Children's health and children's rights
Examines critically some of the pertinent and controversial issues relating to children, medicine and health care. This book deals with some of the controversies about children and their rights. The focus is on such issues as anorexia, circumcision, autism, and gender reassignme…
This work is concerned with the regulation of family relationships with particular reference to the issue of contact in the many different contexts in which it may arise.
Product description-- Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon's acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of rights in America and shows how it has captured the nation's devotion to individualism and liberty, but omitted the Ameri…
Product description-- Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon's acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of rights in America and shows how it has captured the nation's devotion to individualism and liberty, but omitted the Ameri…
Throughout a recording career that spanned 1943–2002 and engaged with diverse styles and instrumentations, jazz drummer Max Roach (1924–2007) transcended canonical compartmentalization. Readings of Roach fall into two camps, each demonstrating methodological issues that have mut…
Spanning multiple fields of scholarly inquiry, the bulk of this study concerns itself with competing notions of sovereignty, citizenship, boundary-making, and belonging in twentieth and twenty-first century Indigenous North America. Situated at the productive confluence of Borde…
This study seeks to answer two central questions: (1) Why are modern Muslim scholars using the 'Constitution' of Medina to establish the origins of democracy in Islam? And (2) Do these scholars merit being called "apologists for Islam," the label critics commonly give to anyone …
1.1 Cosmopolis m Political Theory. 1.2 Territorial Constraints of Politics. 2.1 Nominal and Substantial Citizenship. 2.2 Territory and Residence. 2.3 Descent and Family Membership. 3.1 Varieties of Consent. 3.2 Hobbes - Consent in Subjection. 3.3 Rousseau - Consent in Par…
In this book, the author argues that citizenship rights will have to extend beyond nationality and state territory if liberal democracies are to remain true to their own principles of inclusive membership and equal basic rights. Definition and extension of citizenship rights are…
The central question I address is whether the inclusion of a right to subsistence among human rights can be justified. The human right to subsistence is conventionally interpreted as a fundamental right to a basic living standard characterized as having access to the material me…
Provides a critique of liberal rights exposing the paradox between 'good' capitalism and the reality of its actions. Mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, …
This dissertation examines the link between the rise of both the US as the most important world power, and human rights as the most compelling discourse of global morality during and immediately after the Second World War. In particular, I argue that the rhetorical commitment to…
The ethnic-based violent conflict in Southern Thailand, which intensified in 2004, has resulted in over 5,300 deaths and thousands of injuries, where nearly 160 killed have been teachers and education workers (Al Jazeera, 2013). Today, assimilation and discrimination policies en…
This thesis presents an alternative way of approaching and analyzing practices that are criticized on the basis of human rights and defended on the basis of culture. I illustrate the thesis through the case of early marriage. Rather than reinforcing the dichotomous debate betwee…