Human rights, civil rights Books
Cambridge University Press Forging a Convention for Crimes against Humanity
Book SynopsisCrimes against humanity were one of the three categories of crimes elaborated in the Nuremberg Charter. However, unlike genocide and war crimes, they were never set out in a comprehensive international convention. This book represents an effort to complete the Nuremberg legacy by filling this gap. It contains a complete text of a proposed convention on crimes against humanity in English and in French, a comprehensive history of the proposed convention, and fifteen original papers written by leading experts on international criminal law. The papers contain reflections on various aspects of crimes against humanity, including gender crimes, universal jurisdiction, the history of codification efforts, the responsibility to protect, ethnic cleansing, peace and justice dilemmas, amnesties and immunities, the jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals, the definition of the crime in customary international law, the ICC definition, the architecture of international criminal justice, modes of criminTrade Review'In closing, this is an outstanding and thought provoking work that will be an essential reference to academics, legal scholars, practitioners, human rights advocates and those who are engaged in the study and promotion of international criminal law. For international criminal law scholars especially, it will continue to be an essential tool for years to come.' Hilmi M. Zawati, Journal of International Criminal JusticeTable of ContentsPreface; Foreword - the crimes against humanity initiative; 1. Crimes against humanity and the responsibility to protect Gareth Evans; 2. History of efforts to codify crimes against humanity: from the charter of Nuremberg to the statute of Rome Roger S. Clark; 3. The universal repression of crimes against humanity before national jurisdictions: the need for a treaty-based obligation to prosecute Payam Akhavan; 4. Revisiting the architecture of crimes against humanity: almost a century in the making with gaps and ambiguities remaining - the need for a specialized convention M. Cherif Bassiouni; 5. The bright red thread: the politics of international criminal law - the West African experience - a case study: operation justice in Sierra Leone David Crane; 6. Gender-based crimes against humanity Valerie Oosterveld; 7. 'Chapeau elements' of crimes against humanity in the jurisprudence of the United Nations ad hoc tribunals Göran Sluiter; 8. The definition of crimes against humanity and the question of a 'policy' element Guénaël Mettraux; 9. Ethnic cleansing as euphemism, metaphor, criminology and law John Hagan and Todd J. Haugh; 10. Immunities and amnesties Diane Orentlicher; 11. Modes of participation Elies van Sliedregt; 12. Terrorism and crimes against humanity Michael P. Scharf and Michael A. Newton; 13. Crimes against humanity and the international criminal court Kai Ambos; 14. Crimes against humanity and the responsibility to protect David Scheffer; 15. Re-enforcing enforcement in a specialized convention on crimes against humanity: inter-state cooperation, mutual legal assistance, and the aut dedere aut judicare obligation Laura M. Olson; 16. Why the world needs an international convention on crimes against humanity Gregory H. Stanton; Appendice I. International convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity; Appendice II. Convention internationale pour la prévention et la répression des crimes contre l'humanité; Appendice III. A comprehensive history of the international convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.
£45.98
Cambridge University Press The Practice and Procedure of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights
Book SynopsisA thoroughly revised second edition that incorporates the major changes made in the procedures and practice of the Inter-American Court since the original publication of this book, it features revisions to every chapter to address the numerous new judgments, provisional measures and orders adopted by the Court.Trade Review'A valuable review of all relevant elements of the Court's practice, including issues relating to admissibility, fact finding, provisional measures, oral and written proceedings, scope of judgments, and so on. There is a great deal of material in these pages that scholars will find of value in seeking to understand the Court's jurisprudence and how it has evolved over the years. The book contains important insights about the Court's methodology and its transformation of the American Convention into an effective tool for the protection of human rights in the Americas, as well as various examples of the Court's contribution to international human rights law in general. No one trying to understand the manner in which the Court functions can afford to be without this book.' Thomas Buergenthal, former Judge, International Court of Justice, and Inter-American Court of Human Rights'A significant contribution to the study of the Inter-American human rights system and international human rights law more generally … Throughout the book the discussion of each particular point is extremely detailed, providing full reference to relevant case law, rules, and treaty provisions. Even though the focus is on procedure, the extensive discussion of case law provides a good idea of analysis on substantive issues, demonstrating the intimate connection between procedure and substance in ensuring the protection of human rights.' Richard Burchill, University of HullReview of the first edition: 'This ambitious and comprehensive book provides a first-class reference source and an important guide for scholars, practitioners, and human rights activists, as well as persons not familiar with the complexity of the inter-American human rights system.' Nordic Journal of Human Rights'Pasqualucci's thorough, clearly written, well-organized survey and critique of how contentious cases and advisory opinions proceed before the Court is an indispensable guide for practitioners as well as a valuable contribution to international legal scholarship. She regularly compares the practice of the Court to that of other international courts and bodies, enriching her analysis by an understanding of the global institutional framework of which the Court has become an innovative and transformational part.' Douglass Cassel, American Journal of International LawTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Advisory practice and procedure; 3. Proceedings before the Inter-American Commission; 4. Jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court; 5. Proceedings on the merits: fact-finding and attribution of state responsibility; 6. Victim reparations; 7. Provisional measures; 8. State compliance with court ordered reparations; Appendix 1. American Convention on Human Rights; Appendix 2. Rules of procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Appendix 3. Statute of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Appendix 4. Rules of procedure of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
£36.09
Cambridge University Press Beyond Cages
Book SynopsisFor all the diversity of views within the animal protection movement, there is a surprising consensus about the need for more severe criminal justice interventions against animal abusers. More prosecutions and longer sentences, it is argued, will advance the status of animals in law and society. Breaking from this mold, Professor Justin Marceau demonstrates that a focus on ''carceral animal law'' puts the animal rights movement at odds with other social justice movements, and may be bad for humans and animals alike. Animal protection efforts need to move beyond cages and towards systemic solutions if the movement hopes to be true to its own defining ethos of increased empathy and resistance to social oppression. Providing new insights into how the lessons of criminal justice reform should be imported into the animal abuse context, Beyond Cages is a valuable contribution to the literature on animal welfare and animal rights law.Trade Review'A groundbreaking call to conscience. Marceau firmly positions animal advocacy alongside broader struggles for social justice, and speaks to our shared values. This is the future of animal law.' Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege'Beyond Cages challenges the animal protection movement to critically examine its historical reliance on criminal law. Marceau rightly claims that the movement is ready for this internal critique, and he draws upon his expertise in animal law and criminal law to deliver it with great eloquence and persuasion. The animal protection movement will not - and indeed should not - be the same as a result of Beyond Cages.' Kristen Stilt, Harvard Law School'In this bold book, Marceau critiques the abject alliance between US animal rights organizations and the criminal justice system, and calls out the moral and political hypocrisy of celebrating racialized imprisonment, deportation, and privatized prosecutions as strategies of progressive social change. I hope Beyond Cages augurs a wholesale rejection of simplistic scapegoating in favor of alternative strategies inspired by more thoughtful illuminations of our collective complicity in deeply interconnected structures of oppression.' Timothy Pachirat, author of Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight'Arguments that cruelty to nonhuman animals render humans cruel to each other date back to at least the eighteenth century. In this groundbreaking book, Justin Marceau explains how the criminalization of animal cruelty - often justified by the link between the human propensity to harm others humans if they are violent to nonhuman animals - has been a mistaken focus for the animal law movement. A law-and order approach, what Marceau calls 'Carceral Animal Law', does not fit with a civil rights movement for nonhuman animals. This is a very important intervention, working with what is often treated as common sense and breaking it down by asking the hard questions that need to be put about what is appropriate, effective, and humane when dealing with those who harm or abuse nonhuman animals. Beyond Cages is a must read for anyone interested in animal law, criminal law, and the (at times errant) logic of social justice movements past and present.' Angela Fernandez, University of TorontoTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Incarcerating humans as a salient feature of animal protection; 3. Context: an overview of the mass criminalization problem; 4. A descriptive account and typology of the carceral animal law system; 5. Specific critiques of the carceral turn in animal protection; 6. Race, mass-criminalization and animal law; 7. Punishment and the 'Link' between animal abuse and human violence; 8. Anticipating challenges to the critique of carceral animal law; 9. Conclusion: towards a new research and advocacy agenda for animal protection.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press The Human Rights Dictatorship
Book SynopsisRichardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.Trade Review'In this pioneering book, Richardson-Little upends conventional wisdom that human rights are the natural enemy of authoritarian regimes. With great range and verve, he shows how the East German socialist state used human rights ideologically and diplomatically to stabilize and legitimate its fledging socialist republic, and only in the last decade of the regime did human rights emerge a source of dissent and resistance against the state. This is a model revisionist account of the protean and multi-directional nature of human rights under socialism.' Paul Betts, University of Oxford'Finally a book on human rights history by someone deeply conversant with socialist thought, state-socialist regimes, and current human rights historiography. This is a rare and valuable book as well as a good read. It will be a reference point for years to come.' Lora Wildenthal, Rice University, Texas'By showing the centrality of human rights to both the legitimacy and the downfall of the GDR, The Human Rights Dictatorship makes a major contribution to the global history of human rights. In this richly textured history, Ned Richardson-Little shows how East Germans instrumentalized human rights in the name of numerous shifting ideals: socialism, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, Christianity, peace the environment, democracy, and ultimately, the creation of a unified German state.' Celia Donert, University of Liverpool'Eagerly anticipated, Ned Richardson-Little's book breaks important new ground. Overcoming simple narratives of the GDR's erosion, he impressively uncovers the multiple meanings with which East German actors infused human rights - including state elites seeking to buttress their socialist project. Richly nuanced, the book advances our understanding of the twisted trajectory of human rights history in the 20th century.' Jan Eckel, Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen'One of the hallmarks of a great book is that it exposes an area that would benefit from focused future research, laying the foundations for the creation of a complex structure of work on the subject. This book does exactly that. Though Richardson-Little tackles a large and incredibly complex topic in only 250 pages, he does so thoroughly and with a great balance between overarching concepts and definitions, and specific and vivid examples from his source base.' Samantha Clarke, H-RussiaTable of ContentsIntroduction. The exploitation of man by man has been abolished!; 1. Creating a human rights dictatorship, 1945–1956; 2. Inventing socialist human rights, 1953–1966; 3. Socialist human rights on the world stage, 1966–1978; 4. The ambiguity of human rights from below, 1968–1982; 5. The rise of dissent and the collapse of socialist human rights, 1980–1989; 6. Revolutions won and lost, 1989–1990; Conclusion. Erasures and rediscoveries.
£78.84
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights
Book SynopsisWritten by psychologists, historians, and lawyers, this handbook demonstrates the central role psychological science plays in addressing some of the world''s most pressing problems. Over 100 experts from around the world work together to supply an integrated history of human rights and psychological science using a rights and strengths-based perspective. It highlights what psychologists have done to promote human rights and what continues to be done at the United Nations. With emerging visions for the future uses of psychological theory, education, evidence-based research, and best practices, the chapters offer advice on how to advance the 2030 Global Agenda on Sustainable Development. Challenging the view that human rights are best understood through a political lens, this scholarly collection of essays shows how psychological science may hold the key to nurturing humanitarian values and respect for human dignity.Trade Review'This remarkable handbook draws upon a multi-disciplinary group of thought leaders who provide a compelling vision for addressing the manifestations of inequality. The coverage is broad, deep, and should be read by anyone concerned with promoting human rights and progress on the global agenda.' John C. Scott, Chief Operating Officer, APTMetrics, Inc.'Wherever human rights are disregarded, psychology - as a science, professional practice, and perspective on life - is also questioned. This handbook is an impressive reminder to students, professionals, and researchers to respect human rights as a compass for their work, the importance of protecting them, and to promote them where possible.' Christoph Steinebach, Director of the School of Applied Psychology and Director of the Institute for Applied Psychology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland'This soon-to-be-classic work has been ever-so-finely crafted to serve as a highly-referenced volume for many years to come in human rights, social justice, and the role that psychology can play. It is founded upon the powerful writing of a who's who of contributing authors - I have never seen such a line-up of all-star academics, researchers, and most importantly: activists.' Chris E. Stout, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives'The lack of adequate implementation of international human rights agreements is one of biggest scandals of our time. Looking at human rights through the lens of psychology presents interesting and feasible ways to correct this situation. This book is a must-read for every social scientist and human rights scholar!' Shekhar Saxena, Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, USA'By thoughtfully framing psychology within a human rights context, this handbook outlines the dangerous propensity towards fundamentalism, bigotry, and fake news, which radicalises the susceptible or makes them indifferent to the issues affecting us all. Such an application of ethical psychology can, indeed must, improve human society.' Saths Cooper, Past President, International Union of Psychological Science, and Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria, South AfricaTable of ContentsPart I. History of human rights; Part II. The intersection of psychology and human rights; Part III. Contemporary issues, psychology and human rights; Part IV. Teaching, research, and training in psychology and human rights; Part V. Future directions.
£173.85
Cambridge University Press The Human Rights Dictatorship
Book SynopsisRichardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.Trade Review'In this pioneering book, Richardson-Little upends conventional wisdom that human rights are the natural enemy of authoritarian regimes. With great range and verve, he shows how the East German socialist state used human rights ideologically and diplomatically to stabilize and legitimate its fledging socialist republic, and only in the last decade of the regime did human rights emerge a source of dissent and resistance against the state. This is a model revisionist account of the protean and multi-directional nature of human rights under socialism.' Paul Betts, University of Oxford'Finally a book on human rights history by someone deeply conversant with socialist thought, state-socialist regimes, and current human rights historiography. This is a rare and valuable book as well as a good read. It will be a reference point for years to come.' Lora Wildenthal, Rice University, Texas'By showing the centrality of human rights to both the legitimacy and the downfall of the GDR, The Human Rights Dictatorship makes a major contribution to the global history of human rights. In this richly textured history, Ned Richardson-Little shows how East Germans instrumentalized human rights in the name of numerous shifting ideals: socialism, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, Christianity, peace the environment, democracy, and ultimately, the creation of a unified German state.' Celia Donert, University of Liverpool'Eagerly anticipated, Ned Richardson-Little's book breaks important new ground. Overcoming simple narratives of the GDR's erosion, he impressively uncovers the multiple meanings with which East German actors infused human rights - including state elites seeking to buttress their socialist project. Richly nuanced, the book advances our understanding of the twisted trajectory of human rights history in the 20th century.' Jan Eckel, Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen'One of the hallmarks of a great book is that it exposes an area that would benefit from focused future research, laying the foundations for the creation of a complex structure of work on the subject. This book does exactly that. Though Richardson-Little tackles a large and incredibly complex topic in only 250 pages, he does so thoroughly and with a great balance between overarching concepts and definitions, and specific and vivid examples from his source base.' Samantha Clarke, H-RussiaTable of ContentsIntroduction. The exploitation of man by man has been abolished!; 1. Creating a human rights dictatorship, 1945–1956; 2. Inventing socialist human rights, 1953–1966; 3. Socialist human rights on the world stage, 1966–1978; 4. The ambiguity of human rights from below, 1968–1982; 5. The rise of dissent and the collapse of socialist human rights, 1980–1989; 6. Revolutions won and lost, 1989–1990; Conclusion. Erasures and rediscoveries.
£24.99
Cambridge University Press The NGO Moment
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of compassion as a global project from Biafra to Live Aid. Kevin O''Sullivan explains how and why NGOs became the primary conduits of popular concern for the global poor between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s and shows how this shaped the West''s relationship with the post-colonial world. Drawing on case studies from Britain, Canada and Ireland, as well as archival material from governments and international organisations, he sheds new light on how the legacies of empire were re-packaged and re-purposed for the post-colonial era, and how a liberal definition of benevolence, rooted in charity, justice, development and rights became the dominant expression of solidarity with the Third World. In doing so, the book provides a unique insight into the social, cultural and ideological foundations of global civil society. It reveals why this period provided such fertile ground for the emergence of NGOs and offers a fresh interpretation of how individuals in the West encoTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Ends of Empire: 1. Encountering the Third World Biafra, 1967–70; 2. Putting Down Roots Bangladesh, 1970–72; An NGO Movement: 3. Charity or Justice? Radical Compassion; 4. NGOs and Advocacy A New International Economic Order; Conduits of World Culture: 5. NGOs and Development Basic Needs; 6. In Search of Legitimacy Cambodia, 1979–81; A People's Compassion: 7. The Turn to Human Rights El Salvador, 1979–84; 8. Populist Humanitarianism Ethiopia, 1984–85; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
£23.99
Cambridge University Press Health as a Human Right
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£28.49
Cambridge University Press Mental Health Legal Capacity and Human Rights
Book SynopsisThis book is for scholars, practitioners, and advocates in law, psychiatry, and public health and policy. It is essential reading for anyone interested in applying human rights principles to mental health settings or supporting people with psychosocial disabilities to make rights-based decisions about their own wellbeing.Trade Review'I welcome the initiative of the group of scholars, mental health practitioners, human rights experts and persons with disabilities that has led to the publication of Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights. Only by working together, can we succeed. Building knowledge is the path to drawing the roadmap towards more just and inclusive societies.' António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General (from the Foreword to the volume)'… the most useful book that has been published in recent times … offers a 'comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of legal capacity in the realm of mental health.' … readers from all backgrounds with an interest in these critically important issues will find themselves informed, stimulated and challenged in equal ways. Especially in the circumstances of the pandemic … the editors are to be congratulated on bringing together, and home, such an important work.' Alex Ruck Keene, Mental Capacity Law and PolicyTable of ContentsIntroduction: A 'paradigm shift' in mental health care Faraaz Mahomed, Michael Ashley Stein, Vikram Patel and Charlene Sunkel; 1. The alchemy of agency: reflections on supported decision-making, the right to health and health systems as democratic institutions Alicia Ely Yamin; 2. Redefining international mental health care in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic Benjamin A. Barsky, Julie Hannah and Dainius Pūras; 3. Reparation for psychiatric violence: a call to justice Tina Minkowitz; 4. Divergent human rights approaches to capacity and consent Gerald L. Neuman; 5. From fairy tale to reality: a practical legal approach towards the global abolition of psychiatric coercion Laura Davidson; 6. The “fusion law” proposals and the CRPD John Dawson and George Szmukler; 7. Contextualising legal capacity and supported decision making in the Global South – Experiences of homeless women with mental health issues from Chennai, India Mrinalini Ravi, Barbara Regeer, Archana Padmakar, Vandana Gopikumar and Joske Bunders; 8. The potential of the legal capacity law reform in Peru to transform mental health provision Alberto Vásquez Encalada; 9. Advancing disability equality through supported decision making: the CRPD and the Canadian constitution Faisal Bhabha; 10. Decisional autonomy and India's Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: a comment on emerging jurisprudence Soumitra Pathare and Arjun Kapoor; 11. Towards resolving damaging uncertainties: progress in the United Kingdom and elsewhere Adrian D. Ward; 12. “The revolution will not be televised”: recent developments in mental health law reform in Zambia and Ghana Heléne Combrinck and Enoch Chilemba; 13. Supported decision-making and legal capacity in Kenya Elizabeth Kamundia and Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis; 14. Seher's “circle of care” model in advancing supported decision making in India Bhargavi V. Davar, Kavita Pillai and Kimberly LaCroix; 15. The Swedish personal