Human rights, civil rights Books

Book SynopsisMaking the Future is the latest collection of essays from Noam Chomsky, one of our most vital and provocative voices of political dissent. Taking up the thread from 2007''s Interventions, these penetrating and compelling articles examine numerous topics, including the financial crisis, Obama''s presidency, WikiLeaks and the on-going conflicts in the Middle East.Restating and refining his commitment to democracy and finding inspiration in the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, Making the Future is Chomsky''s fiercely-argued and timely comment on a fast-changing world.Praise for Noam Chomsky:''Chomsky is one of a small band of individuals fighting a whole industry. And that makes him not only brilliant, but heroic'' Arundhati Roy''Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today'' New York Times BTrade ReviewChomsky is one of a small band of individuals fighting a whole industry. And that makes him not only brilliant, but heroic -- Arundhati RoyNoam Chomsky is an inspiration all over the world - to millions I suspect - for the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale -- John PilgerNoam Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today * The New York Times Book Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This theoretically sophisticated and politically powerful book marks a groundbreaking moment in the anthropological study of Kashmir and South Asia that will also make an excellent text in undergraduate and graduate seminar on various themes and topics." * New Books in Islamic Studies (NBN) *"By focusing on the embodiment of kinship ties and mobilization of ritual that sustain those left behind, Resisting Disappearance sensitively shows how the political reality of ongoing occupation transforms everyday lives. Ather Zia’s compelling book will be of interest to students of militarization, occupation and colonization, gender politics and kinship, ritual, everyday life, and activism, at all levels." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"An indispensable text...Ather Zia weaves together a haunting, collective memoir of Muslim women’s organizing in Kashmir." * South Asian History and Culture *"The depth and familiarity of Zia’s analysis is inspiring...This is a truly marvellous book—it is a key contribution to anthropology and feminism." * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *"Resisting Disappearance is about what all of our society forgets: How Kashmiri women are continually resisting, striving every day and resisting the disappearances of family members,usually, sons, husbands or fathers...remarkable as it makes us understand the nuances and the multiple dynamics within Kashmir." * Feminism in India *"[A]n important and successful addition to both ethnographic works and works of feminist political theory on South and Central Asia." * Journal of Asian Studies *"[W]ith its engaging conversations on enforced disappearances... Zia’s work goes beyond Kashmir and is a testimony to the thousands of lives left un-grieved in conflict zones." * The India Forum *"The work pushes the boundary of ethnographic writing by recovering the aesthetics of poetry in the context of doing fieldwork in violent sites." * Borderlines *"[A]m imperative and urgent text... very lucid in style and structure and stands as evidence of Zia’s deeply reflective and introspective scholarship." * Doing Sociology *

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Book SynopsisThe second book in a three-volume series on Black American artists, featuring work from the 1950s to the 1970s that responded to the cultural, political, and social concerns of the era

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Book SynopsisAt the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then sold to the US after 9/11, he was disappeared to Gauntánamo Bay, where he spent the next 15 years as Detainee #441.In the vein of Ishmael Beah''s A Long Way Gone, Don''t Forget Us Here tells two coming-of-age stories in parallel: a makeshift island outpost becoming the world''s most notorious prison and an innocent young man emerging from its darkness. Arriving as a stubborn teenager, Mansoor survived the camp''s infamous interrogation program and became a feared and hardened resistance fighter leading prison riots and hunger strikes. With time though, he grew into the man prisoners nicknamed Smiley Troublemaker: a student, writer, historian, and dedicated pop culture fan. With unexpected warmth and empathy, he unwinds a narrative of fighting for hope and survival in unimaginable circumstances, illuminating the limitle

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Book SynopsisThis new textbook provides an introduction to humanitarian protection, a field of study concerned with international responses to armed conflict, political violence, and humanitarian crisis.The book engages with a wide range of empirical and normative questions, providing an overview of the academic literature whilst simultaneously discussing the policies and practices associated with protective responses to conflict and humanitarian emergencies that put the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable populations, including civilians, refugees, and minority groups, at risk. Divided into three parts, covering the origins of the humanitarian protection regime, the range of actors involved, and the responsibilities of these actors, the book offers an accessible entry point into the major contemporary debates, providing readers with the conceptual tools for understanding core issues. Key points are reinforced and illustrated through the deployment of selected case studies, and a compreheTrade Review'Understanding Human Protection is an expertly written, systematic introduction to the history, institutions and practices relating to humanitarian protection and intervention. Filled with illustrations based on pertinent case-studies, and written in a clear and highly accessible manner, it is a valuable resource for teachers and students to grasp the breadth of the field, and key debates in one concise volume.'--Cecilia Jacob, The Australian National University'Crossley provides a fantastic introduction to the humanitarian protection regime. From R2P to UN reform, humanitarian relief to targeted sanctions, Understanding Humanitarian Protection offers a sharp, highly informative, and accessible account of the development of the regime, its key issues, and major controversies.'--James Pattison, University of Manchester, UK'How to protect civilians from war and other man-made crises is one of the key practical and intellectual challenges of our time. Noele Crossley’s book provides a useful survey of how different traditions of thought and a wide range of external governments, international organisations, and civil society have tried to meet this challenge. Her conclusion suggests better informed citizens, governments and organisations should build a global regime that eliminates protection "black holes" -- territories where third parties cannot alleviate terrible suffering.'--Paul D. Williams, George Washington University, USA'Noele Crossley’s Understanding Humanitarian Protection provides a comprehensive and thoughtful introduction to a range of themes related to conflict prevention, response, and management. The book is very well structured, as it moves through the history of humanitarian protection, then discusses key state and international actors in contemporary protection regimes, before systematically mapping different forms of intervention and crisis response. The analysis is neatly complemented by a wide range of case studies. The book would be an ideal addition to any undergraduate or post-graduate course on themes of peace and conflict.'--John Gledhill, University of Oxford, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Origins 2. Human Rights and the Cold War 3. Rethinking Protection after the Cold War Part 2: Actors 4. States and Regional Organisations 5. The United Nations 6. Humanitarian Organisations and Civil Society Part 3: Responsibilities 7. Prevention 8. Reaction 9. Rebuilding 10. Conclusion

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Book Synopsis“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"Elegant... intriguing, if not audacious... Hunt is an astute historian." -- Joanna Bourke - Harper's"Fast-paced, provocative, and ultimately optimistic. Declarations, she writes, are not empty words but transformative; they make us want to become the people they claim we are." -- The New Yorker"A provocative and engaging history of the political impact of human rights." -- Gary J. Bass - New Republic"This is a wonderful story of the emergence and development of the powerful idea of human rights, written by one of the leading historians of our time." -- Amartya Sen"Rich, elegant, and persuasive." -- London Review of Books"As Americans begin to hold their leaders accountable for the mistakes made in the war against terror, this book ought to serve as a guide to thinking about one of the most serious mistakes of all, the belief that America can win that war by revoking the Declaration that brought the nation into being." -- Alan Wolfe - Commonweal

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Book SynopsisPreviously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this collection brings together some of the most influential political contemporary philosophers to present a critical review of David Miller's co-national priority thesis and give a state-of-the-art overview of the prevailing positions on nationalism and global justice within political philosophy today. The redistribution schemes of our democratic societies drastically prioritize the needs of co-nationals above those of other human beings. Is this common practice legitimate or is it a form of collective egoism? Answering this question brings us to the heart of two of the most significant debates in contemporary political philosophy: those on nationalism and global justice. Within contemporary political philosophy, Miller is one of the few political theorists who occupies a prominent place in both debates. His central argument is that national boundaries cannot bTable of Contents1. David Miller’s Theory of Global Justice. A Brief Overview Helder De Schutter and Ronald Tinnevelt 2. National Responsibility and Global Justice David Miller 3. Human Rights and Equality in the Work of David Miller Leif Wenar 4. Reasonable Partiality for Compatriots and the Global Responsibility Gap Robert van der Veen 5. What do we owe others as a Matter of Global Justice and does National Membership Matter? Gillian Brock 6. National Responsibility, Reparations and Distributive Justice Kok-Chor Tan 7. Collective Responsibility and National Responsibility Roland Pierik 8. National and Statist Responsibility Jacob T. Levy 9. Global Justice, Climate Change and Miller’s Theory of Responsibility Margaret Moore 10. Global Justice as Justice for a World of Largely Independent Nations? From Dualism to a Multi-Level Ethical Position Ronald Tinnevelt and Helder De Schutter 11. Global Justice in Complex Moral Worlds. Dilemmas of Contextualized Theories Veit Bader 12. A Response David Miller

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Book SynopsisHuman rights offer a vision of international justice that idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. This book elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage.Trade ReviewA most welcome book, The Last Utopia is a clear-eyed account of the origins of "human rights": the best we have. -- Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945The triumph of The Last Utopia is that it restores historical nuance, skepticism and context to a concept that, in the past 30 years, has played a large role in world affairs. -- Brendan Simms * Wall Street Journal *Administer[s] electroshock therapy to a field imprisoned by its own Whiggishness. -- Benjamin Nathans * New York Review of Books *In his erudite new book, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Samuel Moyn...argues that it was only in the 1970s, when other utopian ideologies—socialism, anti-colonialism, and anti-communism—fell by the wayside that human rights assumed its stature as the ultimate moral arbiter of international conduct. -- Jordan Michael Smith * Slate *[H]ighly successful and endlessly controversial… In the place of celebratory treatments of a centuries-long, relentless progression of human rights, Moyn proposed a radically new paradigm… The Last Utopia threw shots across the bow of myriad scholarly camps, from political science to anthropology, sociology to philosophy; its impact reverberated far beyond the academy… The Last Utopia was one of those rare and brilliant books that compelled readers to reexamine their most cherished beliefs. It fundamentally changed the tone and tenor of human rights history, vaulting Moyn into the ranks of the country’s leading public intellectuals. -- Patrick William Kelly * Los Angeles Review of Books *In this profound, important, and utterly original book, Moyn demonstrates how human rights constituted a new moral horizon and language of politics as it emerged in the last generation, a novel and fragile achievement on the wreckage of earlier dreams. A must read. -- Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black is a CountryWith unparalleled clarity and originality, Moyn's hard-hitting, radically revisionist, and persuasive history of human rights provides a bracing historical reconstruction with which scholars, activists, lawyers and anyone interested in the fate of the human rights movement today will have to grapple. -- Mark Mazower, author of No Enchanted Palace: The End of Imperialism and the Ideological Origins of the United NationsThe Last Utopia is the most important work on the history of human rights yet to have been written. Moyn's search for origins reads like a great detective story as he carefully sifts the evidence of where and when human rights displaced alternative political ideals. -- Paul Kahn, Yale UniversityHuman rights have always been with us--or so their most zealous supporters would have us believe. With surgical precision and forensic tenacity, Moyn reveals how recent and how contingent was the birth of human rights and how fraught has been its passage from 1970s antipolitics to present-day political program. -- David Armitage, author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global HistoryAnyone who truly cares about human rights should confront this bracing account. -- Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton UniversityThe way the phrase human rights is bandied about it sounds like an age-old concept. In fact, it was coined in English in the 1940s. Samuel Moyn examines the myths of its historical roots; most explicitly, the conflation of human rights with the revolutionary French and American concepts of droits de l'homme. The latter implies "a politics of citizenship at home"; the former "a politics of suffering abroad." His book teases out the legal and moral implications of this difference, using country-specific and international examples, in a way that leaves little hiding space for the self-serving usages of foreign ministers, supranational institutions and pollyannaish charities. -- Miriam Cosic * The Australian *Moyn has written an interesting and thought-provoking book which will annoy all the right people. -- Jonathan Sumption * Literary Review *It is not hard to imagine how impatient Bentham would have been with the notion of "human rights" that has grown so prominent over the past few decades. Samuel Moyn's The Last Utopia provides a succinct narrative of how that idea came to occupy the centre stage of so much international political discourse and activism. But the book also challenges the hegemony of human-rights-speak in ways that are nearly as combative as Bentham's polemical flights, though far more subtle and telling...There is a power and elegance to this book that my survey of it cannot convey. Over it hangs the question of whether the notion of human rights may still have a future, or if some other set of aspirations will take its place. Moyn stops well short of speculation. But it is a problem some activist or philosopher (or both) may yet pose in a way we cannot now imagine. -- Scott McLemee * The National *[A] brilliant and bracing new book...Richly researched and powerfully argued, this volume will be the starting point for future discussions of where human rights have been, why they look like they do, and how to think about them down the road. -- Yehudah Mirsky * Democracy Journal *Moyn argues that the origins of human rights are not in the places historians have traditionally looked--the French Revolution or postwar idealism--but in more recent developments...In refocusing our attention on the near history of human rights, The Last Utopia asks new and fertile questions...As Moyn points out, human rights, as never before, provide a framework for engaging with the lives of others. The events we associate with this development--1789, 1948, or the 1970s--influence our view of the present. Moyn has written the perfect history of human rights for the post-Bush era. -- Matt Moore * Dissent *As Samuel Moyn reminds us in The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, it is really just a few decades since human rights became the world's preferred vocabulary for talking about justice. In dating the birth of human rights, as an ideology and a movement, to the mid-1970s, Moyn is deliberately bucking a trend...Moyn argues convincingly, however, these attempts to create a "usable past" for human rights, well-intended though they are, actually distort the truth. To understand the real strengths and limitations of the idea of human rights, he argues, it is necessary to see it not as an ancient tradition but as "the last utopia" which emerged "in an age when other, previously more appealing utopias died."...The Last Utopia will shed important light on the actual history of our new global faith. -- Adam Kirsch * Barnes and Noble Review *[A] brilliantly illuminating book...Moyn's account of the utopian origins of the contemporary human-rights movement is impressively worked out and largely convincing...Human rights are not the last utopia--just the one we must presently live with. The pursuit of the impossible is too much a part of the modern Western tradition ever to be truly renounced. The idea that utopianism will disappear is itself a utopian dream. The most that can be hoped for is that the piety which surrounds human rights will be tempered from time to time with a little skeptical doubt. It is hard to think of a better start than Moyn's seminal study -- John Gray * National Interest *[A] provocatively revisionist history. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Moyn is a highly intelligent, markedly astute commentator. No possible viewpoint eludes his vigilance. He gives the impression of being suave in nature and comprehensive in awareness. This book, as a result, is a bravura performance by a leading light in an apparently crowded and busy field. -- Bradley Winterton * Taipei Times *There is a sense in which the conception of human rights that Moyn documents in this important book is already obsolete. Many of the worst human rights violations of recent years have not been perpetrated by sovereign states. Instead, they are the work of non-state actors: terrorists, militias, or simply criminal gangs...Moyn's contribution is to prove that human rights are not a fixed truth awaiting discovery, but rather an ideology subject to periodic renovation. If the idea of human rights is to survive, it must help us meet the challenges of our own time. Otherwise, it will join other utopian ideologies as the relics of the twentieth century. -- Samuel Goldman * New Criterion *Myth-busting. * Times Higher Education *[Moyn] argues elegantly and forcefully that the dominance of the nation-state in rights thinking made it impossible for the creators of the UN, the protagonists of the Cold War, and the participants in decolonization to conceptualize a world built on individual rights. This view emerged only in the 1970s, creating an entirely new, morality-based utopianism that was unimaginable until previously existing utopian notions no longer seemed plausible. The book, a triumph of originality, scholarship, concision, and bold conceptualization, has a superb bibliographical essay and will be wonderful to teach. A genuinely thrilling account of the modern history of human rights. -- S. N. Katz * Choice *The Last Utopia supplies a detailed, subtle, and in many ways convincing account of the human-rights "surge." Moyn's case for a 1970s turning-point is a strong one and occupies the best chapters in the book. -- Robin Blackburn * New Left Review *Samuel Moyn's book is an erudite and impressive intellectual history, portraying the core principle of contemporary human rights--that individual rights transcend state sovereignty--as a strikingly recent invention. Moyn shows that this moral conception contradicts many of the ostensible roots from which conventional accounts see human rights growing...Moyn's reassessment is groundbreaking and insightful. -- Clifford Bob * American Historical Review *Moyn's revisionist history is an argument for looking at the concept of human rights as a fairly new phenomenon, dating to the 1970s. While discounting the idea's role in shaping society in earlier centuries, he provides a great primer on the evolution of a revolutionary idea. -- Gal Beckerman * The Week *Samuel Moyn's The Last Utopia is a major contribution to the history of twentieth-century human rights, but at the same time a salutary inquiry into the tensions between the rights of citizens as members of sovereign nation-states and the post-national or extra-national rights claims of humans. Moyn has produced a rich, fertile and challenging study of the modern history of rights...Moyn has shown that the history of human rights was a precarious, contingent, protracted and uneven development...If natural rights died as a consequence of secularization, can human rights decline with the erosion of Western liberalism and the securitization of the modern state? With the rise and fall of utopian dreams, academic opinions about the prospects of human rights may differ--however, from now on taking rights seriously means reading Moyn seriously. -- Bryan S. Turner * Contemporary Sociology *

