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This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights. It traces, under the lens of the body, how the state and the subject mutually constituted each other since their original crafting in the seventeenth century. Considering multiple sites of theory and practice, Charlotte Epstein analyses the fundamental rights to security, liberty, and property respectively as the initial knots where the state-subject relation was first sealed.

Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it's not? Perhaps it is not the end goal but, rather, a transition stage to something better. Drawing on original interviews conducted with citizens of more than thirty countries, Zizi Papacharissi explores what democracy is, what it means to be a citizen, and what can be done to enhance governance.0 As she probes the ways governments can better serve their citizens and evolve in positive ways, Papacharissi gives a voice to everyday people, whose ideas and experiences of capitalism, media, and education can help shape future governing practices. This book expands on the well-known difficulties of realizing the intimacy of democracy in a global world-the "democratic paradox"-and presents a concrete vision of how communications technologies can be harnessed to implement representative equality, information equality, and civic literacy.

• Introduction : human rights in the Americas / Luz Angélica Kirschner, María Herrera-Sobek, and Francisco A. Lomelí
• Human rights in the Americas : a stony path / Josef Raab
• Constructing rights and empires in the early Americas : the parallel reception histories of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Cotton Mather / Philipp Reisner
• Maps of violence, maps of resistance, or, Where is home in the Americas? / Roland Walter
• The human rights situation in Central America through the lens of literary representation and violence / Xaver Daniel Hergenröther
• Rebellion, repression, reform : U.S. Marines in the Dominican Republic / Breanne Robertson
• Black women writers in the Americas : the struggle for human rights in the context of coloniality / Isabel Caldeira
• Autobiography, fiction, and racial hatred : representation in Jamaica Kincaid's See now then / Gonçalo Cholant
• The rebirth of the myth of the American hero and feminism / Rita Santos
• Dancing resistance, controlling singing and right to name heritage : Mexican indigenous autonomy, p'urepecha, practices, and United Nations / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
• Carey McWilliams's activism and the democratic human rights tradition / María José Canelo
• The ontogenesis of fear in Héctor Tobar's The barbarian nurseries / Alexander Ullman
• Brazilian quilombos : castaínho and its struggle for human rights / Wellington Marinho de Lira
• Capá Prieto and the decolonial Afro-Latin(a/o) American imagination / Luz Angélica Kirschner
• 'We got Latin soul' : transbarrio dialogues and Afro-Latin identity formation in New York's Puerto Rican community during the age of Black Power (1966-1972) / Matti Steinitz
• From racism to speciesism : the question of the freedom of the other in the works of J.M. Coetzee and Jure Detela / Marjetka Golež Kauĉiĉ
• To be or not to be human : the plasticity of posthuman rights / Nicole Sparling Barco.

'The League against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives' explores the dramatic and engaging story of a global institution that brought together activists across geographical and political borders for the goal of eradicating colonial rule worldwide. The League against Imperialism attracted anticolonial activists like India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia's Sukarno, and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, as well as prominent figures like Albert Einstein, Ernst Toller, Romain Rolland, Upton Sinclair, Mohandas Gandhi, and Madame Sun Yat-Sen. This volume is the first to capture the global history of the LAI by bringing together contributions by scholars researching the movement from various regions, languages, and archives. Told primarily from the perspectives of those on the peripheries of empires, the volume argues that interwar anti-imperialism was central to the story of transnational activism during the interwar years and remained an inspiration for many who took on leadership roles during decolonization across the global south.

• Introduction: The country without a Quisling?
• "There are many Cains among us"
• Crowdsourcing genocide
• Hearts grown brutal
• The special courts
• Rewriting the narrative of the past
• Between politics and retribution
• The district courts
• Cold War considerations
• The principles of socialist humanism
• The math of amnesty
• Conclusion: The conspiracy of memory.

"When six years of resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new, Soviet-imposed rulers on little else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their collaborators. But as the process of postwar retribution began to unearth evidence of enthusiastic local participation in the Holocaust, the hated government, traumatized populace, and fiercely independent judiciary found themselves struggling to salvage a sanitized vision of the past that could serve as the basis for national unity. Long dismissed as Stalinist farce, Poland's 32,000 trials for collaboration were in fact a scrupulous, complex search for the truth. Making use of unpublished memoirs, interviews, ministerial archives, and hundreds of individual case files, The August Trials documents how trials became the crucible in which the communist state and an unyielding society hammered out the foundational myth of modern Poland"-- Provided by publisher.

• La République ? Non, merci !
• La République ? Pourquoi pas ?
• La République ? Oui, mais sous condition
• La République ? Jusqu'au bout
• La carrière politique de Tocqueville en quelques dates.

"Alexis de Tocqueville n'aimait pas la République. Il lui reprochait de porter atteinte aux libertés. Il lui préférait la monarchie parlementaire. Pourtant, au lendemain de la révolution de février 1848, il s'y rallie. Son acte est pragmatique. Dans la conjoncture politique troublée que connaît la France, et faute d'alternative royaliste, la République est, selon lui, le seul régime capable d'empêcher tant l'anarchie que la tyrannie. Mais son ralliement se fait à la condition que la République soit à la fois libérale et conservatrice. Cette république modérée, Tocqueville va tout faire pour l'installer. À savoir : s'efforcer d'influencer la rédaction de la Constitution du 4 novembre 1848, soutenir la candidature à l'élection présidentielle de Cavaignac, défendre une politique de paix à la tête du ministère des Affaires étrangères et enfin imaginer une solution pour éviter un coup d'État bonapartiste. Sur le moment, ces quatre combats républicains n'ont pas abouti. L'Empire a remplacé la République. Mais ils ont préparé l'avenir : ils ont permis le compromis de 1875 entre les monarchistes de centre droit et les républicains de centre gauche, et donc l'instauration de la Ille République. Finalement, sans l'aimer, Tocqueville aura fait autant pour la République française que ceux qui la portaient dans leur coeur."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: Freedom and its dark side
• Savage freedom : piracy, childhood, and alternate racial visions of liberty
• Lady of freedom, lady of whiteness : the Statue of Liberty as symbol of white freedom
• Black slavery, white freedom : freedom and race in the era of liberal revolution
• Empire, racial citizenship, and liberal democracy
• Fighting for whose liberty? : freedom and race in the era of total war
• Freedom now? : The fall and rise of white freedom during the Cold War
• Conclusion: White freedom and freedom from whiteness