ombudsman: support in decision-making and accessing human rights Ulrika Järkestig Berggren; 16. Strategies to achieve a rights based approach through WHO Quality Rights Michelle Funk, Natalie Drew Bold, Joana Ansong, Daniel Chisholm, Melita Murko, Joyce Nato, Sally-ann Ohene, Jasmine Vergara and Edwina Zoghbi; 17. The Clubhouse Model: A framework for naturally occurring supported decision making Joel D. Corcoran, Cindy Hamersma and Steven Manning; 18. Mind the gap: researching “alternatives to coercion” in mental health care Piers Gooding; 19. Psychiatric advance directives and supported decision-making: preliminary developments and pilot studies in California Christopher Schnieders, Elyn R. Saks, Jonathan Martinis and Peter Blanck; 20. Community-based mental health care delivery with partners in health: a framework for putting the CRPD into practice Stephanie L. Smith; 21. Lived experience perspectives from Australia, Canada, Kenya, Cameroon and South Africa – conceptualizing the realities Charlene Sunkel, Andrew Turtle, Sylvio A Gravel, Iregi Mwenja and Marie Angele Abanga; 22. In the pursuit of justice: advocacy by and for hyper-marginalized people with psychosocial disabilities through the law and beyond Lydia X. Z. Brown and Shain M. Neumeier; 23. The Danish experience of transforming decision-making models Dorrit Cato Christensen; 24. The use of patient advocates in supporting people with psychosocial disabilities Aikaterini Nomidou; 25. Users' involvement in decision-making: lessons from primary research in India and Japan Kanna Sugiura; 26. Involvement of people with lived experience of mental health conditions in decision-making to improve care in rural Ethiopia Sally Souraya, Sisay Abyaneh, Charlotte Hanlon and Laura Asher.
£95.00
Cambridge University Press Due Diligence Obligations in International Human Rights Law
Book SynopsisIntroducing an analytical framework for international due diligence obligations and testing it against several practical examples, this book is of relevance to both scholars and students of public international law as well as to practitioners and political decision-makers in the field of human rights protection.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Why to analyze state responsibility for human rights violations: the flawed debate on direct human rights obligations for non-state actors; 2. Establishing state responsibility for human rights violations: proposal for a conduct-based typology of human rights obligations; 3. The origins of due diligence in international law; 4. The components of the due diligence standard; 5. Lessons to be learned from the application of due diligence obligations in other fields of International Law; 6. Applying the due diligence framework to the field of human rights protection; 7. A case for extraterritorial due diligence obligations in the human rights context; Summary and outlook; Index.
£104.50
Cambridge University Press Collective Equality
Book SynopsisThis book will appeal to academics and students studying law, transitional justice, political science and international relations as well as to policymakers, diplomats, journalists and civil society professionals working on conflict related injustices and are interested in the role of law and justice in political transitions and peacebuilding.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Human Rights and Democracy in Deeply Divided Places: 2. The politics of ethno-national conflicts; 3. The limits of partition; 4. Limitations of human rights; Part II. Revisiting Assumptions: 5. Rethinking democracy; 6. Human rights versus power-sharing; Part III. Collective Equality: 7. Collective equality: theoretical foundations for the law of peace; 8. Collective equality and sustaining peace; 9. Collective equality and international law; Conclusion.
£90.25
Cambridge University Press When Environmental Protection and Human Rights
Book SynopsisConflicts between environmental protection laws and human rights present delicate trade-offs when concerns for social and ecological justice are increasingly intertwined. This book retraces how the legal ordering of environmental protection evolved over time and progressively merged with human rights concerns, thereby leading to a synergistic framing of their relation. It explores the world-making effects this framing performed by establishing how ''humans'' ought to relate to ''nature'', and examines the role played by legislators, experts and adjudicators in (re)producing it. While it questions, contextualises and problematises how and why this dominant framing was construed, it also reveals how the conflicts that underpin this relationship and the victims they affect mainly remained unseen. The analysis critically evaluates the argumentative tropes and adjudicative strategies used in the environmental case-law of regional courts to understand how these conflicts are judicially medTrade Review'We know that environmental pollution harms human lives, but can environmental protection also harm? Marie Petersmann incisively shows us that not all environmentalisms are alike, and that those privileged by international law and courts move between a narrow range, from conservative neo-Malthusianism to liberal sustainable development. These environmentalisms code perceptions of human-nature relationships, of how to know the world and be in it, and of evidence and expertise, that crowd out what Joan Martinez-Alier calls 'the environmentalism of the poor'. In analysis both powerful and poignant, Petersmann dissects the development of this mainstream of environmental protection, and who and what it excludes, and opens paths to new possibilities. A terrific and essential book.' Surabhi Ranganathan, University of Cambridge'At a moment when environmental and human rights norms are becoming ever more intertwined, this book makes a timely and crucial scholarly and political intervention by investigating the points of dissonance, tensions and trade-offs between these regimes. Petersmann persuasively shows the limitations of this anthropocentric normative synthesis, and draws on a rich body of interdisciplinary feminist, decolonial and post-human scholarship to open possibilities for a different legal language and practice of care for more-than-human worlds. This book is compulsory reading for those wanting to re-imagine legal relations in the Anthropocene.' Julia Dehm, La Trobe University'Laws that protect human rights and laws that protect the environment are growing ever closer. As we live through alarming ecological decline, theorists and practitioners are keen to point to normative convergence. Yet what is lost by this synergistic framing? Petersmann's original and compelling legal analysis, which draws on the case law of regional human rights courts as well as anthropology, geography and political theory, demonstrates the high stakes of the inquiry, and impels new thinking about the relationship between human rights and environmental protection.' Margaret Young, University of Melbourne'This scholarly, well-argued, and thought-provoking book rightly problematises uncritical assertions of 'synergy' between human rights and 'the environment' and exposes tacit imaginaries facilitating the on-going absorption of environmental concerns into human rights law. Petersmann draws timely and necessary attention to normative conflicts that are all too often over-looked. Theoretically astute and doctrinally informed, this book is simultaneously critical, affirmative and future-facing. It is a powerful contribution to the field.' Anna Grear, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. Constructing Synergies – Framing the Environment – Human Rights Interface: 1. Narratives of environmental and human rights protection – from a 'Pristine Wilderness' to a 'Human Environment'; 2. Horizons of synergy – adjudicating environmental and human rights protection; 3. Constructing and contesting anthropocentric synergies; 4. Countering the dominant frame – an account of trade-offs and tensions; Part II. Conflict Mediation through Universalisation: 5. The general interest as universalisation strategy; 6. Expert knowledge as universalisation strategy.
