Routledge Studies in Human Rights
About the Book Series
The Routledge Human Rights series publishes high quality and cross-disciplinary scholarship on topics of key importance in human rights today. In a world where human rights are both celebrated and contested, this series is committed to create stronger links between disciplines and explore new methodological and theoretical approaches in human rights research. Aimed towards both scholars and human rights professionals, the series strives to provide both critical analysis and policy-oriented research in an accessible form. The series welcomes work on specific human rights issues as well as on cross-cutting themes and institutional perspectives.
A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo
1st Edition
By Jamal Barnes
January 17, 2019
This book examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political realists correct in ...
Understanding Statelessness
1st Edition
Edited
By Tendayi Bloom, Katherine Tonkiss, Phillip Cole
December 13, 2018
Understanding Statelessness offers a comprehensive, in-depth examination of statelessness. The volume presents the theoretical, legal and political concept of statelessness through the work of leading critical thinkers in this area. They offer a critique of the existing framework through detailed ...
Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation: Transnational law enforcement and migration control
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Jens Vedsted-Hansen
December 13, 2016
This edited volume examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of growing transnational law enforcement. With states increasingly making use of global governance modes, core exercises of public authority such as migration control, surveillance, detention and ...