Category Archives: Civil Rights

Privacy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

It is widely recognized that our privacy is under threat. Electronic surveillance, biometrics, CCTV, ID cards, RFID codes, online security, encryption, the interception of email, the monitoring of employees–all raise fundamental questions about privacy. Legal expert Raymond Wacks here provides … Continue reading

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Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford Law Books)

Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing … Continue reading

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Post-Queer Politics (Queer Interventions)

In “Post-Queer Politics”, Ruffolo looks at the work of Foucault, Butler, Bakhtin, Deleuze, Guattari and others in his creative refocus on the queer/heteronormative dyad that has largely consumed queer studies and contemporary politics. He offers a radical and intersectional new … Continue reading

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Reasons of Identity: A Normative Guide to the Political and Legal Assessment of Identity Claims

The current legal and political context is perhaps more congenial than ever before to considering claims made by minorities for the protection of some aspect of their identity. This book argues that diverse societies depend for their success on having … Continue reading

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Achieving Human Rights

Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do – at the personal level as well as state actions – to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From … Continue reading

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World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty Is Vital to American National Security

Virtually every trouble spot on the planet has some sort of religious component. One need only consider Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and Palestine, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Russia, and China, to name but a few. Looming behind national issues, of … Continue reading

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The Future Governance of Citizenship (Law in Context)

In much of the citizenship literature it is often considered, if not simply assumed, that citizenship is integral to the character of a self-determining community and that this process, by definition, involves the exclusion of resident ‘foreigners’. Dora Kostakopoulou calls … Continue reading

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Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

Using a new conceptual framework, the author examines the processes of legal reform in post-socialist countries such as China. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of the ‘field’, the increasingly complex and contested processes of legal reform are analysed in relation to … Continue reading

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Press Censorship in Caroline England

Between 1625 and 1640, a distinctive cultural awareness of censorship emerged, which ultimately led the Long Parliament to impose drastic changes in press control. The culture of censorship addressed in this study helps to explain the divergent historical interpretations of … Continue reading

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Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice

Human rights ideals are at the pinnacle of contemporary social work practice and international political discourse. Yet in recent years, with the heightened threat of terrorism, we have begun to witness an erosion of many traditional civil liberties. Set against … Continue reading

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