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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century : A Living Document in a Changing World
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Abstract: The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration o...
Xinjiang Year Zero
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in'reeducation camps'in China's northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region. While the official reason for this mass detention was to pr...
Refugee Journeys : Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Refugee Journeys presents stories of how governments, the public and the media have responded to the arrival of people seeking asylum, and how these responses have impacted refugees and their lives. Mostly covering the period from 1970 to the present, ...
Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics : The Decline of the Political Offence Exception to Extradition
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Abstract: Recent atrocities have ensured that terrorism and how to deal with terrorists legally and politically has been the subject of much discussion and debate on the international stage. This book presents a study of changes in the legal treatment of those p...
Deliberation, Representation, Equity : Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: What can we learn about the development of public interaction in e-democracy from a drama delivered by mobile headphones to an audience standing around a shopping center in a Stockholm suburb? In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment ...
Remembrance, History, and Justice : Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies
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Abstract: The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, or collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often the premises for and the specters haunting the process of d...
The Humanist Imperative in South Africa
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Abstract: This book is an outcome of the conversation that occurred during the five days of intense discussion at two symposia initiated by the “New Humanism Project”. The struggle for a more humane society is both local and universal, and increasingly these are...
Disputing Citizenship
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Abstract: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Citizenship is always in dispute – in practice as well as in theory – but conventional perspectives do not address why the concept of citizenship is so contentious. This unique book presents a new perspecti...
Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering : The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new unde...
Distortion and Subversion : Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996-2011)
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Abstract: An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.At the turn of the 21st century, the Brazilian punk and hardcore music scene joined forces with political militants to foster a new so...