New Books in Human Rights
Episodes
Benjamin Meiches, "Nonhuman Humanitarians: Animal Interventions in Global Politics" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Both critical and mainstream scholarly work on humanitarianism have largely been framed from anthropocentric perspectives highlighting humanity as the...
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why have issues of human rights become so contentious in Indonesia, 25 years after the much-heralded post-Suharto democratic transition? What kind of ...
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a m...
Irina Carlota Silber, "After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador" (Stanford UP, 2022)
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador (Stanford UP, 2022) builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of eth...
Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, "Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Advance Directives in Asia: A Socio-Legal Analysis (Cambridge UP, 2023) , edited by Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn is the first book to consider th...
Melissa Gatter, "Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency" (American University in Cairo Press, 2023)
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Azraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humanitarian refugee camps for Syrian refugees in Jordan...
Sarah Federman and Ronald Niezen, "Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Individuals can assume—and be assigned—multiple roles throughout a conflict: perpetrators can be victims, and vice versa; heroes can be reassessed...
Is Laos a Criminal State?: Kearrin Sims on the Current Status of Laos
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is a growing list of human rights abuses and acts of violence against those who have sought to promote political transparency and freedom in Lao...
Jacqueline Kinghan, "Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, descr...
Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, So...
Anne Irfan, "Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System" (Columbia UP, 2023)
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime that became central to the lives of displaced people around ...
Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, ...
Nicole Wegner, "Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) by Dr. Nicole Wegner is not a book about peacekeep...
Michael Magcamit, "Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts" (Oxford UP, 2022)
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts (Oxford UP, 2022) lays bare the causal mechanisms that lead state and non-state actors to identify...
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters...
Negotiating Decolonization: The Limits of a Fairy Tale
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, Valerie Rosoux, Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) discusses the disagre...
The Whys and Wherefores of Migration
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on International Horizons, James Hollifield, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern...
Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a dilemma. Should the Federal Republic deploy its military to the Ba...
Aarie Glas, "Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Southeast Asia and South America are regions made up of largely illiberal states lacking stabilizing great powers or collective identities. But despit...
Nerina Weiss et al., "The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World" (Routledge, 2022)
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nerina Weiss. Erella Grassiani, and Linda Green's book The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World (Routledge, 2022) focuses on t...
Locating Human Dignity in Cambodia: Prospects for Human Rights Education
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of human dignity is a foundational one within human rights discourses, and is commonly used in the context of human rights and sustainable...
Daniel Ruiz-Serna, "When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories" (Duke UP, 2023)
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press, 2023) Daniel Ruiz-Serna follo...
Cristina-Ioana Dragomir, "Power on the Move: Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout centuries of persecution and marginalization, the Roma and Adivasi have been viewed as both victims and fighters, as royals and paupers, be...
Bedross Der Matossian, "Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial...
The Future of Guantanamo: A Discussion with James Connell
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will Guantanamo ever be closed down? Some people are still there – all these years after 9/11. So why are they still held and when will it end? Jam...
Ewelina U. Ochab and David Alton, "State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change It" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change it (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) Dr Ewelina U. Ochab and Lord Alton of ...
Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her b...
Shanee Stepakoff, "Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone" (Bucknell UP, 2021)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Content note: This episode contains discussions of violence, including rape and mutilation Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes t...
Yvan Yenda Ilunga, "Humanitarianism and Security: Trouble and Hope at the Heart of Africa" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Humanitarianism and Security: Trouble and Hope at the Heart of Africa (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) contends that the search for stability and peace re...
Kaamil Ahmed, "I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers" (Hurst, 2023)
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Rohingya population, from Myanmar’s Rakhine State, are a community almost living entirely in exile, whether in refugee camps in Bangladesh, or w...
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough” were the infamous words U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in 1927. In Buck v...
Francy Carranza-Franco, "Demobilisation and Reintegration in Colombia: Building State and Citizenship" (Routledge, 2020)
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Francy Carranza-Franco's Demobilisation and Reintegration in Colombia: Building State and Citizenship (Routledge, 2020) investigates disarmament, de...
Barbara Sjoholm, "From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Material objects—things made, used, and treasured—tell the story of a people and place. So it is for the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden...
Zoha Waseem, "Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi" (Oxford UP, 2022)
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial...
Erin McFee and Angelika Rettberg Beil, "Ex-Combatants and Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP in Colombia" (Ediciones Uniandes, 2019)
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This book carries out a multidisciplinary analysis of different aspects of the peace process between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Ar...
Kate Cronin-Furman, "Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities" (Cornell UP, 2022)
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities (Cornell University Press, 2022) examines what human rights pressure does wh...
Gwen Burnyeat, "The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize...
Oliver Slow, "Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Myanmar coup on February 1, 2021 shocked the world, and ended an opening that had fostered hopes for democratization and economic development. The...
Ronald Niezen, "The Memory Seeker" (Black Rose Writing, 2023)
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Memory Seeker is a novel that, drawing upon Professor Ronald Niezen's background in researching human rights, takes on the experiences of war vi...
Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a foren...
Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human di...
Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alex Hinton, "Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side" (Stanford UP, 2023)
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state a...
Jacob A. C. Remes and Andy Horowitz, "Critical Disaster Studies" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster stud...
Uddipana Goswami, "Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency" (Routledge, 2022)
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency (Routledge, 2022) forward Assam (and Northeast India) as a spe...
Anjan Sundaram, "Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime" (Catapult, 2023)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning journalist who has written three books on African people and places: Democratic Republic of Congo in Stringer, Rw...
Julia Kowalski, "Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from...
Melanie 0'Brien, "From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens" (Routledge, 2022)
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie 0'Brien's book From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens (Routledge, 2022) studies the process of genocide ...
Sherine Tadros, "Taking Sides: A Memoir about Love, War, and Changing the World" (Scribe, 2023)
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Taking Sides: A Memoir about Love, War, and Changing the World (Scribe, 2023) is a personal memoir by Sherine Tadros, the United Nations Representati...
Miriam Bak Mckenna, "Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law" (Brill, 2022)
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Miriam Bak McKenna is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University (Denmark). Her first monograph, ...
The Role of Global South Women in Shaping Global Governance
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on International Horizons, Ellen Chesler interviews Rebecca Adami and Fatima Sator, editor and co-author of Women and the UN: A New History...
Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the first months of the pandemic, governments worldwide agreed that ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was th...
Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in suc...
Ulrike Krause, "Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains dif...
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why are people judged on whether or not they are compelling? Why isn’t telling the truth enough? What are people really listening for when others sh...
Jeffrey S. Bachman, "The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why have the founding members of the United Nations (the P5) evaded accountability for their crimes of genocide? Jeff Bachman, of the American Univers...
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a...
Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a world awash in “fake news,” where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across t...
Elora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory, Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in...
Stephanie Wolfe and Matthew Kane, "In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda" (Routledge, 2023)
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Wolfe and Matthew Kane's In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda (Routledge, 2023) brings together scholars and practi...
Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Why do we think about some practices as work, and not others? Why do we classify certain capacities as economically valuable skills, and others as in...
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jonathan Herring makes an argument that suicidal people have a right to be protected from committing suicide, and that the state should be u...
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Henry Holt, 2023) is the inside story of a worldwide investi...
Lisa Hajjar, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture" (U California Press, 2022)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture (University of California Press, 2022) by Dr. Lisa Hajjar examines how hundreds of lawyers mo...
Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Comfort women" or ianfu is the euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they compelled to do sex work in the Second World War. The role ...
Martin Scott and Kate Wright, "Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone" (Routledge, 2022)
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can the news better reflect important global issues? In Humanitarian Journalists Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone (Routledge, 2022), Drs M...
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propens...
Border Lines: Refugees and the International Order
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change and war have flung millions of people on the move, who often seek safe harbor in the very countries responsible for their displacement....
Benedict Rogers, "The China Nexus: Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny" (Optimum Publishing, 2022)
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny (Optimum Publishing, 2022) brings together Benedict Rogers' 30 ye...
Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of the Second World War, Central and East European governments-in-exile struggled to make their voices heard as they reported back to the...
Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. In Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of ...
Eric A. Stanley, "Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable" (Duke UP, 2021)
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Content note: This episode contains discussions of suicide, as well as allusions to graphic anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Black violence Advances in LGBTQ r...
Randle C. DeFalco, "Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
International criminal justice is, at its core, an anti-atrocity project. Yet just what an 'atrocity' is remains undefined and undertheorized. Randle...
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By any reasonable metric, prisons as they exist in the United States and in many other countries are normatively unacceptable. What is the proper mora...
Ron Kronish, "Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (2022)
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbi Ron Kronish spent thirty years directing the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI), an interfaith organization devoted to promoti...
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is medical assistance in dying, or MAID letting the government off the hook from providing what they should be providing? Should we respect people's c...
Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How has digitalisation changed Russian politics? How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed Russia studies? What is special about Russia’s appro...
Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The boundary that once protected our intimate lives from outside interests is an artefact of the 20th century. In the 21st, we have embraced a vast ar...
Elaine Pearson, "Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World (Simon & Schuster, 2022) by Elaine Pearson, the Asia Director at Hum...
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2020)
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict (Cornell UP, 2020), Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequence...
Salvador Santino F. Regilme and Irene Hadiprayitno, "Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Rutgers University Press, 2022) is a fascinating book that brin...
Ruti G. Teitel, "Transitional Justice" (Oxford UP, 2000)
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Societies that are throwing off the yoke of authoritarian rule and beginning to build democracies face a daunting question: should they punish the rep...
Alexander Laban Hinton, "Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal" (Cornell UP, 2022)
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022) tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accus...
The Future of Multiculturalism: A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is the best way to achieve societal harmony in a place in which groups of people with different identities are living together. Should minority g...
Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy" (Viking, 2022)
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Should everyone have privacy in their personal lives? Can privacy exist in a public place? Is there a right to be left alone, even in the United State...
Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, "Genocide: Key Themes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Bloxham and Dirk Moses have offered us a unique opportunity--a chance to see authors and editors in conversation with each other and themselves...
Lynette H. Ong, "Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contempora...
Anita Guerrini, "Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Experimentation on animals—particularly humans—is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. But the ideas and attitudes that encourage bio...
Matthew Crain, "Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily pr...
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in Myan...
Andrew S. Rosenberg, "Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration" (Princeton UP, 2022)
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restrictio...
Bree Akesson and Andrew R. Basso, "From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are currently a record-setting number of forcibly displaced persons in the world. This number continues to rise as solutions to alleviate humani...
Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey, "Mexico's Human Rights Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the act...
Nicholas Micinski, "Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union (U Michigan Press, 2022) explores the politics of migration i...
Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been ...
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An alienated society divided into groups and classes suspicious of one another does not pose an especially great problem for an authoritarian regime t...
Sustainable Agriculture in the Global South: A Religious Response to the Global Food Crisis
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Micha Odenheimer is the founder and director of Tevel B’Zedek, an Israeli NGO that aims to create Israeli and Jewish leadership passionately engag...
Lucy Series, "Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution" (Bristol UP, 2022)
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Lucy Series Deprivations of Liberty in The Shadows of the Institution (Bristol University Press, 2022) is one that I have long been looking forw...
Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana" (U California Press, 2022)
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (University of California Press, 2022) is an ethnogr...
Josh Bowsher, "The Informational Logic of Human Rights" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed into data, and victims become ve...
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa (Oxford UP, 2020), Peace A. Medie studies the domestic impl...