This is a comparison of the process of democratization in Chile and Argentina. Utilizing models of citizenship, the book examines the impact of constitutional change, institutional development and participation in both political parties and social movements from the perspective …
In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American …
Tells the story of threats to our freedoms and a highly personal, impassioned plea in defence of fundamental rights. Drawing on her own work in high-profile campaigns, from privacy laws to anti-terror legislation, the author shows the threats to our democratic institutions and w…
Identity recognition of individuals by the groups they are born into or wish to affiliate themselves with has been a universal human experience but any registration documentation has received little scholarly attention. This introduction to a new subject presents a wide-ranging …
This book traces the evolution of FBI spying from 1965 to the present, through the eyes of those under investigation, and through numerous FBI documents, never used before in scholarly writing, that were recently declassified using the Freedom of Information Act or released duri…
A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance. 'The Art of Protest', first published in 2006, was hailed as an "essen…
Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. This book offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different regimes, be they au…
In this prize-winning book, a leading scholar of constitutional law shows how American law has both reflected and defined what it means to be American, to "belong to America". Kenneth L. Karst shows that the ideal of equal citizenship has long been a vital part of the culture of…
Middle-class progressives in the early twentieth century wanted to transform a corrupt and chaotic industrial America into an "authentic" democracy, but they were arguably led astray by their privilege. Focused on enhancing the voices of individuals, generations of progressives …
An analysis of globalization and the global structuring of violence. In particular, the contributors investigate the complex processes of cultural fragmentation and of the formation of transnational networks: economic, social and cultural. In a critical introductory essay, Jonat…
Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book explores the relationship between space, law and gendered…
This volume assembles leading scholars from a range of disciplines to debate multiculturalism in theory and practice. The volume is grouped around four central questions raised by multiculturalism: is universalism ethnocentric?; does multiculturalism threaten citizenship?; do mi…
Human rights: Politics and practice
Human Rights: Politics and Practice is the most comprehensive, most topical, and most student-friendly introduction to human rights. Bringing together a range of international experts including political scientists, philosophers, lawyers, and policy-makers, the book provides stu…
The field of surveillance studies is fuelled by an interest in the questions that lie at its heart. What information is held about us, and to what extent that information is secure? This book examines these questions from the perspective of sociology, management research, law, l…