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Book Synopsis''Joshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader.'' - GRETA THUNBERG Imprisoned on 2 December 2020 for the third time, read Joshua Wong''s urgent and powerful story - the Hong Konger fighting for democracy.INTRODUCTION BY AI WEIWEI, FOREWORD BY CHRIS PATTEN Unfree Speech is Joshua''s urgent call for us to defend our democratic values, whoever we are.It chronicles Joshua''s path to activism, collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner, and closes with a powerful and urgent manifesto for us to defend our democracies at time of global flux and change.Joshua Wong made history when he was 14. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged the first ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education - and won. Since then, he led the Umbrella Movement, founded a political party, and rallied the international community around the Hong Kong protests, which saw 2 million people take to the streets. Now, he is in jail again. His actions have sparked worldwide attention and earned him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, as he continues to fight for what he believes in. His message is clear: when we stay silent, no one is safe. When we free our speech, our voice becomes one. ''If we want freedom, we need to learn from Hong Kong. With values, tactics, and courage, Joshua Wong shows us the way.'' - Timothy Snyder, bestselling author of On Tyranny''A guide to mobilising for democracy and representation in and far beyond Hong Kong.'' - Julia Lovell, award-winning author of Maoism- The Times Book of the Week - - Observer Book of the Week - - Named by the Financial Times as one of the 50 people who shaped the decade - Trade ReviewJoshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader. Together we are one loud voice that cannot be silenced. * Greta Thunberg, climate change activist and bestselling author of No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference *If we want freedom, we need to learn from Hong Kong. With values, tactics, and courage, Joshua Wong shows us the way. * Timothy Snyder, historian and bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom *Joshua Wong represents a new generation of rebel. All they require and demand is a single value: freedom. * Ai Weiwei, artist and activist *One of the most prominent political activists in the world ... a powerful insight into the turbulence on the city's streets that made world headlines * Rana Mitter, Sunday Times *A call to arms for the Snapchat generation ... This book is a memoir of an extraordinary decade in which Wong went from a nerdy obsession with Marvel comics to a Netflix documentary in which he was characterised as a superhero for democracy. * Tim Adams, The Observer (Book of the Week) *

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Book Synopsis A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn''t built for all of us and of one woman''s activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann''s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy Heumann began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a fire hazard to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher''s license, to leading the section 504 sit-in that led to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Judy''s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people around the globe.Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann''s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.Trade ReviewJudy's advocacy for disability rights began as a fight for her own future and then, as a leader of the movement, spanned the nation and the globe. * Hillary Clinton *Judy's story has shaken me to the core. For the first time, I see myself in someone else. Her fierce advocacy and work changing the laws around disability rights have undeniably paved the way for me to achieve what I have today. . . . A must-read. * Ali Stroker, Tony Award–winning actress *A marvelous memoir by a disability hero who has paved the way for many of us. Full of fascinating stories from the disability rights movement, this book will guide future leaders as we work toward a barrier-free world. * Haben Girma, author of the bestseller Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law *

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Book SynopsisShe concludes with a provocative analysis of Forrest Gump, identifying the popular film as a retelling of post-World War II Southern history.Trade ReviewA resourceful, imaginative, sure-handed analysis by an author who knows both how movies and television get made and how to get at what those products mean. -- Thomas Cripps Journal of Southern History This text would be an excellent place for readers who have very little background in film or media history to begin delving into the ongoing discussion of how much reality drives media and how much media drives reality. -- Dana L. Hettich Southern Historian The best book I have found that discusses popular cinema and the American South... Graham's is a groundbreaking study that locates both blacks and whites in post-World War II cultural history. Her scholarly monograph contributes significantly to historical and film studies... Graham's book is lively, aesthetically informed, and teeming with insightful observations about a variety of topics: white women in race-conscious films; the 'anarchic physicality' of the redneck; the centrality of the 'cracker' to our understanding of American racism; the southern delinquent as social activist; the corrupt southern lawman and the redemptive southern lawyer. -- Sharon Monteith Scope Provides a perfect critical lens through which to appreciate what lies behind all the representations of the South flashing across the screen... In this meticulously researched and accessibly written book, [Allison Graham] covers such issues as the eugenics movement and class politics, white women's sexuality, the star personae of Elvis and Andy Griffith, and the political power of Southern populists. Her methodology is part of what makes the book so readable: it's interdisciplinary but not jargon-laden, drawing on the most exciting recent academic studies in cinema, culture, class, history, sociology, whiteness, gender, sexuality, and politics. The close readings in the book are never so detailed that they become tedious, but even for readers unfamiliar with the primary sources, Graham's analysis is persuasive and fascinating to read. There is no way to adequately summarize all the ingenious bits of reading pleasure in this book. -- Julia Leyda Bright Lights Film Journal Provides detailed analysis of interactions among race, gender, and, crucially, class, often neglected in cultural studies. It draws upon an enormous range of evidence. Seemingly unlikely material such as 1950s films on teenage delinquency is convincingly woven into the analysis... Not least, the book is leavened with humor in a way that makes the argument more compelling... This book provides new insights, showing how varied and subtle is the encoding of major events and struggles. The argument is complex yet accessible, making it an invaluable teaching aid. It is a major contribution to scholarship on racism and the civil rights movement in America. -- John A. Silk Journal of American History Probing, provocative, lively... Graham's often original readings and entertaining renderings [of films and television shows]... chart the tangled route whereby race becomes subsumed by class and then rediscovered. She reaches widely in her literary, film, and television references, which she juxtaposes with civil rights events to suggest how the former 'framed' the latter but also how film and television fiction sometimes offered a competing narrative as to race and civil rights... Graham has written a book very much worth reading. It is at once entertaining and instructive, and it makes 'real' the reel South as no other book to date. -- Randall M. Miller American Historical Review In a series of interlocking essays, Graham deftly explores the ways Hollywood filmmakers and television producers tried to reformulate stock southern characters in light of rapidly changing social relations... A fascinating and compelling cultural history that should be of use to a wide array of scholars. -- Patrick D. Jones American Studies Perceptive... A sophisticated analysis of films produced during the civil rights era... Readers who wish to understand the ways popular media buttress conservative assessments of race in American life will do well to digest Graham's helpful volume. -- Andrew M. Manis Georgia Historical Quarterly She restores to our field of view media texts of real complexity that have been overlooked by previous analyses... An often poetic and crisply edited long essay. -- Kevin Jack Hagopian Journal of Communication 2005Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Remapping DogpatchChapter 1 "The Purest of God's Creatures": White Women, Blood Pollution, and Southern Sexuality Chapter 2 Sentimental Educations: Romance, Race, and White Redemption Chapter 3 Natural Acts: Hillbillies, Delinquents, and the Disappearing Psyche Chapter 4 Reeducating the Southerner: Elvis, Rednecks, and Hollywood's "White Negro" Chapter 5 Civil Rights Films and the New Red Menace: The Legacy of the 1960sNotes Essay on Sources Index

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of Ethnic Conflict in World Politics is an introduction to a new era in which civil society, states, and international actors attempt to channel ethnic challenges to world order and security into conventional politics. From Africa''s post-colonial rebellions in the 1960s and 1970s to anti-immigrant violence in the 1990s the authors survey the historical, geographic, and cultural diversity of ethnopolitical conflict. Using an analytical model to elucidate four well-chosen case studies?the Kurds, the Miskitos, the Chinese in Malaysia, and the Turks in Germany?the authors give students tools for analyzing emerging conflicts based on the demands of nationalists, indigenous peoples, and immigrant minorities throughout the world. The international community has begun to respond more quickly and constructively to these conflicts than it did to civil wars in divided Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda by using the emerging doctrines of proactive peacemaking and peace enforcem

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Book SynopsisHuman Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of U.S. human rights policy.The proper place of human rights and fundamental freedoms in U.S. foreign policy has long been debated among scholars, politicians, and the American public. Clair Apodaca argues that the history of U.S.human rights policy unfolds as a series of prevarications that are the result of presidential preferences, along with the conflict and cooperation among bureaucratic actors.Through a series of chapters devoted to U.S. presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to the present, she delivers a comprehensive historical, social, and cultural context to understand the development and implementation of U.S. human rights policy. For each administration, she pays close attention to how ideology, bureaucratic politics, lobbying, and competition affect the inclusion or exclusion of human rights in the economic and military aid allocation decisions of the United States. She further demonstrates that from the inception of U.S. human rights policy, presidents have attempted to tell only part of the truth or to reformulate the truth by redefining the meaning of the terms human rights, democracy, or torture, for example. In this way, human rights policy has been about prevarication.Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy is a key text for students, which will appeal to all readers who will find a historically informed, argument driven account of the erratic evolution of U.S. human rights policy since the Nixon Administration.Trade Review"This incisive book offers an accessible and informative history of the political machinery behind US human rights policy. In these precarious times for world politics and the United States' role in them, this is critical reading for those wanting to understand the trajectory of US human rights policy. A long and varied trajectory—sometimes cyclical and sometimes oscillating—that Apodaca carefully charts from the eras of Nixon to Trump." — Phillip M. Ayoub, Associate Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs, Occidental College "Clair Apodaca’s new book, Human Rights and US Foreign Policy, offers an unsparing dissection of the role of human rights in U.S. foreign policy under every president from Nixon forward. Presidents of both parties come in for justified, and well documented, criticism. The book argues that presidents have employed "prevarication" -- ambiguity, secrecy, misdirection, and deceit – as a means of avoiding or even degrading human rights principles in U.S. foreign policy. It is not just a story of presidents: Apodaca carefully assesses the actions (and inactions) of Congress and the administrative agencies as well. Though her critiques of the American record are incisive, Apodaca argues in the concluding chapter that human rights, despite recent challenges, will remain an important element of U.S. foreign policy. If you care about foreign policy or human rights, read this book." — Wayne Sandholtz, John A. McCone Chair in International Relations, University of Southern California "Human Rights and US Foreign Policy: Prevarications and Evasions is a must-read for scholars of human rights and U.S. foreign policy. Clair Apodaca’s ambitious research shows the trajectory of U.S. human rights foreign policy over the past 50 years, paying particular attention to how abiding questions about human rights have persisted across issue areas, between branches of government and over nine presidential administrations. This thoughtful and highly engaging research will encourage readers to reflect on the past half-century of U.S. human rights foreign policy and contemplate the future of human rights and the U.S.’s role therein." — Courtney Hillebrecht, Samuel Clark Waugh Professor of International Relations, Associate Professor of Political Science"This comprehensive history of U.S. human rights policy "follows the money" to offer a fresh and sober analysis of the perpetual struggle between architects of national security and advocates of democratic aspirations. Apodaca's text will be a welcome guide to students of human rights, American politics, and international relations." — Alison Brysk, Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance, University of California, Santa Barbara"This incisive book offers an accessible and informative history of the political machinery behind US human rights policy. In these precarious times for world politics and the United States' role in them, this is critical reading for those wanting to understand the trajectory of US human rights policy. A long and varied trajectory—sometimes cyclical and sometimes oscillating—that Apodaca carefully charts from the eras of Nixon to Trump." — Phillip M. Ayoub, Associate Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs, Occidental College"Clair Apodaca’s new book, Human Rights and US Foreign Policy, offers an unsparing dissection of the role of human rights in U.S. foreign policy under every president from Nixon forward. Presidents of both parties come in for justified, and well documented, criticism. The book argues that presidents have employed "prevarication" -- ambiguity, secrecy, misdirection, and deceit – as a means of avoiding or even degrading human rights principles in U.S. foreign policy. It is not just a story of presidents: Apodaca carefully assesses the actions (and inactions) of Congress and the administrative agencies as well. Though her critiques of the American record are incisive, Apodaca argues in the concluding chapter that human rights, despite recent challenges, will remain an important element of U.S. foreign policy. If you care about foreign policy or human rights, read this book." — Wayne Sandholtz, John A. McCone Chair in International Relations, University of Southern California "Human Rights and US Foreign Policy: Prevarications and Evasions is a must-read for scholars of human rights and U.S. foreign policy. Clair Apodaca’s ambitious research shows the trajectory of U.S. human rights foreign policy over the past 50 years, paying particular attention to how abiding questions about human rights have persisted across issue areas, between branches of government and over nine presidential administrations. This thoughtful and highly engaging research will encourage readers to reflect on the past half-century of U.S. human rights foreign policy and contemplate the future of human rights and the U.S.’s role therein." — Courtney Hillebrecht, Samuel Clark Waugh Professor of International Relations, Associate Professor of Political Science"This comprehensive history of U.S. human rights policy "follows the money" to offer a fresh and sober analysis of the perpetual struggle between architects of national security and advocates of democratic aspirations. Apodaca's text will be a welcome guide to students of human rights, American politics, and international relations." — Alison Brysk, Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of Contents1. The Battlefield of Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy 2. U.S. Human Rights Policy during the Cold War: A Historical Overview 3. U.S. Human Rights Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: A Decade of Lost Opportunities 4. The Prevaricator in Chief: George W. Bush (2001–2009) 5. The Prevaricator of Change: Barak Obama (2009–2017) 6. A Prevaricator who old the Truth: Donald Trump (2017–) 7. The Future of U.S. Human Rights Policy

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Book SynopsisThe history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in secret.Trade Review"Schechter was 25 then, and attending the London School of Economics. He flew from 'swinging London' to apartheid Pretoria, his assignment to make mail drops to anti-apartheid activists and set off harmless 'poster bombs' at prearranged times to demonstrate the ANC remained a political force despite that country's harsh repression. Schechter's recollection, entitled 'The Day I Joined the Revolution' - which includes a poem he wrote at the time - is one of 37 revealing, firsthand accounts offered by people with similar assignments in "London Recruits"." --www.BuffaloNews.com

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Book SynopsisMerten Reglitz makes a case for a new human right to free Internet access, arguing it is crucial for protecting and advancing fundamental moral interests. He examines the risks the Internet poses to our most important rights if it is not safeguarded by public institutions.

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Book SynopsisIslam and Citizenship in Indonesia examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women's rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country and the third largest democracy in the world. The book shows that Muslim understandings of Islamic traditions and ethics have coevolved with the understanding and practice of democracy and citizen belonging. Following thirty-two years of authoritarian rule, in 1998 this sprawling Southeast Asian country returned to electoral democracy. The achievement brought with it, however, an upsurge in both the numbers and assertiveness of Islamist militias, as well as a sharp increase in violence against religious minorities. The resulting mobilizations have pitted the Muslim supporters of an Indonesian variety of inclusive citizenship against populist proponents of Islamist majoritarianism. Seen from this historical example, the book demonstrates that Muslim actors come to know and practice Islam inTrade Review"This book will be a standard reference for any future work on Islam and democracy in Indonesia or comparatively across the Muslim world. It is a culmination of more than two decades of work and experience addressing Islam, democratic politics, and society in Indonesia."– Vedi Hadiz, University of Melbourne, Australia"Robert W. Hefner is the leading scholar of Islam and democracy in Indonesia – the demographically largest and intellectually most vibrant Muslim-majority country. This book will be considered as Hefner’s magnum opus – a culmination of his half-a-century-long examination of diverse religious views and practices as well as their political implications in Indonesia’s rural and urban settings. Islam and Citizenship analyzes the complex relations between Muslim politics, democracy, and public ethics with a nuanced attention to the Indonesian context while also providing insights for the rest of the Muslim world. It masterfully covers contested issues such as sharia, gender relations, and education. This groundbreaking book will shape the field of religion and politics for many years to come."– Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University, USA. Author of Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison "Hefner’s book puts Muslims at the center of the study of Islam in Indonesia, which he describes as having a ‘complex and agonistic plurality’. This is a welcome intervention in contemporary commentary on Islam and politics, taking readers on a multisited and multidimensional journey. Deploying an erudite lens that combines his ethnographic vision with comparative politics and sociology, he finds a concern with shared ideas of public ethics at the heart of contemporary contestations in the Muslim public sphere. Care of the social emerges as a key element accounting for the tenaciousness of Indonesian democracy, in the face of the conservative turn."– Kathryn Robinson, The Australian National University“This book manuscript – a magnum opus by arguably the most esteemed scholar of Islam in Indonesia and among the keenest thinkers on Islam, democracy, and comparative political philosophy more generally – is destined to be a classic. The depth of socio-historical knowledge of Indonesia, matched with an impressive engagement with an incredible range of social science theorists in anthropology, political science, and elsewhere, results in a complex portrait of religious politics a quarter century after the downfall of Suharto’s authoritarian regime.”– James B. Hoesterey, Emory University, USATable of Contents1. Introduction: Islam and Citizenship in Democratic Indonesia; 2. Citizenship Amidst Resurgence; 3. Religionization and the Politics of Recognition; 4. Exclusivist Islamism and the "Conservative Turn"; 5. Islamic Education and Ethical Prioritization; 6. Women and Gender Contention; 7. Whose Shariah? Religious Politics and Citizen Ethics; 8. Conclusion: The Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics; References Cited; Index

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Book SynopsisPepin-Neff coins the term âTolerable Inequalityâ to examine the ways in which politicians and political actors use the policy process as a tool to make inequality acceptable as a way of keeping power and avoiding penalties.Power is built on the illusion of differences. The public policy process is used to reinforce the illusions of inferiority and superiority that help to keep power in the hands of the powerful. Tolerable Inequality reinforces these differences by diverting attention away from issues that would give marginalized people power, reducing differences between public expectations and reality, and policy reactions that fortify existing social status. The three tactics of Tolerable Inequality include: focused inattention and inaction, deviation harmonization of differences between expectations and perceived reality, and equality governance, where equality is distributed in the policy process relative to conditional compliance and comparative identity. The book explores this concept within the context of LGBTQ+ policy and presents a framework that allows the public to engage in the policy process in ways that highlight the role of expected political penalties in order to reclaim policymaking in the public interest.A comprehensive text for researchers and students in LGBTQ studies, American Studies, Policy Studies, and Legislative Studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Book SynopsisAmerica is turning away from support for democrats in Arab countries in favor of ''pragmatic'' deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islamist extremism. For too many policymakers, Arab democracy is seen as a dangerous luxury. In Realism and Democracy, Elliott Abrams marshals four decades of experience as an American official and leading Middle East expert and shows that deals with tyrants will not work. Islamism is an idea that can only be defeated by a better idea: democracy. Through a careful analysis of America''s record of democracy promotion in the region and beyond, from the Cold War to the Obama years, Abrams proves that repression helps Islamists beat democrats, while political openings offer moderates and liberals a chance. This book makes a powerful argument for an American foreign policy that combines practical politics and idealism and refuses to abandon those struggling for democracy and human rights in the Arab world.Trade Review'Elliott Abrams has done the country another important service. This outstanding book reminds us that the enduring power of America is that, at our best, we see our interests as our values, and our values as our interests. Now more than ever, Americans and their leaders need to understand that support for human rights has been, and should remain, a key pillar of US foreign policy. This book could not be more timely or more significant.' Senator John McCain, United States Congress'Elliott Abrams gives us a brilliant review of the fight for freedom, showing with clarity what works and what does not. But even more, he highlights the possibilities for progress that may be gained from a determined, long-term strategy advocating democracy and human rights.' The Honorable George P. Shultz, Hoover Institution, Stanford University'A powerful and persuasive argument that realism as well as American ideals should lead us to support the struggle for freedom.' Joseph Lieberman, former US Senator from Connecticut, Senior Counsel, Kasowitz, Benson, and Torres'Since the 1980s, no US official has done more to advance the cause of democracy and human rights than Elliott Abrams. Here bringing his vast experience to bear on American policy in the Middle East, he makes a powerful, pragmatic case for promoting democratic reform in Egypt and other Arab autocracies. Sure to be controversial in the best sense - his arguments cannot be ignored.' Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute, author of The World America Made'America's greatest asset in world politics is its association with freedom. Elliott Abrams brings unique experience as an American official who understood the power of freedom - and realized that an American strategy to advance democracy advances American interests. Here he explains how men like Scoop Jackson, George Shultz, and Ronald Reagan worked to support liberty and democracy - and how to build on their legacy today, including in the Arab world. Every official in the State Department should be required to read this book.' Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency, human rights activist and former political prisoner in the Soviet Union'(Abrams) has written a study of idealism vs. realism in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the end of the Obama years. The book is also, more specifically and more pointedly, a summary of the current debate over the proper role of democracy-building in US policy in the Middle East … Mr Trump should read.' The Wall Street Journal'In the fascinating introduction to this book, Abrams traces his intellectual development and explores the roots of his worldview … Abrams forcefully rejects the argument that the so-called war on terror compels Washington to countenance Arab autocracies that join in the fight.' Foreign Affairs'What makes especially edifying anything that Elliott Abrams writes on foreign policy - in addition to his insight, intellect, and wit - is that thanks to his Democrat-turned-Republican political pedigree, he has been involved in almost all of these fierce debates since the early 1970s … His account reflects an insider's sensitivity, nuance, and appreciation of the human motivations that drove leaders at critical moments … Despite his career as a bare-knuckled activist, Abrams' history of human rights and democracy in modern American foreign policy is rigorously analytical and passionately dispassionate: a true tour de force.' Mosaic Magazine'Elliott Abrams makes a powerful argument.' Jewish Press'Both a useful assessment of Arab Spring and what came next, and an insightful commentary on the nature of a world power and those who serve it.' Jerusalem Post'A convincing case not only that democracy can succeed in Arab nations, but also that the United States has a crucial role to play in making that happen.' Atlanta Jewish TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Arab Spring; 2. Arab and Muslim democracy; 3. Will the Islamists always win?; 4. The trouble with US policy; 5. What is to be done?

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Book SynopsisThis Element is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics. It offers readers venues in which to consider the history and contingency of ideas like power, race, patriarchy and revolution of Myanmar.Table of ContentsA political lexicon: how come?; 1. Politics; 2. Power; 3. Dictatorship; 4. Federalism; 5. Sovereignty; 6. Citizen; 7. Race; 8. Buddhism; 9. Genocide; 10. Impunity; 11. Interrogation; 12. Revolution; 13. Reform; 14. Development; 15. Patriarchy; 16. Freedom; References.

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Book SynopsisReimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror. Looking through the lenses of theory, history, law, and policy, the essays in this volume illuminate the ways in which liberal democracy suffered at the hands of policymakers in the name of national security. The contributors, who are leading experts and practitioners in fields ranging from political theory to evolutionary biology, discuss the vast expansion of executive powers, the excessive reliance secrecy, and the exploration of questionable legal territory in matters of detention, criminal justice, targeted killings, and warfare. This book gives the reader an eye-opening window onto the historical precedents and lasting impact the security state has had on civil liberties, human rights and, the rule of law in the name of the war on terror.Trade Review'In Reimagining the National Security State, Karen J. Greenberg has brought together a veritable who's who of scholars and practitioners to help us understand how and why the post-9/11 state of exception favoring security over liberty has increasingly become the norm in American politics. This collection makes for bracing, disturbing, and essential reading for anyone who hopes that we can reset that balance.' Michael C. Desch, Packey J. Dee Professor of International affairs and Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center'This book brings together some of our finest political thinkers to consider what has happened to the dream of liberal democracy. Has the West permanently lost its way? Is the security state a necessary, perhaps temporary step toward the salvation of democracy in the face of terrorism and the challenges of rising autocratic powers? Or does the security state represent the surrender of values that were presumed to be the core of liberalism in the West? These questions are illuminatingly addressed in this valuable collection.' Larry Wright, author of The Looming Tower and The Terror Years'This collection of outstanding essays makes clear that America's war on terrorism is undermining its liberal democratic traditions and institutions. Anyone who doubts the Founding Fathers' warnings about the dangers of fighting endless wars should read this important book.' John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsForeword Donald Glascoff; Part I. The National Security State: Power and Purpose in Perspective: 1. Who's checking whom? Michael J. Glennon; 2. The deep state vs the failed state: illusions and realities in the pursuit of security John Gray; 3. A tale of two countries: fundamental rights in the 'war on terror' Douglas Cassel; 4. The national security state gone awry: returning to first principles Loch K. Johnson; Part II. Tracking the Decline: 5. The illiberal experiment: how Guantanamo became a defining American institution Michel Paradis; 6. National security and court deference: ramifications and worrying trends Laura Pitter; 7. The zealotry of 'terrorism' Thomas A. Durkin; 8. Re-imagining the national security state: illusions and constraints – by the numbers Joshua L. Dratel; 9. Beyond counterinsurgency paradigm of governing: letting go of prediction and the illusion of an internal enemy Bernard E. Harcourt; 10. Re-establishing the rule of law as national security Mary Ellen O'Connell; Part III. Novel Paths Forward: 11. Rethinking the national security state from an evolutionary perspective: a reconnaissance David Sloan Wilson; 12. Concluding remarks John Berger; Select bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten by a former UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, this book draws on extensive research in the field. It covers theoretical, conceptual, and practical aspects of the theme, in a coherent analysis of elements that influence or are influenced by these human rights.

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Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America recounts the extraordinary story of how tens of thousands of African Americans overcame segregation, exercised their right to vote, and improved their economic standing, and how millions more black people, along with those of different races, continue to fight for racial justice in the wake of continuing police killings of unarmed black men and women.In a concise, chronological fashion, Bruce Dierenfield shows how concerted pressure in a variety of forms has helped realize a more just society for many blacks, though racism is far from being extinguished. The new edition has been fully revised to include an entire chapter on the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. In addition, the black experience in the slave and Jim Crow periods has been expanded, and greater emphasis has been placed throughout on black agency. The book also features revised maps, new primary documentTable of ContentsPart One: Up From Slavery 1. The Jim Crow South Part Two: Seeds of Change 2. Origins of the Black Freedom Struggle 3. The Making of Massive Resistance Part Three: The Assault on Jim Crow 4. Freedom Walkers 5. The Wayward Lieutenant 6. Freedom’s on the Menu 7. Freedom Riders 8. The Battle of Ole Miss 9. Bombingham 10. Let Freedom Ring Part Four: The Voting Rights Campaign 11. Freedom Summer 12. Bloody Sunday Part Five: The Ghetto Explodes 13. Black Power Part Six: The Freedom Struggle Resumes 14. Black Lives Matter Part Seven: Documents

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Book SynopsisAN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER and NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption.Powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening. -Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistCrushingly powerful, Long Time Coming is an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain. -Isabel Wilkerson, bestselling author of CasteFormidable, compelling...has much to offer on our nation's crucial need for racial reckoning and the way forward. -Bryan Stevenson, bestselling author of Just Mercy The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nati

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Book SynopsisA startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the livingTrade Review"People Love Dead Jews reminds us that Jewishness is not a museum, a graveyard, or a heritage site but a lively ongoing conversation at a long table that stretches before and behind us." -- David Mikics - The Tablet"A fascinating read..." -- Keren David - The Jewish Chronicle"Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews [is] an essential sequel to David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count" -- Simon Schama, via Twitter"So necessary and so disquieting… People Love Dead Jews is an outstanding book with a bold mission. It criticizes people, artworks, and public institutions that few others dare to challenge." -- Yaniv Iczkovits - The New York Times Book Review"Extremely engaging... Horn will make you think." -- Jeffrey Salkin - Washington Post"Dara Horn has an uncommon mastery of the literary essay, and she applies it here with a relentless, even furious purpose. Horn makes well-worn debates—on Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, for instance—newly provocative and urgent. Her best essays are by turns tragic and comic, and her magnificent mini biography of Varian Fry alone justifies paying the full hardcover price." -- Tom Reiss, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo"This is a beautiful book, and in its particular genre—nonfiction meditations on the murder of Jews, particularly in the Holocaust, and the place of the dead in the American imagination—it can have few rivals. In fact, I can’t think of any." -- Martin Peretz - Wall Street Journal"[Horn] wants a more direct reckoning with Jew hatred and its consequences." -- 100 Notable Books of 2021 - The New York Times