£80.75
Cambridge University Press Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice
Book SynopsisThe families of the disappeared have long struggled to uncover the truth about their missing relatives. In so doing, their mobilization has shaped central transitional justice norms and institutions, as this ground-breaking work demonstrates. Kovras combines a new global database with the systematic analysis of four challenging case studies - Lebanon, Cyprus, South Africa and Chile - each representative of a different approach to transitional justice. These studies reveal how variations in transitional justice policies addressing the disappeared occur: explaining why victims'' groups in some countries are caught in silence, while others bring perpetrators to account. Conceiving of transitional justice as a dynamic process, Kovras traces the different phases of truth recovery in post-transitional societies, giving substance not only to the ''why'' but also the ''when'' and ''how'' of this kind of campaign against impunity. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the dTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Methods and Theory: 2. Methodological and theoretical innovations in the use of databases in transitional justice; Part II. Global and Historical Perspectives: 3. The daughters of Antigone in Latin America: Argentinian mothers; 4. 'Forensic cascade': the technologies and institutions of truth; 5. The 'missing' tale of human rights; Part III. National Perspectives: 6. Institutionalized silences for the missing in Lebanon; 7. Cyprus: the bright side of a frozen conflict; 8. Truth commissions and the missing: TRC's 'unfinished business'; 9. Poetic justice: the Chilean desaparecidos; 10. Conclusions: five lessons for transitional justice.
£36.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Wandering in Strange Lands A Daughter of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wandering in Strange Lands is in many ways a quintessentially American story. . . Jerkins makes plain that denying space for Black identities in history is itself a legacy as American as its original sins of racism and enslavement. By exploring the truth of that past with such integrity, this memoir enriches our future." — New York Times Book Review "Jerkins weaves a vivid and painful backstory of Black people forced into enslavement in the American South. . .The book is filled with poignant examples from across multiple centuries, including those retold in classrooms and those relegated to forgotten parts of our country's consciousness. . .It's when Jerkins sews her familial threads with those poignant historical facts from deep in the archives of America that the book is most impactful. Equally heartbreaking and reaffirming are the trials and tribulations too many Black people in the United States have faced and somehow conquered, coming out more resilient on the other side." — USA Today "Wandering in Strange Lands intertwines segments of past and present travel, as a reminder that the past is present in the U.S." — O, the Oprah Magazine "The mass migration of 6 million Black Americans from the rural South to the North, West, and Midwest is given a deeply personal framing by writer Morgan Jerkins as she attempts to better understand her ancestors’ treacherous journey across America." — Vogue "Traveling throughout the country, [Jerkins] explores the path her family took as well as her cultural identity as a black woman. Her desire to understand both her personal and cultural origins will inspire you to do the same." — Elle "Morgan Jerkins has always been curious about her family tree and the roots of Black Americans. In 'Wandering in Strange Lands,' she traces her ancestry back 300 years and shares what she learned about the Great Migration, displacement, and disenfranchisement. The result is an eye-opening, well-researched portrait of Black life in America after slavery." — Hello Giggles "Wandering in Strange Lands is a timely and riveting story about the Black American experience as told by a writer seeking to reclaim her roots by retracing her family's journey." — PopSugar "Morgan Jerkins, author of the best-selling and acclaimed This Will Be My Undoing, sets out to discover her family’s roots in Wandering in Strange Lands. In doing so she paints a larger portrait of African American displacement and disenfranchisement during the Great Migration and its impact on her own life. . . Jerkins is a wonderfully articulate memoirist and critic as she shares her own quest to understand the hard truths and actions of her ancestors. . .Wandering in Strange Lands is revelatory, shocking, and affirming." — Al Woodworth, Amazon Book Review "In Wandering in Strange Lands, Jerkins mixes reportage with personal reflection, taking readers through Southern spaces not often given visibility by those inhabiting or those who built the towns because they’ve since seen another type of colonization. Connecting her present with her past and investigating the ways DNA for Black people is not secular but spans many regions in the United States, Jerkins delves into a family history she didn’t understand but brings herself, and us, closer to." — Electric Literature "Jerkins evades [the sophomore] slump with the release of her second book, [Wandering in Strange Lands] penning beautiful prose that is engaging, thought-provoking, and authentic. Following the release of her 2018 New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins hits another home run and leaves her readers asking new questions about the world in which we live." — Ms. Magazine "For fans of “The 1619 Project,” The New York Times Magazine’s series that recently reexamined the legacy of slavery in the United States, this book is an interesting companion piece. For a long time, Jerkins’ family chose to look forward, not back. But what she found when she finally did retrace their steps was her true self. It had not been forgotten; it was just waiting to be discovered." — Bust Magazine “[A] forthright and informative account. . . . Jerkins’s careful research and revelatory conversations with historians, activists, and genealogists result in a disturbing yet ultimately empowering chronicle of the African-American experience. Readers will be moved by this brave and inquisitive book.” — Publishers Weekly “A thrilling, emotional, and engaging ride that almost commands the reader to turn the page, Wandering in Strange Lands is required reading, accurately widening the lens of American history.” — Booklist (starred review) "A blend of reportage and memoir, this is just one story of many of this time—and one not to miss when it comes out." — Book Riot “Driven by a need to understand her own identity, cultural critic Jerkins mounted an investigation into her family's tangled history, recounting in this candid memoir the surprising discoveries that emerged from her emotional journey. . . A revelatory exploration of the meaning of blackness.” — Kirkus Reviews
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Beneath the Tamarind Tree A Story of Courage
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc My Vanishing Country A Memoir
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Bakari Sellers’ My Vanishing Country is exactly the book we need right now. The issues he raises are deeply personal and important to me. In his captivating memoir, Sellers not only brings a personal touch to the resilient people in places like his hometown Denmark, South Carolina, but he also rings the alarm about dangerous policies being enacted across the state and the devastating impact that they are having on people’s everyday lives.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first woman in U.S. history to become the presidential nominee of a major political party. "My Vanishing Country is both a timely and timeless book that sheds a light on the unseen and gives a voice to the many who are unheard." — Tyler Perry “Bakari lays out a blueprint for anyone thinking just because their life starts on a dirt road in the rural south, it must end on a dirt road in the rural south. If you want to know what a black man can achieve in this country with faith in a higher power and a strong family structure, then this is the memoir you need.” — Charlamagne Tha God, author of Black Privilege and Shook One “My Vanishing Country solidifies Bakari Sellers as a major voice for his generation. He has taken the torch from his father Cleveland Sellers and soared. His brutally honest look at the systemic racism that continues to hold back the black working class is revelatory. His ownership of being Black, Country, and Proud is refreshing.” — Angela Rye, CNN Commentator and CEO of IMPACT Strategies “Bakari Sellers’ My Vanishing Country is urgent and essential reading brimming with compassion and courage.” — Van Jones, CNN Political Analyst “A strong voice for social justice emerges in an engaging memoir.” — Kirkus Reviews “Family trauma—even inherited trauma—can take a tremendous toll on children. But as Bakari Sellers makes plain in My Vanishing Country, family trauma can also be a source of strength.” — BookPage
