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Women and the UN : a new history of women's international human rights
This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to the international human rights of women throughout the world today. From the founding of the UN and the Latin American feminist move…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003036708
- Collation
- xviii, 200 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 323.34 WOM R
Vital subjects : race and biopolitics in Italy, 1860-1920
Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the "making" of Italians as modern political subjects in the years between its administrative unification (1861–1870) and the end of the Fir…
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- edision 14
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781781382868
- Collation
- ix. :304 p. ;ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 900. VIT r
Revolution and disenchantment : arab marxism and the binds of emancipation
The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist …
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- edision 14
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478007586
- Collation
- xi. :281 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 320.5315095692. REV f
Opposing power : building opposition alliances in electoral autocracies
Opposing Power argues that perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency by opposition elites shape the building of opposition alliances. When electoral autocracies are consistently dominant, opposition parties eschew fully fledged alliances. At best, they allocate only one candidate to contest against the incumbent in each subnational electoral district to avoid splitting the oppos…
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- edision 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472133000
- Collation
- xiii. :313 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 322.4. OPP e
Contested legitimacies : repression and revolt in post-revolutionary egypt
Since the military overthrow of President Mursi in mid-2013, Egypt has witnessed an authoritarian rollback. Through a combination of repression and nationalist securitizing discourses, popular pressure for reform was successfully channelled into a state-centric model of governance. But despite state violence and the restriction of public spaces, protests have anything but ceased. Contested Legi…
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- edision 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048553457
- Collation
- 353 p. ;ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.962. CON j
Marxisms in the 21st century : crisis, critique & struggle
The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It revolves around four primary factors: the importance of democracy for an emancipatory project; the …
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781776147052
- Collation
- vi, 304p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 307.14 BON m
Building the Inclusive City : Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformatio…
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be si…
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- -
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- 9783030329884
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- xvii, 169 p. ill;
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- -
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- 307.1216095357 BUI V
Translating human rights in education : the influence of Article 24 UN CRPD i…
The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) is the first human rights treaty to explicitly acknowledge the right to education for persons with disabilities. In order to realize this right, the convention’s Article 24 mandates state parties to ensure inclusive education systems that overcome outright exclusion as well as segregation in special educat…
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- 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472902705
- Collation
- xv, 206p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 371.909669 TRA b
Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist : A Multilevel Analysis of Involvement…
How and why do people become involved in European homegrown jihadism? This book addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for containing the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed in November 2004 in Amsterdam, and for plotting numerous other terrorist attacks. The Hofstadgroup offers a window into the broader phenomenon of homegrown jiha…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789462986930
- Collation
- 287 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 363.3 BEC B
The Merger Mystery : Why Spend Ever More on Mergers When So Many Fail?
Statistical studies over the last forty-five years show that, although there are success stories, very many mergers and acquisitions do not result in the increased operating profits that economics textbooks would lead one to expect. As consultancy McKinsey have put it, ‘Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly 70% fail’. Yet—mysteriously—M&A activity has boomed …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800647817
- Collation
- xviii, 180
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- -
- Call Number
- HG4028.M4 MER G
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