Human Rights Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

   By Marc Stein

   Series: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century

   Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements

   Edited by Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short, Matthew Waites

   Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. The State and Indigenous Movements

   By Keri E. Iyall Smith

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians, showing how a nation can express culture and citizenship while seeking ways to attain greater sovereignty over territory, culture, and politics....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The International Legal Governance of the Human Genome

   By Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy

   Series: Genetics and Society

   The human genome is a well known symbol of scientific and technological progress in the 21st century. However, concerns about the exacerbation of inequalities between the rich and the poor, the developing and the developed states, the healthy and the unhealthy are causing problems for the progress...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
5. Interpreting Human Rights

   Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Rhiannon Morgan, Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture. At the same time, human rights have become a central focus of research in the social sciences, embracing distinctive analytical and empirical...

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Confronting the Human Rights Act 1998

   Contemporary themes and perspectives

   Edited by Nicolas Kang-Riou

   This book critically examines the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and evaluates its impact from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book includes both a domestic and international analysis of the effectiveness of the HRA, and also considers possible future developments in policy and practise as well...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. International Law, International Relations and Global Governance

   By Charlotte Ku

   Series: Global Institutions

   International Relations and International Law have developed in parallel but distinctly throughout the 20th Century. However in recent years there has been recognition that their shared concerns in areas as diverse as the environment, transnational crime and terrorism, human rights and conflict...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights

   International Standards and Comparative Experiences

   By Paul O'Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "Cinderella" of the human rights corpus. At a domestic level this has resulted in little appetite for the explicit recognition and...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment

    By Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Danielle Dirks

    Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

    Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these connections gave rise to a small but well-focused reform movement. Biased and perfunctory procedures were replaced by prolonged trials and appeals, which some found messy and...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge