality and solidarity. McMillan's book is an important step in this direction."—Katarina Ristic, ConnectionsTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Ideas of "International" Crime and Justice 1. On International Crime, Justice, and Community 2. "Rwanda": The Production of a Global Event 3. International Crime as Spectacle: Scale, Subjectivity, Ethics 4. The Ideal of International Criminal Justice: Transcendence, Otherness, Myth Conclusion: Community Beyond Crime: Untethering International Crime, Justice, and Community

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Informed by interviews with activists from all walks of life—city dwellers, villagers, political dissidents, children of military families, wage laborers, shopkeepers, beauticians, spirit mediums, lawyers, students—Chua details the vivid particulars of the LGBT activist experience founding a movement first among exiles and migrants and then in Myanmar's cities, towns, and countryside. A distinct political and emotional culture of activism took shape, fusing shared emotions and cultural bearings with legal and political ideas about human rights. For this network of activists, human rights moved hearts and minds and crafted a transformative web of friendship, fellowship, and affection among queer Burmese. Chua's investigation provides crucial insights into the intersection of emotions and interpersonal relationships with law, rights, and social movements.Trade Review"The Politics of Love in Myanmar is highly original, compelling, and powerful. Lynette Chua's ethnography excavates the emotional bonds and 'way of life' that developed through human rights practice by LGBT activists in post-2011 Myanmar. Beautifully written and brilliantly theorized, the book is highly recommended reading for scholars interested in human rights, legal mobilization, social movements, and LGBT politics." -- Michael McCann * University of Washington *"Lynette Chua deftly opens a new window on the empirical investigation of emotions, demonstrating the surprising ways that emotions animate not just relationships and social movements, but the interpretation, assertion, and lived meaning of rights. The lessons drawn from the vivid, human lives of Tun Tun, Tin Hla, and their fellow activists are a revelation." -- Kathryn Abrams * University of California, Berkeley *"In addition to being a pioneering and timely study of LGBT mobilization in Myanmar, Chua's book is a valuable contribution to the study of human rights and sociolegal scholarship on rights and social movements." -- Wei Wei * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis introduces the book's central concept of human rights practice as a way of life and presents an overview of the Burmese LGBT movement. It sets out the three motivating questions of the book: How did the Burmese LGBT movement emerge? How do LGBT activists of the movement make sense of human rights and put them into action, that is, practice human rights? What are the implications of their human rights practice? The chapter also explains the significance of the book: a study about how human rights matter in a society where they were suppressed for decades and where self-conceptions have been informed by Buddhist beliefs and other cultural sources of knowing, feeling, and interacting with the world. 1Human Rights Practice as a Way of Life chapter abstractThis chapter elaborates on the book's central concept, human rights practice as a way of life, to explain how it advances human rights studies and sociolegal research on the relationship between rights and social movements. This concept has three salient features: (1) The practice comprises recursive, overlapping social processes of formation, grievance transformation, and community building, (2) which are shaped by and shape emotions and interpersonal relationships and (3) produce three outcomes: self-transformation of the rights bearer, the creation of a distinctive emotion culture, and the introduction of new claims by a new collective claimant, LGBT rights for LGBT people, into Burmese politics. The chapter also uses the concept to explain the flaws and limitations of Burmese LGBT activists' human rights practice. By tracing processes and attending to emotions and relationships, the concept emphasizes the complexities of agency when assessing the power and prospects of human rights. 