Tracing social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees, Sovereignty in Exile reveals the dynamics of a postcolonial liberation movement that has endured for decades in the deserts of North Africa while trying to bring about the revolutionary transformation of a society which identifies with a Bedouin past.
Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey
Zerrin Özlem Biner
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828634
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
States of Dispossession highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession and the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds remember, experience, and live with the remains of a violence that is still unfolding.
In Divided Unions, Alexis N. Walker argues that excluding public sector workers from the foundation of U.S. labor law, the Wagner Act of 1935, created divisions within the labor movement that have had lasting consequences for the size, strength, and influence of organized labor in American politics.
P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the first biography of P. C. Chang (1892-1957), who lived an eventful and cosmopolitan life and was one of the key writers of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, responsible for its defining features of universality and religious ecumenism.
U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed
Stephen R. Porter
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9781512824759
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Stephen Porter examines political-refugee aid initiatives and related humanitarian endeavors led by American people and institutions from World War I through the Cold War. The supporters of these endeavors presented the United States as a new kind of world power, a Benevolent Empire.
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, recognizes everyone’s right to “share in scientific advancement and its benefits.” Helle Porsdam analyzes the legal stature of this right, the consequences of not establishing it as fundamental, and its connection to global cultural rights.
This second edition of Human Rights in Latin America explores the dynamics underlying a vast range of human rights initiatives. Ample supplementary resources—including discussion questions, interdisciplinary reading lists, filmographies, and online resources—make this an especially valuable text for use in the classroom.
Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Deborah A. Thomas
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253672
Pub Date: January 2022
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
What does it mean to claim, two decades into the twenty-first century, that citizenship is on the edge? The essays in this volume argue that citizenship cannot be conceptualized as a transcendent good but must instead always be contextualized within specific places and times, and in relation to dynamic struggle.
Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Malini Sur
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224788
Pub Date: August 2021
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh and their efforts to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend.
