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Human Rights From Community: A Rights-Based Approach To Development
Oche Onazi - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
Oche Onazi uses Nigeria as a case study to show how the idea of community is a better alternative to state and market-based approaches to human rights, which lead to poverty, exclusion and a lack of participation.
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Undoing Border Imperialism
Harsha Walia - Paperback - AK Press
By reframing immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labour exploitation, settler colonialism, state building and racialised empire, 'Undoing Border Imperialism' offers relevant insights for effective strategies to cultivate sustainable communities striving toward liberation.
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Road To Referendum
Iain Macwhirter - Hardback - Cargo
Iain Macwhirter looks at the origins, ambitions and changes of the nationalist movement; at how the SNP moved from just 150 members to one of Europe's most important parties; how politicians of the UK political scene have shifted and influenced the most major popular movement in British politics.
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Gender And Political Recruitment: Theorizing Institutional Change
Meryl Kenny - Hardback - Palgrave Macmillan
This work explores the gendered dynamics of institutional innovation, continuity and change in candidate selection and recruitment. Drawing on the insights of feminist institutionalism, it extends the supply and demand model of political recruitment via a micro-level case study of the candidate selection process in post-devolution Scotland.
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Agamben And The Politics Of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence
John Lechte - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? This book reveals the paradoxes central to the politics of human rights by exploring questions of statelessness, exclusion, the violence of security and the visual representation of refugees and illegal migrants in the media.
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Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law And Politics
- Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
This text explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences. Key thinkers expand upon the foundational principle of republicanism - 'freedom as non-domination' - to articulate theoretical insights into connections between liberty, law and democratic politics.
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The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It)
Andy Wightman - Paperback - Birlinn
From Robert the Bruce to Willie Ross and James V to Donald Dewar, land has conferred political and economic power. Andy Wightman updates the statistics of land ownership in Scotland and explains why landowners got their hands on the millions of acres of land that were once held in common.
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Fascist Scotland
Gavin Bowd - Paperback - Birlinn
Although Fascism in Britain is normally associated with England, it did find support in Scottish society. Scotland has provided its own cohort of idealists, fanatics and traitors for extreme racist, nationalist and authoritarian politics. This book relates a little-known part of our history which reveals some uncomfortable truths which are bound to stimulate debate even now.
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My Son, My Son
Douglas Galbraith - Paperback - Vintage Books
What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when, in 2003, he returned home to Scotland from a few days' work in London. The house was silent, empty and locked; his four and six-year-old sons' pyjamas lay on the bedroom floor.
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Queering Anarchism: Addressing And Undressing Power And Desire
- Paperback - AK Press
What does it mean to 'queer' the world around us? This book brings together a diverse set of writings, ranging from the deeply theoretical to the playfully personal, that explore the possibilities of 'queering', turning the dominant, heteronormative structures of belief and identity entirely inside out.
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