2Forming the Movement: Founding Emotions and Social Ties chapter abstractThis chapter draws from the author's fieldwork to illustrate formation processes, the first of three sets of processes that make up Burmese LGBT activists' human rights practice as a way of life. As the chapter details the movement's emergence from formation processes, it begins to show how emotions and interpersonal relationships constitute human rights practice. To get in touch with and encourage other Burmese to participate in their human rights workshops and join the movement, movement pioneers make use of preexisting ties rooted in all kinds of suffering caused by the violence of the Burmese state and the discrimination of queer Burmese. By tapping these relationships, they also stir up raw emotions that stem from the suffering, affections toward movement leaders, and a mix of apprehension, courage, and composure that recruits have to muster to answer their calls. 3Transforming Grievances: Emotional Fealty to Human Rights chapter abstractThis chapter draws from the author's fieldwork to illustrate grievance transformation, the second set of social processes of human rights practice as a way of life. Grievance transformation elicits, remakes, and produces emotions to cultivate Burmese LGBT activists' fealty to human rights and perpetuate their practice. To make human rights relevant to their lives, they engage familiar cultural schemas and resources, using common experiences, Buddhist karmic beliefs and social norms that support the movement's cause and sidelining those that are disadvantageous to it. Their unique interpretation, centered around dignity, social belonging, and responsibility, depicts human rights as a collective good to be collectively achieved. The processes of grievance transformation lead to three interrelated outcomes—self-transformation, distinctive emotion culture, and new political claims of LGBT rights in Myanmar—demonstrating how human rights practice has the potential to influence formal institutions of law and politics from the bottom up. 4Building Community: Emotional Bonds Among Activists chapter abstractThis chapter uses empirical details to illustrate community building, the third set of processes in the human rights practice as a way of life. Community-building processes engender affinity, camaraderie, solidarity, and fellowship, which germinate affective ties among those who commit to their practice, forming a community of Burmese LGBT activists. The bonds emerge from the affinity of sharing the collective marker of "LGBT" and from the social interactions involved in practicing human rights together. They bind people together as LGBT activists, draw them to stay with the movement, and sustain the practice itself. Community building contributes to self-transformation, distinctive emotion culture, and new claims and claimant by emphasizing LGBT identities as an embodiment of dignity, facilitating bonding inclusive of all queer Burmese, and creating an LGBT activist community. They further highlight the potential to influence formal institutions of law and politics starting from personal and grassroots changes. 5Faults, Fault Lines, and the Complexities of Agency chapter abstractThis chapter examines the flaws and limitations of Burmese LGBT activists' human rights practice as a way of life. Power dynamics, differences, and divides among activists result in varying degrees of self-transformation and adoption of their distinctive emotion culture. Their ability to make LGBT rights claims is also hampered by deep norms, beliefs, power, and hierarchy in Burmese society. Because the shortcomings arise from the social processes of human rights practice, they also critically inform the power and prospects of human rights to stimulate collective action and social change. They are just as vital as the enthusiasm and optimism encountered in previous chapters. The shortcomings, together with the positive outcomes, indicate that human rights practice is far from overtaking the old and entrenched modes of feeling, interacting, and knowing already existing in Burmese society. Instead, with human rights, LGBT activists offer an alternative way of life alongside others. Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter takes stock of the book's central concept, human rights practice as a way of life. It looks at the concept's principal features and contributions to human rights scholarship as well as the sociolegal study of rights and social movements. It considers the book's broader lessons for understanding the potential of human rights to advance collective action and attain social progress. It concludes with the intellectual premises with which the book started: the socially contingent nature of human rights, reflecting on what relational and emotional emphases mean for their empirical study.