The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white. Tyler Stovall explores the intertwined histories of racism and freedom in France and the United States, the two leading nations that have claimed liberty as the heart of their national identities. He explores how French and American thinkers defined freedom in racial terms and conceived of liberty as an aspect and privilege of whiteness. He discusses how the Statue of Liberty-a gift from France to the United States and perhaps the most famous symbol of freedom on Earth-promised both freedom and whiteness to European immigrants. Taking readers from the Age of Revolution to today, Stovall challenges the notion that racism is somehow a paradox or contradiction within the democratic tradition, demonstrating how white identity is intrinsic to Western ideas about liberty. Throughout the history of modern Western liberal democracy, freedom has long been white freedom. A major work of scholarship that is certain to draw a wide readership and transform contemporary debates, White Freedom provides vital new perspectives on the inherent racism behind our most cherished beliefs about freedom, liberty, and human rights.
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• Introduction
• Business and human rights : a new and contentious EU policy area
• Theoretical explanations for the domestic impact of EU law
• Research design
• Empirical analysis I: transposition of the directives -- Empirical analysis II : explanation of transposition variation
• Conclusion

This book explores how and why the transposition of EU directives in the new and contentious policy area 'Business and Human Rights' differs between member states. It reveals the extent to which individual member states are pursuing diverging approaches in dealing with the 'discretionary space' in EU directives, and highlights theoretical and political explanations. Drawing on historical institutionalism and rational choice institutionalism, the book establishes a link between the degree of corporatism in a given political economy and government behaviour in terms of Business and Human Rights policy. Moreover, it identifies political salience within the policy subsystem as a pertinent factor for explaining national transposition outcomes. .
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• Justice and unjusticiability : perspectives and issues between history and comparison / Ermanno Calzolaio, Luigi Lacchè
• Denial of justice and forms of responsibility of the judge : paradigms of non-justiciability in the modern age / Giuseppe Mecca
• Si iudex non facit iustitiam : equity (aequitas, billichkeit) reconsidered / Ulrike Müßig
• The never-ending debate on the 'non-justiciability' of social rights / Erik Longo
• Injusticiabilité et souveraineté / Pierre Serrand
• L'injusticiabilité devant le Conseil constitutionnel / Vanessa Barbé
• L'injusticiabilité de la crise constitutionnelle polonaise : contribution à la théorie normativiste du droit / Wojciech Zagorski

• Introduction: Sympathetic resentment
• Vicious passions : resentment and sociability before Butler
• Innocent resentment, sympathy, and liberal duty in Butler
• Sympathizing with injustice : Hume on resentment
• Coping with resentment : spectatorial resentment and spontaneous disorder in Smith
• Conclusion: Resentment reconsidered

We typically think of resentment as an unjustifiable and volatile emotion, responsible for fostering the worst political divisions. Recognizing Resentment argues instead that sympathy with the resentment of victims of injustice is vital for upholding justice in liberal societies, as it entails recognition of the equal moral and political status of those with whom we sympathize. Sympathizing with the resentment of others makes us alive to injustice in a way no rational recognition of wrongs alone can, and it motivates us to demand justice on others' behalves. This book rehabilitates arguments for the moral and political worth of resentment developed by three influential thinkers in the early liberal tradition - Joseph Butler, David Hume, and Adam Smith - and uses these to advance a theory of spectatorial resentment, discussing why we should be indignant about the injustice others face, and how such a shared sentiment can actually bring liberal citizens closer together.
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• Introduction
• The socio-economic and political history of Afghanistan and its impact on human agency
• The concept of empowerment : building human agency
• Research methodology
• Smart strategy : productive power
• Conclusion

This study investigates how human security manifests itself in the context of Afghanistan and explores the factors that promote and impede its development. Using development programs that focus on human security, this study investigates a particular approach (development of productive power) to human security implementation in a post-conflict reconstruction environment that has experienced numerous development programs designed and implemented to build communities and protect their security. The objective of this book is to move beyond a simple exploration of the causal relationship between human security, structures, and agency and, rather, investigate the factors the either promote or impede the implementation of human security. To that end, this study employs multiple methods of systematic inquiry and engages literature on the socio-economic and political context in Afghanistan in order to understand the factors that influence the agency of production, creativity, and control that individuals possess. This book will develop a contextual explanation of human security and understand how an increase in productive power (will be explained in detail), as an approach, can facilitate the implementation of human security. The book begins with illustration of human security concept with a particular focus on contextually defined concept of human security in Afghanistan. This part will further review the human security programs in Afghanistan since 2003 with a detailed description of the factors that impacted the implementation of the programs throughout the country. This part develops a framework for further explanation of the context followed in section I that includes Afghanistan's social, economic and political structure which could impact the implementation of human security programs.
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