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Education of an Idealist Low Price CD
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERA must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world.President Barack ObamaThis is a wonderful book. [] The interweaving of Power's personal story, family story, diplomatic history and moral arguments is executed seamlessly and with unblinking honesty.THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, The New York Times Book Review Honest, personal, revealing about the development of a young woman's inner strength and self-knowledge.COLM TÓIBÍN, author of Brooklyn and Nora WebsterTruly engrossing.RACHEL MADDOWAn intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner, human rights advocate, and former UN Ambassador Samantha Power.In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question What can one person do? and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Naked Dont Fear the Water
Book SynopsisA NYTBR Editor’s Choice “This is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders - not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility. It is powerful and humane and deserves to find a wide, wandering readership.” — Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestIn this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler’s road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year.Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides t
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc My Vanishing Country Mi País Se Desvanece
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The TwentyOne
Book SynopsisCompelling and timely, award-winning author Elizabeth Rusch’s The Twenty-One tells the gripping inside story of the ongoing landmark federal climate change lawsuit, Juliana vs. United States of America. The Twenty-One is for readers of Christina Soontornvat’s All Thirteen, fans of Steve Sheinkin’s books, and anyone interested in the environment and climate change, as well as youth activism, politics and government, and the law. From severe flooding in Louisiana to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest to melting permafrost in Alaska, catastrophic climate events are occurring more frequently—and severely—than ever. And these events are having a direct impact on the lives (and futures) of young people and their families. In the ongoing landmark case Juliana vs. United States, twenty-one young plaintiffs claim that the government’s support of the fossil-fuel industry is actively contributing to climate change, and that all citizens have a constitutional right to a stable climate—especially children and young adults, because they cannot vote and will inherit the problems of the future.Elizabeth Rusch’s The Twenty-One is a gripping legal and environmental thriller that tells the story of twenty-one young people and their ongoing case against the U.S. government for denying their constitutional right to life and liberty. A rich, informative, and multifaceted read, The Twenty-One stars the young plaintiffs and their attorneys; illuminates the workings of the United States’s judicial system and the relationship between government, citizens’ rights, and the environment; and asks readers to think deeply about the future of our planet. Features extensive backmatter, including a timeline, glossary, call to action, additional resources, and photographs.
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HarperCollins HERE TO STAY
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HarperCollins If We Are Brave
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Penguin Putnam Inc The IsraelArab Reader
Book SynopsisAn essential resource, newly revised and updated In print for nearly half a century, and now in its eighth edition, The Israel-Arab Reader is an authoritative guide to over a century of conflict in the Middle East. It covers the full spectrum of a violent and checkered history—the origins of Zionism and Arab nationalism, the struggles surrounding Israel’s independence in 1948, the Six-Day War and other wars and hostilities over the decades, and the long diplomatic process and many peace initiatives. Arranged chronologically and without bias by two veteran historians of the Middle East, this comprehensive reference brings together speeches, letters, articles, and reports involving all the major interests in the area. The eighth edition features a new introduction as well as a large new section—more than 40 pages—recounting developments over the last decade, including the intra-Palestinian factional strife between
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OUP India Architectures of Violence The Command Structures
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OUP India Sparks
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The University of Chicago Press The Antigay Agenda
Book SynopsisExamines the values, beliefs, and rhetoric of the chief opponents of gay rights - the organizations of the Christian Right. The text traces the emergence of their antigay agenda and explores how and why the Christian Right made antigay activity a top priority.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Quaker Brotherhood Interracial Activism and the
Book SynopsisThe links among religion, race relations, and peace activismTrade ReviewThe first extensive examination of the Friends' interracial activism in the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), founded in 1917. Quaker Brotherhood makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Quaker interracial activism in the early decades of the 20th century."--The Journal of African American History "Austin's work is carefully researched and documented. He has painstakingly mined the rich archival collections of AFSC records in Philadelphia, and his book provides a comprehensive examination of decades of steady civil rights work leading up to the demonstration-based activism of the post-1950 period… Austin's narrative tells a previously untold story, one of importance to scholars in a broad range of fields, from U.S. history to African American studies, from public policy to conflict resolution."--The Journal of Southern History "Quaker Brotherhood is a thoughtful, well written and solidly researched book that will undoubtedly help scholars better appreciate the Quakers' work to try to build a more racially just world in the first half of the twentieth century."--Quaker Studies "Austin's book poses a set of provocative questions that examine the relationship between doctrinal purity and social change."--Indiana Magazine of History "Austin's contribution reminds readers how important religion has been in promoting liberal causes for social justice throughout U.S. History. Recommended."--Choice "A useful addition to the history of American Quakers earnest, sometimes troubled, endeavours to achieve racial justice in American Society and peace in the world."--Canadian Journal of History "Quaker Brotherhood more than succeeds in opening a window into the inner workings of one religious group's halting but no less significant racial journey. In so doing, Austin brings race and religion into fruitful conversation."--Journal of Religion
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MO - University of Illinois Press Speech Rights in America
Book SynopsisHow and why the First Amendment fails to protect speech rightsTrade Review"This is a thoughtful analysis ranging over history and recent cases."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly"An important work, offering sophisticated yet engaging analyses of First Amendment law and the media landscape in which we find ourselves in the United States."--Matthew Bunker, Reese Phifer Professor of Journalism, University of Alabama"A forceful and intellectually comprehensive argument that the First Amendment should be a positive, not simply a negative, guarantee that empowers and perhaps obliges government to protect the public ends of free expression. . . . Stein brings a breadth of perspectives and material to the subject that few, if any, have managed to do. Her book is an original and important contribution to our understanding of free expression in America."--Randall P. Bezanson, author of How Free Can the Press Be?