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Book SynopsisAdvocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding body of international law and jurisprudence, however, lacks a core text that provides an up-to-date look at current children's rights issues, the evolution of children's rights law, and the efficacy of efforts to protect children. Campaigning for Children focuses on contemporary children's rights, identifying the range of abuses that affect children today, including early marriage, female genital mutilation, child labor, child sex tourism, corporal punishment, the impact of armed conflict, and access to education. Jo Becker traces the last 25 years of the children's rights movement, including the evolution of international laws and standards to protect children from abuse and exploitation. From a practitioner's perspective, Becker provides readers with careful case studies of the organizations and campaigns that are making a difference in the lives of children, and the relevant strategies that have been successful—or not. By presenting a variety of approaches to deal with each issue, this book carefully teases out broader lessons for effective social change in the field of children's rights.Trade Review"For decades I have been familiar with Jo Becker's passion, thorough knowledge, and consistent drive for the children whose rights are systematically denied. This book examines initiatives and strategies to show that change for children is possible, and that remarkable transformation is achievable. Campaigning for Children, with its most compelling evidence, will go a long way in ensuring that human rights of children are protected worldwide."—Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Children's Rights Activist"This compelling introduction to children's rights draws on the experience of activists addressing critical problems such as child marriage, child labor, child sex tourism, child soldiers, and access to education. Becker shows the interconnections between these issues both in causation and approaches to remediation. Clear and interesting, Campaigning for Children provides a key guide for moving forward and hope for the future of children across the globe."—Cynthia Grant Bowman, Cornell Law School"Campaigning for Children carefully explores the concrete initiatives that have improved the lives of children, and highlights successful advocacy strategies. State authorities, academics, human rights institutions, civil society organizations, as well as the professionals who work with and for children will benefit from reading it. Becker's book is a vital resource in our collective effort to create a world fit for children."—Benyam Dawit Mezmur, UN Committee on the Rights of the ChildTable of Contents1. From Property to People: The Evolution of Children's Rights 2. Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 3. Juvenile Justice 4. Child Marriage 5. Child Labor 6. Corporal Punishment 7. Child Sex Tourism 8. Child Soldiers 9. Access to Education 10. Attacks on Education 11. Lessons for the Future

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Book SynopsisHuman rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record remains a key indicator of its governmental legitimacy. Bureaucratic Intimacies shows how government workers encounter human rights rhetoric through training programs and articulates the perils and promises of these encounters for the subjects and objects of Turkish governance. Drawing on years of participant observation in programs for police officers, judges and prosecutors, healthcare workers, and prison personnel, Elif M. Babül argues that the accession process does not always advance human rights. In casting rights as requirements for expertise and professionalism, training programs strip human rights of their radical valences, disassociating them from their political meanings within grassroots movements. Translation of human rights into a tool of good governance leads to competing understandings of what human rights should do, not necessarily to liberal, transparent, and accountable governmental practices. And even as translation renders human rights relevant for the everyday practices of government workers, it ultimately comes at a cost to the politics of human rights in Turkey.Trade Review"To render Turkey a more palatable candidate for membership, the European Union imposed human rights training programs on its state workers, most notably its police. It is this disconcerting enterprise of democratic pedagogy ironically carried out as the government was harshly repressing its opposition that Elif Babül critically examines through a scrupulous and insightful ethnography."—Didier Fassin, author of Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing"It is rare for a book with such theoretical breadth and consideration of high-level political and institutional transformation to also offer such amazing, unexpected on-the-ground detail. Bureaucratic Intimacies makes a totally fresh contribution into how European Union harmonization and human rights education seminars actually function."—Esra Özyürek, The London School of Economics and Political Science"Human rights advocates constantly grapple with how to persuade countries to adopt human rights. Bureaucratic Intimacies tackles this important question and depicts the tensions between Turkish bureaucrats and international human rights elites. Elif Babül provides wonderful insight into the workings of bureaucracy confronted by international expertise, a very important issue that has, until now, received far too little attention."—Sally Engle Merry, New York University"Babül (Mount Holyoke College) describes how Turkish government workers resisted EU demands in the fields of human, women's, children's, and health rights....Recommended."—R.W. Olson, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Standards and Their Tinkering 1. Training Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe 2. Human Rights, Good Governance, and Professional Expertise 3. Human Rights Education and Adult Learning 4. Translation and the Limits of State Language 5. Dramas of Statehood and Bureaucratic Ambiguity Conclusion: Of Fragments and Violations

