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"Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This distinctively comparative collection examines the concept of HRV against women in gener…
"How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting new forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves t…
"This book is about multiculturalism, broadly defined as the recognition, respect and accommodation of cultural differences. Teo proposes a framework of multicultural denizenship that includes group-specific rights and intercultural dialogue, by problematising three issues: a) t…
"Legal Pluralism in Conflict offers a new theoretical perspective for conceptualising and analysing the relationship between ethnic minority laws and the official legal order." "Examining the limits of liberal legal thought in light of a contemporary plurality of ethnic identifi…
"Tanya Katerí Hernández's "Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination" addresses tensions and contradictions within the issues of discrimination and racial mixture. It explores multiracial discrimination in such areas as employment, education and crimina…
The fall and rise of blasphemy law
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"This collection centers around two trends that currently influence freedom of expression. The first trend confirms the fact that many Western countries have become, over a long period of time, less strict about sacrilegious expression. In the process, many repealed their blasph…
"In this provocative study of the task of English-Canadian philosophy, Ian Angus contends that English Canada harbours a secret and unofficial dream of self-rule that is revealed through critiques of empire. Looking at the main tensions between local dwelling and the globalized …
"In A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturism, Christopher Douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds." "Ultimately, Douglas's "unified field theo…
Refugees and migration are not a new story in the history of humankind, but in the last few years, against a backdrop of huge numbers of migrants, especially from war-torn countries, they have again been a topic of intensive and contentious discussion in politics, the media and …
Refugees and migration are not a new story in the history of humankind, but in the last few years, against a backdrop of huge numbers of migrants, especially from war-torn countries, they have again been a topic of intensive and contentious discussion in politics, the media and …
Set against conventional views of Peru as a place where indigenous mobilization has been absent, this book examines the complex, contentious politics between intercultural activists, local Andean indigenous community members, state officials, non-governmental organizations, and …
In Making Yugoslavs, Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of the dictatorship'ss program of forced nationalization. Focusing on how ordinary Yugoslavs responded to Aleksandar'ss nationalization project, the book illuminates an often-ign…
Upon winning the 2005 presidential election, Evo Morales became the first indigenous person to lead Bolivia since the arrival of the Spanish more than five hundred years before. Morales's election is the culmination of a striking new kind of activism in Bolivia. Born out of a hi…
Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries, but sociocultural diversity increasingly renders this view obsolete. The 'state-nation' is a concept that seeks to accommodate distinct ethnic & cu…