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Rethinking equality
Manchester University Press 2006; US$ 95.00Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Do contemporary theories of equality provide an adequate response to the inequalities that afflict contemporary societies? And what is the connection between theories of equality and the contemporary politics of citizenship? Accessible... more...
Supranational citizenship
Manchester University Press 2006; US$ 95.00Can we conceptualise a kind of citizenship that need not be of a nation-state, but might be of a variety of political frameworks? Bringing together political theory with debates about European integration, international relations and the changing nature of citizenship, this book offers a coherent and innovative theorisation of a citizenship independent... more...
Refugee Repatriation
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00Uses the tools of political, legal, moral and historical analysis to describe a 'just return' process for repatriating refugees. more...
Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 65.00Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give... more...
Ethnicity, Citizenship and State in Eastern Africa
Langaa RPCIG 2011; US$ 26.95This volume, from an Africa perspective, examines the relationship between ethnicity and citizenship within the framework of nation-state. Its objective and scope engage relational aspects of political integration, awaken public conscience, and motivate civic engagement. It provides a platform that could be considered prerequisite for political transformation.... more...
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings
The University Press of Kentucky 2013; US$ 40.00The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wake of the southern student sit-ins, CORE created new chapters all over the country, including one in Brooklyn, New York, which quickly established itself as one of the most audacious and dynamic chapters... more...
Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory phenomena and national and supra-national forms of belonging, introducing the new concept of sensory... more...
Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean
Taylor and Francis 1986; US$ 69.95This volume is the second of the three-volume edition of the proceedings of an international conference on Legacies of West Indian Slavery held at the University of Hull in July 1983 to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Its focus is on the contemporary Caribbean and the omnipresent legacies of slavery... more...
Gender Regimes, Citizen Participation and Rural Restructuring
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 135.00Explores the interface between the conceptual frameworks of welfare state, gender regime research and rural gender studies more...
The Civil Rights Movement
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 30.00Brown v Board of Education of Topeka case of 1954, declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional, the civil rights movement began to gain momentum. This book spotlights the rise of the civil rights movement, offering a look at one of the remarkable and influential movements in US history. more...