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a "rights-holder" and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities. Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how universal human rights are understood, practiced, negotiated, and challenged in concert and in conflict with Indigenous rights. Moving between communities, government, regional NGOs, and international UN forums, Sarah E. Holcombe addresses how the notion of rights plays out within the distinctive and ambivalent sociopolitical context of Australia, and focusing specifically on Indigenous women and their experiences of violence. Can the secular modern rights-bearer accommodate the ideals of the relational, spiritual Anangu person? Engaging in a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the local Pintupi-Luritja vernacular and observing various Indigenous interactions with law enforcement and domestic violence outreach programs, Holcombe offers new insights into our understanding of how the global rights discourse is circulated and understood within Indigenous cultures. She reveals how, in the postcolonial Australian context, human rights are double-edged: they enforce assimilation to a neoliberal social order at the same time that they empower and enfranchise the Indigenous citizen as a political actor. Remote Freedoms writes Australia's Indigenous peoples into the international debate on localizing rights in multicultural terms.Trade Review"A vibrant, thoughtful analysis of the political and gendered experiences of indigenous rights, human rights, and citizenship among aboriginal communities in Australia. Remote Freedoms draws on Holcombe's years of research to offer accessible, nuanced engagements with anthropological theories of personhood, translation, politics, and justice." -- Dorothy L. Hodgson * Rutgers University *"Australia has an ambivalent approach to human rights, especially regarding Aboriginal peoples. This highly-readable book brings a fresh perspective. Contrasting legal and rights approaches, Holcombe examines how Aboriginal women experiencing violence resist victimhood, but have few alternatives to change their circumstances. The national political context which frames the focus on Central Australia makes it all the more compelling." -- Gaynor Macdonald * University of Sydney *"Holcombe's achievement is to make it clearer to outsiders what is at stake as Anangu dialogue, among themselves and with outsiders, about experiments in reconciling human rights principles and vernacular notions of social justice." -- Timothy Rowse * Oceania *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Indigenous Rights as Human Rights in Central Australia chapter abstractThis chapter provides a brief history of human rights and how the discourse of human rights is understood in law and policy within the Australian state. Australia's ambivalent relationship with human rights is examined, providing a backdrop to the lack of ethnographic treatments of human rights. Tracing the ethnographic focus on land rights as a form of cultural rights, it then lays the foundation for understanding how broader human rights concerns have been decoupled from Indigenous rights. Exploring the parameters for recognition of Indigenous human rights, this chapter interrogates the normative principles embodied within the human rights discourse. Considering how an Anangu person becomes a "human-rights holder," the chapter unpacks the elements that specify this type of personhood. The tensions between culture and human rights are explored via the key tenets of a human-rights-based ontology, enabling a discussion of human rights culture in relation to Anangu cultures. 1The Act of Translation: Emancipatory Potential and Apocryphal Revelations chapter abstractThis chapter examines concepts of rights that arise as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is translated into the local vernacular of Pintupi-Luritja. The semantic properties of English and possible equivalent Anangu concepts are juxtaposed in the translation context, and the limitations and possibilities of the universal human rights discourse are reimagined. This chapter then sets up the core challenges and possibilities of the local uptake of this discourse. Interrogating the assumptions embedded in the Declaration is also to interrogate the foundations of the secular modern person. Can this rights bearer accommodate the ideals of the relational spiritual Anangu person? The anthropological literature on this relational or sociocentric person is discussed. Revisiting this early ethnographic subject is essential if we are to reconsider this distinction in terms of a continuum, rather than a dichotomy and thus also to encourage a local dialogue with human rights. 2Engendering Social and Cultural Rights chapter abstractThis chapter explores the relationality of gender and forming and becoming an Anangu "woman" or "man." The family is one of these core sites and one of the most contested sites within the realm women's human rights. The gendered sociality of work practices are explored as sites that reinforce the status quo of gendered roles and responsibilities. This chapter also begins the discussion on women's rights as human rights by recalling the history between early feminism and the Indigenous civil rights movement within Australia. This discussion enables a consideration of the tensions between collectivist and individualist approaches to women's rights as it actively works through the idea that universal concepts, such as women's human rights, can take hold only when they are encountered within local and particular contexts. By exploring where the principles of human rights are operating in several NGOs the work of human rights is revealed. 3"Stop Whinging and Get on with It": The Shifting Contours of Gender Equality (and Equity) chapter abstractThis chapter examines the contested contours of complementarity and equality through the lens of gender by exploring how gender as a relational practice is manifest in a range of social contexts that assert gender segregation. The social ramifications of the ceremonial practices of "men's business" are explored as a paradigmatic location for making gender. Likewise, the Aboriginal English term "women's business" captures a range of practices to include female sexuality and reproductive rights. This chapter begins to specify a regional and local perspective as mediated through notions of gender complementarity, rather than equality. Although the applicability of feminism is challenged, there is a range of indicators of social transformation where these social practices of gender segregation are being modified and adapted, notably in the changing relations of reproduction. The chapter also examines the social and ontological structures that mediate violence and that have become known as "family violence." 4"Women Go to the Clinic, and Men Go to Jail": The Gendered Indigenized Subject of Legal Rights chapter abstractThis chapter explores the intersections among legal rights, local perceptions of social justice, and gender violence. Spousal or intimate partner violence exposes multiple sites of articulation with formal rights via the legal system at the same time as revealing Anangu responsibilities in customary terms. Anangu women's interactions with and responses to the legal system, including the police, reflect contradictory and competing discourses between family and the state system. The formal legal system representing Aboriginal people has instrumentalized women as the "victims" and men as the "perpetrators" through the extensive range of mandatory reporting and sentencing laws. This chapter specifically elaborates the ways in which rights that entail some specification of suffering, injury, or inequality compel an identity defined by subordination. Seeking to explain Anangu women's lack of compliance with pressing charges against violent spouses, the chapter considers whether mandatory reporting and mandatory sentencing reduce the suffering of victims. 5Therapy Culture and the Intentional Subject chapter abstractThis chapter examines therapeutic interventions, including the Cross Borders Indigenous Family Violence Program and the Women's Shelter outreach service. These programs and services aim, respectively, to change the status of the "perpetrator" to an empathizer and to alter the subjectivity of clients from a "victim" to an actor. Exploring these methods and approaches, the chapter analyzes the ways in which this new Aboriginal self is inscribed as the inner subjectivities of the participants/clients are managed. As these therapeutic technologies aim to foster the responsibilization discourse they must first question and dismantle the sociocentric structures of feeling that guide Anangu decision making. These programs and services closely follow the framework and concepts that underpin human rights. The role these therapeutic technologies plays in the production of individuals' "freedom to choose" and freedom to associate offers insight into the incremental transformation of Anangu subjects into human rights holders. 6Civil and Political Rights: Is There Space for an Aboriginal Politics? chapter abstractThis chapter explores the ways in which citizenship has become the mechanism for neoliberal reform. How do the tensions in human rights as political entailments play out between the regulatory dimensions of citizenship and its emancipatory promise? The behavioral norms that this citizen has to comply with are explored in terms of rights as entailments as these unfold via the responsibilization discourse and ubiquitous working of the good governance project. This chapter ultimately asks: What are the terms for an efficacious Aboriginal politics with and against the state, and is there room to expand the political imagination to incorporate alternative terms and modalities? In the course of the case study discussion on governance, a pluralist approach is articulated as this concept is specified as "good enough" or as "effective and legitimate." It has come to incorporate the foundational dimensions of a multicultural and a self-consciously "incomplete" human rights. 7International Human Rights Forums and (East Coast) Indigenous Activism chapter abstractThe penultimate chapter returns to the sites where human rights and Indigenous human rights took their shape and continue to evolve—the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and Geneva. In discussing the soft advocacy within the UNPFII, its other roles as educatory and emancipatory through further development of the second wave Indigenism are elaborated, along with the performative aspects of these UN sites as a "public audit ritual." The multivalent concept of "good governance" is also located here. Although the methodology of this chapter has telescopic tendencies, it is also a reflection of the issues that confound the possibilities for the mobilization of this discourse to remote central Australia. A key question explored is whether and how the Indigenous human rights discourse, at this international level, circulates to remote central Australia, where arguably it is most needed. Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes the dimensions of human rights that underpin a diverse range of government policies, approaches, and programs in very remote central Australia. Many of these dimensions are the acknowledged public goods of accountability, representation and gender equity. For Anangu citizens the entailments of citizenship are dual edged. Whether explicit or tacit, there has been an increasing coupling of rights and duties. By exploring this discourse, the relationship between what constitutes a [human] right and what constitutes a person was revealed. This book agitates for alternative understandings of human dignity and more porous human rights that are less dependent on liberal definitions of humanity. Yet, the moral language and social justice potential of human rights has much to offer Anangu. The conclusion locates local practices that intersect with and explicitly draw from human rights norms to reveal what it takes for sociomoral normative practices to change.

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