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  • Human Rights as Battlefields

    Changing Practices and Contestations

    Edited by Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, Sylvie Paquerot ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions. This translation, in turn, contributes to modifying the scope and understanding of human rights. Ultimately, these battlefields express the legitimacy encounter of different versions of human ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

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    Protecting Culture and the Environment

    Edited by Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall, Christine Frison ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected.With Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) or Community Protocols (CPs) being increasingly seen as a powerful way of tackling this immense challenge, this book ... Read more

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  • Civil Society and International Governance

    The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East

    Edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most ... Read more

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  • Alter-Globalization

    Becoming Actors in a Global Age

    by Geoffrey Pleyers ...
    Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-liberal form, have developed new ways to become actors in the global age. They propose alternatives to Washington Consensus policies, implement horizontal and participatory organization models and promote a nascent global public space.Rather ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • In the Name of Women's Rights

    The Rise of Femonationalism

    by Sara R. Farris ...
    Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as “femonationalism.” She shows that by ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law

    by Ronald Niezen ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    In this powerful, timely study Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective rights are defended in international law. Niezen argues that cultivating support on behalf of those experiencing human rights violations often calls for strategic representations of injustice and suffering to distant audiences. The positive impulse behind public responses to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Education and Neoliberal Globalization

    by Carlos Alberto Torres ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. The first section of the book offers analytical avenues to understand and criticize the practices and ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Global Urban Politics

    Informalization of the State

    by Julie-Anne Boudreau ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the StateIn what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions.Organized thematically, the book examines urban social movements, diversity politics, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Liberating Temporariness?

    Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity

    by Valerie Preston, Robert Latham, Leah Vosko ...
    Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness - in recognition of why pathways ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • A Place to Call Home

    Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona

    by Ernesto Castañeda ...
    As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barriers, to differing social norms, to legal boundaries separating them from established residents, they are constantly navigating shifting and contradictory expectations both to assimilate to their new culture and to honor their native one. In A Place to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State

    Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship

    by David Paternotte ...
    By analyzing the relationship between lesbian and gay movements and the state, this ground-breaking book addresses two interconnected issues: to what extent is the lesbian and gay movement influenced by the state and, to a lesser extent, whether the lesbian and gay movement has somehow influenced the state, for instance by altering forms of sexual regulation. Given the diversity in national ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

    Edited by Marie-Claire Foblets, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, Olaf Zenker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology. Each of the chapters in the Handbook provides a survey of the current state of scholarly debate and an argument about the future direction of research in this ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD