Demanding Rights: Europe's Supranational Courts and the Dilemma of Migrant Vulnerability (Baumgrtel Moritz)(Paperback)

Demanding Rights: Europe's Supranational Courts and the Dilemma of Migrant Vulnerability (Baumgrtel Moritz)(Paperback)

While nominally protected across Europe, the human rights of vulnerable migrants often fail to deliver their promised benefits in practice. This socio-legal study explores both the concrete expressions and possible causes of this persistent deficit. For this purpose, it presents an innovative

Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (Bada Xchitl)(Paperback)

Collecting the diverse perspectives of scholars, labor organizers, and human-rights advocates, Accountability across Borders is the first edited collection that connects studies of immigrant integration in host countries to accounts of transnational migrant advocacy efforts, including case studies

Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (Daly Erin)(Paperback)

Originally published in 2012, Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world. In it, Erin Daly shows how dignity has come not only to define specific interests like the right to humane treatment or to earn a living wage, but also to protect the basic

Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (Pick Anat)(Paperback)

Simone Weil once wrote that 'the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence,' establishing a relationship between vulnerability, beauty, and existence transcending the separation of species. Her conception of a radical ethics and aesthetics could be

Pastoralism in Africa's drylands - reducing risks, addressing vulnerability and enhancing resilience (Food and Agriculture Organization)(Paperback / softback)

Investigates the situation of pastoralism, highlighting its current context of vulnerability. The report outlines policy interventions, resilience programming, and research areas that could enhance the resilience of pastoral livelihoods

Village Dilemma (Shaw Rebecca)(Paperback / softback)

A dilemma divides the village...From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Turnham Malpas and Barleybridge

The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics (Booth Ken)(Paperback)

This provides the first comprehensive analysis of the concept of the 'security dilemma'. By exploring the theory and practice of the security dilemma through the prisms of fear, cooperation and trust, it considers whether the security dilemma can be mitigated or even transcended analysing a wide

Human Rights and the Internet (Liddicoat Joy)(Paperback)

This book is a short and accessible introduction to the concepts of human rights, the Internet and the emergence of an era of human rights online as a new legal

Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's 'Migrant Crisis' (Squire Vicki)(Paperback)

Reclaiming migration assesses the EU's migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced,

Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Meacham Jon)(Paperback)

A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present--including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis Editor Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by

The Cromwell Enigma: A Tudor Mystery (Wilson Derek)(Paperback)

July 1540. The courts of Europe are stunned to hear that Henry VIII has executed his all-powerful minister, Thomas Cromwell. Poet and classicist Nicholas Bourbon is sent from the cultured court of Queen Marguerite of Navarre to investigate. Thrust into a turbulent world of religious, political and

Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth (Shiva Vandana)(Paperback)

Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate

Human Rights in the Age of Platforms (Jorgensen Rikke Frank)(Paperback)

Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society.Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information,

Why Human Rights in Childbirth Matter (Schiller Rebecca)(Paperback)

Why Human Rights in Childbirth explores the rights of women in pregnancy and birth, and offers information and support for mothers, caregivers and campaigners working to improve birth practices and birth experiences. Rebecca Schiller is co-chair of the human rights in childbirth charity Birthrights

Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (Donaldson Sue)(Paperback)

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of

Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice (Luna Zakiya)(Paperback)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative

The Sociology of Children's Rights (Gran Brian)(Paperback)

Children's rights appear universal, inalienable, and indivisible. They are intended to advance young people's interests, especially the welfare of vulnerable children. Yet in practice, evidence suggests the contrary: the international framework of treaties, procedures, and national policies

Scotland's Foreshore: Public Rights, Private Rights and the Crown 1840 - 2017 (Macaskill John)(Paperback)

The story of the Crown's challenge to Scottish foreshore ownershipThe ownership of Scotland's foreshore has been a matter of a prolonged controversy. In the past, the debate centered on whether the shore was owned by the Crown or by adjacent proprietors and on how, and by whom, Crown-owned

Defending Animal Rights (Regan Tom)(Paperback)

More than a contest of wills representing professional and economic interests, the animal rights debate is also an enduring topic in normative ethical theory. 'Defending Animal Rights' addresses the key isues in this sometimes acrimonious

Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (Cook Rebecca J.)(Paperback)

Human Rights of Women National and International Perspectives Edited by Rebecca J. Cook 'The multiple perspectives offered by this collection of eminently readable and interesting papers make it a valuable resource for upper-division classes in women's studies, international relations, and

I Wish I Could Say Thank You (Takinami Yukari)(Paperback)

The creator is telling the story of the loss of her own mother, a difficult and demanding woman, and the strains it places on the individual family members. It is not told in any maudlin manner but rather in an everyday, matter-of-fact way which best describes this all-too-common situation. The

Politics of White Rights: Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools (Bagley Joseph)(Paperback)

In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954-73 taught Alabama's segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense

Texts and Materials on International Human Rights (Smith Rhona K. M.)(Paperback)

Texts and Materials on International Human Rights offers a carefully tailored overview of the subject that covers sources and theories, institutions and structures, and substantive rights. The fourth edition is fully updated to include all key developments in the law, in particular issues around