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Book SynopsisThis book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe - the international sex trade. For decades, the liberal left has been conflicted as to whether pro-prostitution activists or abolitionists hold the correct view, and debates are ongoing as to who holds the key to the solutions facing the women and girls involved. Over the course of two years, Bindel conducted 250 interviews in almost 40 countries, cities and states, traveling around Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and East and South Africa. Visiting legal brothels all around the world, Bindel got to know pimps, pornographers, survivors of the sex trade, and the women being sold by men classed as ''business entrepreneurs''. Whilst meeting feminist abolitionists, pro-prostitution campaigners, police and government officials, and the men who drive the demand, Bindel uncovered the lies, mythology and criminTable of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter 1. The Abolitionist Movement.- Chapter 2. The ‘Sex Workers’ Rights’ Movement.- Chapter 3. Sanitising the Sex Trade.- Chapter 4. Realities & Consequences of Legalisation.- Chapter 5. The Invisible Man.- Chapter 6. Human Rights and Wrongs.- Chapter 7. Aiding the Fight for Legalisation: AIDS & HIV.- Chapter 8. Fighting for Rights, or Parasites?.- Chapter 9. Sex Trade Academics.- Chapter 10. A Queer Defence of the Sex Trade.- Chapter 11. Surviving the Sex Trade.- Conclusion: The Way Forward.

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Book SynopsisWell-selected and authoritative, Macmillan Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.Compiled in response to student need, Core Documents on European and International Human Rights is designed to provide essential materials in an easily navigable format at a value-for-money price.Undergraduate students taking elective courses in human rights law as part of their LLB

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Book SynopsisA comparative analysis of far-right politics across Europe and the Middle East with a focus on gender and sexuality.

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Book SynopsisThis fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel's classic study explains and defends the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining philosophical, legal and political approaches, Nickel explains international human rights law and addresses questions of justification and feasibility. New, revised edition of James Nickel''s classic study. Explains and defends the conception of human rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and subsequent treaties in a clear and lively style. Covers fundamental freedoms, due process rights, social rights, and minority rights. Updated throughout to include developments in law, politics, and theory since the publication of the first edition. New features for this edition include an extensive bibliography and a chapter on human rights and terrorism. Trade Review"This is an outstanding book. Nickel sets a new standard for clear thinking on this crucial topic. No book comes close as an introduction to the theory of human rights." Leif Wenar, University of Sheffield "The new edition of James Nickel's classic work is a major contribution to the philosophical study of human rights. The book will be widely admired for its clarity and range and for the power and creativity of its arguments." John Tasioulas, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Contemporary Idea of Human Rights. 2. Human Rights as Rights. 3. Making Sense of Human Rights. 4. Starting Points for Justifying Rights. 5. A Framework for Justifying Specific Rights. 6. The List Question. 7. Due Process Rights and Terrorist Emergencies. 8. Economic Liberties as Fundamental Freedoms. 9. Social Rights as Human Rights. 10. Minority Rights. 11. Eight Responses to the Relativist. 12. The Good Sense in Human Rights. Bibliography and References. Appendixes. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The European Convention on Human Rights. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Index

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Book SynopsisRevised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis______________________________________''An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin''s Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance'' - Sunday Times''Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Lucas''s outstanding book'' - Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard______________________________________ While most of the world was lauding the stability and economic growth that Vladimir Putin's ex-KGB regime had brought to Russia, Edward Lucas was ringing alarm bells. First published in 2008 and since revised, The New Cold War remains the most insightful and informative account of Russia today. It depicts the regime's crushing of independent institutions and silencing of critics, taking Russia far away from the European mainstream. It highlights the Kremlin's use of the enerTrade ReviewSome dismissed this book as scaremongering. They should re-read it now * Radoslaw Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland *Essential reading * Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag *‘Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Lucas's outstanding book' * Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard *‘An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' * Sunday Times *‘Perceptive and accurate ... the KGB regime is attempting to restore the Soviet Empire' * Vladimir Bukovsky, former Soviet dissident *‘If you need a convincing argument for a joined-up EU foreign policy, look no further' * Angus Macqueen, Guardian *

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the history of social care, international comparisons and lived experience, this vital book outlines a different vision of social care as an essential part of England's economic and social infrastructure that enables people to live good lives.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. A Brief History: How We Got Here 3. Understanding Social Care 4. Learning from the Past 5. Learning from Abroad 6. Who Cares? 7. A 1948 Moment? The Politics and Process of Reform 8. A New Future for Social Care

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

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Book SynopsisIncluding thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.

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Book SynopsisUsing the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships: between commodity and community, abstraction and context, and private enclosure and the public square.

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Book SynopsisExplores of social justice, citizenship, and community in the context of data-driven urbanism

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Book SynopsisA timely, transnational examination of the institutions in Mexico, Canada, and the United States that engage migrant populations in becoming agents of change for immigrant rights while holding government authorities accountable.Trade ReviewAccountability Across Borders offers a rich set of contributions that are needed to conceptualize American 'ethnic' history beyond the borders of the United States, toward one that is transnational, multiply defined, and takes seriously the question of migration, rights, and social movements. This anthology offers up a nuanced regional perspective on immigration that is a must-read for transnational advocates, non-governmental organizations, governmental organizations, immigration scholars, and any person who is interested in taking up immigration theory, policy, and practice. * Journal of American Ethnic History *This multidisciplinary essay collection adopts a transnational lens to examine the effects of migrant civil society, migration law, and enforcement agencies on migrants’ rights on both sides of the border in areas like employment, health, and education. The essays demonstrate that civic spaces are important not only to advocate for migrant rights in destination countries, but also to hold the governments of origin countries accountable to their nationals living abroad...With their wide-ranging approach to the study of migrant advocacy, these essays highlight the importance of examining both sides of the border. * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Introduction: Enforcing Rights across Borders (Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada ) Chapter 1. Mexican Migrant Civil Society: Propositions for Discussion (Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado ) Part I: North America Chapter 2. Global Governance and the Protection of Migrant Workers’ Rights in North America: In Search of a Theoretical Framework (José Ma. Serna de la Garza ) Chapter 3. The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation and the Challenges to Protecting Low-Wage Migrant Workers (Xóchitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson ) Part II. Mexico Chapter 4. Mexican Migrant Federalism and Transnational Rights Advocacy (Adriana Sletza Ortega Ramírez ) Chapter 5. Rebuilding Justice We Can All Trust: The Plight of Migrant Victims (Ana Lorena Delgadillo, Alma García, and Rodolfo Córdova Alcaraz ) Chapter 6. With Dual Citizenship Comes Double Exclusion: US-Mexican Children and Their Struggle to Access Rights in Mexico (Mónica Jacobo-Suárez ) Part III. Canada Chapter 7. Transnational Labor Solidarity versus State-Managed Coercion: UFCW Canada, Mexico, and the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (Andrea Galvez, Pablo Godoy, and Paul Meinema ) Chapter 8. Assembling Noncitizen Access to Education in a Sanctuary City: The Place of Public School Administrator Bordering Practices (Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring ) Part IV. United States Chapter 9. Indigenous Maya Families from Yucatán in San Francisco: Hemispheric Mobility and Pedagogies of Diaspora (Patricia Baquedano-López ) Chapter 10. Binational Health Week: A Social Mobilization Program to Improve Latino Migrant Health (Liliana Osorio, Hilda Dávila, and Xóchitl Castañeda ) Chapter 11. “American in Every Way, Except for Their Papers”: How Mexico Supports Migrants’ Access to Membership in the United States (Alexandra Délano Alonso ) Epilogue: Theorizing State-Society Relations in a Multiscalar Context (Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada ) Editors and Contributors Index

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

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Book SynopsisPolice Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police deployed rigid notions of caste in their everyday tasks, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows.Kumar draws on previously unexplored police archives to enter the dusty streets and market squares where local constables walked, following their gaze and observing their actions towards potential subversives. Station records present a textured view of ordinary interactions between police and society, showing that state coercion was not only exceptional and spectacular; it was also subtle and continuous, woven into everyday life. The colonial police categorized Indian subjects based on caste to ensure the security of agriculture and trade, and thus the smooth running of the economy. Among policemen and among the objects of their coercive gaze, caste became a pTrade ReviewThis book contributes a great deal to the study of policing and to Tamil Nadu studies. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisShould workers ever lose their job because of their political views or affiliations? Should female employees be entitled to wear a headscarf in the workplace for religious reasons? Can it ever be right for an employer to dismiss someone for personal activities undertaken in their leisure time? What restrictions, if any, should be placed on the right to strike ?Engagingly written, this innovative new textbook provides an entry point for exploring these and other topical issues, enabling students to analyse the applicability of human rights to disputes between employers and workers in the UK. It offers an original perspective on the traditional topics of employment law as well as looking in greater depth at new issues, such as employees' use of social media or the enforcement of human rights in the gig economy.Uniquely, the book considers the most important international Conventions that are relevant for the law in the UK, especially the European Convention on H

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Book SynopsisExam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.- Enables students to plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner- Consolidates knowledge with clear and focused content coverage, organised into easy-to-revise chunks- Encourages active revision by closely combining historical content with related activities- Helps students build, practise and enhance their exam skills as they progress through activities set at three different levels- Improves exam technique through exam-style questions with sample answers and commentary from expert authors and teachers- Boosts historical knowledge with a useful glossary and timeline

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Book SynopsisThe first book by Anna J. Cooper, A Voice From the South, presents strong ideals supporting racial and gender equality as well as economic progress. It’s a forward-thinking narrative that highlights many disparities hindering the African American community. Anna J. Cooper was an accomplished educator who used her influence to encourage and elevate African Americans. With A Voice From the South, she delivers a poignant analysis of the country’s affairs as they relate to Black people, specifically Black women. She stresses the importance of education, which she sees as a great equalizer. Cooper considers it a necessary investment in not only the individual but the community. She also criticizes the depictions of African Americans in literature by some of the day’s most popular authors. She calls for more realistic portrayals that are both honest yet positive. Cooper provides an unflinching critique of mainstream America as it relates to the Black population. A Voice From the South broaches pivotal topics such as women’s rights, segregation and the need for higher education. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of A Voice From the South is both modern and readable.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the historiography of the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present. It considers how, and why, the study of African American history developed from being a marginalized subject in American universities and colleges at the start of the twentieth century to become one of the most extensively researched fields in American history today.There is analysis of the changing scholarly interpretations of African American leaders from Booker T. Washington through to Barack Obama. The impact and significance of the leading civil rights organizations are assessed, as well as the white segregationists who opposed them and the civil rights policies of presidential administrations from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump.The civil rights struggle is also discussed in the context of wider, political, social and economic changes in the United States and developments in popular culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Segregation and accommodation, 1895-19152 The Great Migration and the ‘New Negro’, 1915-19303 The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930-19454 The post-war civil rights movement, 1945-19655 Malcolm X and black power, 1960-19806 The new conservatism, 1980-20087 ‘An insubstantial pageant faded’: Obama and Trump, 2008-2020ConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisLGBT rights have become increasingly salient within the EU enlargement process as a litmus test for Europeanness. But the promotion of these norms has provided a basis for political contestation. This book interrogates the normative dimensions of the EU enlargement process, with special reference to LGBT politics. Reconceptualising Europeanisation, it argues that EU enlargement is a process of negotiated transformation in which EU policies and norms are (re)defined, translated and transformed. Empirically, it analyses the promotion of and resistance to LGBT equality norms in Serbia’s EU integration process, but it looks beyond policies to the impact of the negotiated transitions on lived experiences. Overall, the book raises important questions about the political and social consequences of Europeanisation. At its heart is one crucial question: what do we consider progress?Trade Review‘Coming in is an exceptional book, one that stitches together insights on Western Balkan queer politics and Europeanisation theory to deliver comprehensive rejoinders to both fields. It is impressive just how much Slootmaeckers's Serbian case teaches us about the intricacies of the complicated relationship – both in its potentialities and pitfalls – between the European Union and its candidate countries. Most importantly, Slootmaeckers goes beyond asking “why” some states adopt rights to normatively question what these rights mean for the people who experience them. This is a resoundingly successful effort that will benefit the literatures on tactical Europeanisation and the Western Balkans for the decisive years ahead.’Phillip Ayoub, Professor of International Relations, University College London‘Coming in provides an original and thought-provoking analysis of the promotion of LGBT rights by the EU during the long and winding road of accession preparations in Serbia. The EU is often regarded as a leader in promoting such rights, but as Slootmaeckers reveals, its values are not fixed – rather they are negotiated during the accession process between the EU and candidate countries. This book calls for a reconceptualisation of the EU’s behaviour during accession preparations and is essential reading for everyone in the field.’Paul Copeland, Reader in Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London‘This meticulous and subtle work looks at campaigns for LGBT equality and recognition, but it sheds light on a broader phenomenon known to people studying EU conditionality in prospective member states: when the EU makes a goal look like a condition, governments respond with gestures that are designed to look like compliance. Is this a step forwards for equality or not? Koen Slootmaeckers constructs a solid empirical case to guide readers through this enigma, weaving his narrative with substance, detail and sophistication.’Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology, University College London‘In Coming in, Koen Slootmaeckers traces the manifold ways in which the sexual politics and fight for LGBTQ rights in Serbia simultaneously influenced and were influenced by Serbia’s tumultuous and still unresolved accession to the European Union. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this book is an essential contribution to the study of both LGBTQ politics and the fraught politics of European Union enlargement.’Jelena Subotic, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University'Coming In provides a much-needed critical reappraisal of the Europeanisation of LGBT rights and EU enlargement policies, urging us to always interrogate the political motives behind legal change and whether “progress” translates into real-life improvements or further levels of exclusion for marginalised communities. At a time when geopolitical rhetoric and civilisational binaries appear to have been further normalised, Slootmaeckers’ call for self-reflexivity in EU foreign policy resonates and has implications that go well beyond the specific policy-area and geographical focus of this book.'Laura Luciani, LSE Review of Books'A valuable addition to the growing literature on LGBTIQ+ communities in Southeastern Europe. [...]Slootmaeckers’ newest contribution is unique because it offers a comprehensive yet succinct analysis of sexual politics, Europeanization, and policy making in relation to Serbia’s path towards European Union membership.' Aleksandar Rankovic, CEU Review of Books -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: rethinking Europeanisation and EU-Serbia relations1 Europeanisation as negotiated transitions: Towards a relational and transnational approach to EU enlargement2 Mapping the multi-layered normative structure of Serbia-EU relationsPart II: Adopting, resisting, and transforming law and practices3 Anti-discrimination policies: From the margins to differentiated politicisations4 Taking it to the streets: Belgrade Pride as a litmus test for Serbia’s EuropeanisationPart III: Looking beyond policy towards lived experiences5 The attitudinal panopticon and the limited implementation of the anti-discrimination framework6 The emergence of the Ghost Pride and the transnational dislocation of LGBT politicsConclusionEpilogueIndex

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