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MO - University of Illinois Press Nursing Civil Rights
Book SynopsisIn Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter. Each conducted separate integration campaigns to end the discrimination they suffered. Yet their stories defy the narrative that civil rights struggles inevitably arced toward social justice. Threat tells how progressive elements in the campaigns did indeed break down barriers in both military and civilian nursing. At the same time, she follows conservative threads to portray how some of the women who succeeded as agents of change became defenders of exclusionary practices when men sought military nursing careers. The ironic result was a struggle that simultaneously confronted and reaffirmed the social hierarchies that nurtured discrimination.Trade ReviewLavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research Writing, American Association for the History of Nursing, 2017. "Particularly strong in the themes of civil rights and gender equality and adds important information on subjects that have been traditionally underrepresented in academic literature. Threat has made a substantial contribution to this important subject and has started a stimulating discussion."--Susan Malka, author of Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second Wave Feminism"This book links nurses’ struggles to broader drives for racial and gender justice. Highly recommended."--Choice"Charissa J. Threat accomplishes her purpose of broadening our thinking about discrimination history beyond race and gender to economic rights and labor as part of an equal rights agenda. . . . Threat effectively threads her argument, that although race and gender were key Civil Rights forces, labor and economics were also critical in shaping the agenda. . . . She effectively uses nursing, as should other scholars, to understand broader social and political issues." --Journal of the History of Medicine"Charissa J. Threat offers an original way to view the struggles of professional black women and white men in nursing. . . . This book is more than a history of two groups struggling for acceptance in the cultures and politics of professional nursing and the military. Threat's discussion about the complexities surrounding the concept of equality allows the reader to consider larger societal issues about inclusion."--American Historical Review"By combining narratives of African American women and white men and analyzing the Army Nurse Corps' policies regarding both race and gender, Threat links together gender and racial equality to provide a new framework in which to understand the 1960s civil rights movement. . . . Threat's arguments make Nursing Civil Rights an important work in understanding the gender and racial structure of the Army Nurse Corps in the 1960s and 1970s."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"A welcome amendment to the history of nursing in the United States. . . . Threat's examination of nursing's organizational evolution yields new insights about the racial politics of alliance and division."--Women's Review of Books"This book offers new insight into American history, and adds an important perspective to existing works on nursing history by Sarnecky, Vuic, and Hine. This excellent book will appeal to scholars and teachers of medicine and nursing history, military history, and civil rights and gender."--Bulletin of the History of Medicine"A fascinating study of how nurses, black and white, men and women, fought for economic opportunities within the military."--Pacific Historical Review "Nursing Civil Rights illuminates thoroughly the issues of racial and gender inclusion in the US military." --The Journal of African American History "Nursing Civil Rights skillfully links African American and male nurses’ efforts to integrate the military nursing corps to a broader history of struggles for racial and sexual equality in the early- and mid-twentieth century. This book makes a clear case that social change, wars, and the military are intimately connected."--Kara Dixon Vuic, author of Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War "Nursing Civil Rights tells the untold story of how the United States’ Army Nurse Corps, a profoundly conservative institution, came to represent real racial and gendered diversity--still elusive in both our society and in other branches of the armed services. Yet, this well documented and reasoned book does more. It uses the Army Nurse Corps as an example of the complicated intersections of race, gender, Cold War politics, and the quest of some women and men for social justice and equality. Nursing Civil Rights will be invaluable not only for those who want to understand the radicalized and gendered structure of our health care institutions, but also the culture within which we all live and work."--Patricia D'Antonio, author of American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work
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MO - University of Illinois Press Too Much Free Speech
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely and important exploration of recent Supreme Court decisions that extend the meaning of free speech to include, for instance, the expression of political views by corporations. The writing is clear, lively, and interesting, and it addresses essential matters of public concern such as the expansion of government speech at the expense of private expression."--Joan DelFattore, author of Knowledge in the Making: Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities" Too Much Free Speech? is a timely and important exploration of recent Supreme Court decisions that extend the meaning of free speech to include, for instance, the expression of political views by corporations. The writing is clear, lively, and interesting, and it addresses essential matters of public concern such as the expansion of government speech at the expense of private expression."--Joan DelFattore, author of Knowledge in the Making: Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities
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Random House USA Inc Muzzled
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HarperChristian Resources Share the Dream Bible Study Guide plus Streaming
Book SynopsisShare the Dream™ is a six-session video study that calls upon a new generation of believers to embrace and model in our generation the timeless, Gospel-based principles of Martin Luther King, Jr. that are the best hope for stopping the descent of civilization into polarization, division, civil strife, and armed conflict.
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HarperChristian Resources Share the Dream Study Guide with DVD
Book SynopsisShare the Dream is a six-session video study that calls upon a new generation of believers to embrace and model in our generation the timeless, Gospel-based principles of Martin Luther King, Jr. that are the best hope for stopping the descent of civilization into polarization, division, civil strife, and armed conflict.
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Back Bay Books They Cant Kill Us All
Book SynopsisAn indispensable work of journalism that “is electric, because it is so well reported” (Dwight Garner, New York Times) by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Wesley Lowery that describes the earliest days of #blacklivesmatter and brings to life the quest for justice in the murders by police of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray as well as an intimate, moving portrait of the activists working to dismantle systemic racism in America Conducting hundreds of interviews over the course of one year of reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the repose to Michael Brown's death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown's family and the families of other victims other victims' families as well as local activists. By posing the question, 'What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?' Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs. Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, They Can't Kill Us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community's long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination.They Can't Kill Us All is a canonical work in the fight against police brutality. Lowery grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans most in need of both.
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WW Norton & Co Everybody Says Freedom A History of the Civil
Book Synopsis“Filled with beautiful music, glorious lyrics, and the soul of one of the most important historical and social revolutions of our history.” —Judy Collins
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WW Norton & Co He Had a Dream Martin Luther King Jr and the
Book SynopsisHe Had a Dream is a visual record of King's life and work by the only man King trusted and to whom he gave such complete access. Schulke's images, combined with his commentary on both the moment and its place in the context of the civil rights movement, create a more immediate and revealing portrait of King than we have had before.
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WW Norton & Co Losing America
Book SynopsisA ringing call to action by one of the country's longest serving and most respected legislators.Trade Review"An eloquent cri de coeur by a respected senior statesman." New York Times; "[Byrd's] sermon should be taken seriously by anyone who believes that republican government ultimately rests on public debate and resolution regarding the highest acts of sovereignty." Washington Post; "An absorbing book. Every citizen should read it." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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WW Norton & Co Going Down Jericho Road
Book SynopsisThe definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.Trade Review"...brilliant in the way it delineates the economic benefits to Southern society of American apartheid... it is also stirring in portraying the strike leaders, ordinary workers who risked everything to establish their basic rights in the face of arrogant and condescending power." Michael Carlson, The Spectator"
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WW Norton & Co Universal Rights Down to Earth
Book SynopsisA path-blazing lesson on how to reconcile lofty human rights ambitions with political and cultural realities.Trade Review"His [Richard Thompson Ford's] challenge is brave and thought-provoking..." The Times Literary Supplement
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Random House USA Inc Jackson 1964
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Basic Books Freedom for the Thought That We Hate A Biography
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The University of Michigan Press Are Worker Rights Human Rights
Book SynopsisIn a global economy, workers must assert their collective rights as workers in order to win human rights as individuals. By introducing Marxian and Institutional analysis, this book reveals the class relations and power structures that determine the position of workers in the global economy.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the interdisciplinary study of labor. McIntyre's book will challenge the debate over labor rights on all fronts. - Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine ""An important, timely, and needed contribution to our understanding of worker rights."" - Patrick McHugh, George Washington University
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The University of Michigan Press American Prophet
Book Synopsisillustrates the arc of McWilliams's life and career, from his early writing through his law, business, and political careers in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, to his two decades as editor of the Nation. This book makes the case for McWilliams's place in the Olympian realm of our most influential and prescient political writers.
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The University of Michigan Press International Trade and Human Rights
Book SynopsisFocuses on a developing area of international law certain to become important in the years to come, as both scholarship and jurisprudence explores the boundaries of the intersection of the two fields. This book addresses the relationship between human rights and international trade from an important interdisciplinary perspective.
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The University of Michigan Press Law Liberty and the Pursuit of Terrorism
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The University of Michigan Press The Politics of Intimacy
Book SynopsisDebates on the end-of-life controversy are complex because they seem to highjack national and cultural traditions. Where previous books have focused on ideological grounds, The Politics of Intimacy explores dying as the site where policies are negotiated and implemented.Trade ReviewAnna Durnová's book joins the scholarship on flows of ideas and practices across borders, on emotions and IR, on the body and IR, and on 'the everyday' and IR. Her interviews, reviews of media coverage, and other research findings allow her to tell very interesting and analytically rich stories that tease out the relations between government, medical professionals, patients and their loved ones, and contending advocacy organizations."" - Renee Marlin-Bennett, Johns Hopkins University""This is a fascinating and empirically rich book that is a signature, poignant study on the ‘politics of intimacy'. . . the arguments are interesting, provocative, and insightfully persuasive."" - Brent J. Steele, The University of Utah
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Random House USA Inc Conditional Citizens
Book SynopsisA New York Times Editors'' Choice ?Finalist for the California Book Award ?Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction? Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, Los Angeles TimesIn this brilliantly argued and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth?such as national origin, race, and gender?that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today, poignantly illustrating how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation. Weaving together her experiences with an examination of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture, Lalami illuminates how conditional citizens are all those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.
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Random House USA Inc Five Days
Book Synopsis“An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray . . . Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account.”—Publishers Weekly FINALIST FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore and governor-elect of Maryland, a kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an “illegal knife” in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated “roughly” as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like the final straw—it led to a week of protests, then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge and caught the nation''s attention. Wes Moore is a Rhodes Scholar, bestselling author, decorated combat veteran, former White House fellow, and CEO of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty nonprofits in the nation. While attending Gray’s funeral, he saw every stratum of the city come together: grieving mothers, members of the city’s wealthy elite, activists, and the long-suffering citizens of Baltimore—all looking to comfort one another, but also looking for answers. He knew that when they left the church, these factions would spread out to their own corners, but that the answers they were all looking for could be found only in the city as a whole. Moore—along with journalist Erica Green—tells the story of the Baltimore uprising both through his own observations and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans: Partee, a conflicted black captain of the Baltimore Police Department; Jenny, a young white public defender who’s drawn into the violent center of the uprising herself; Tawanda, a young black woman who’d spent a lonely year protesting the killing of her own brother by police; and John Angelos, scion of the city’s most powerful family and executive vice president of the Baltimore Orioles, who had to make choices of conscience he’d never before confronted. Each shifting point of view contributes to an engrossing, cacophonous account of one of the most consequential moments in our recent history, which is also an essential cri de coeur about the deeper causes of the violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath.
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