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HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONTEXT
Research on human rights, or social and political issues closely related to human rights, is nowadays carried out in many academic departments, from law to anthropology, from sociology to philosophy. Yet, there is surprisingly little communication amongst scholars working in these different disciplines, and research that takes more than one perspective into account is seldom encouraged. This series bridges the divide between the social sciences and the law in human rights scholarship.
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CONSTITUTIONALISM AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN SOUTH
AFRICA
Andrea Lollini
Translated by Alexandra Tatiana Pollard
With a Foreword by Roberto Toniatti, Università di Trento
Volume 5
“Andrea Lollini’s intellectual contribution... offers important and interesting points of departure on a plurality of issues and disciplines that are rooted in established academic culture but that may also anticipate the outcome of future research.” • [From the Foreword]
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SOCIAL TORTURE
The Case of Northern Uganda,
1986-2006
Chris Dolan
Volume 4
“Dolan provides an important counter narrative and a unique factual record demonstrating that all actors in northern Uganda – not just the LRA – have blood on their hands. Beyond having written an excellent book, Dolan’s real triumph will be if this counter narrative reaches beyond Social Torture’s presumably academic audience. One can only hope that ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will read this book.” • H-Africa
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BEYOND PRISON
The Fight to Reform Prison Systems around the
World
Ahmed Othmani
With a Preface by Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Translated from the French by Marguerite Garling
Volume 3
“This is an exceptional personal testimony and story of achievement – Ahmet Othmani tells of his own appalling treatment when in detention and how it informed and inspired a lifetime vocation to struggle for the rights of all prisoners everywhere...” [From the Preface]
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ADVANCING REFUGEE PROTECTION IN SOUTH
AFRICA
Edited by Jeff Handmaker, Lee Anne de la Hunt and Jonathan Klaaren
Volume 2
“This collection of essays is a significant advance in the field of refugee protection and the law in South Africa, as very little research has been done on this topic. Few authors other than those included in the collection have addressed wider refugee and migration issues in South…a very enlightening resource for both practitioners and academic researchers in South Africa and elsewhere.” • African Affairs
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BETWEEN BOMBS AND GOOD INTENTIONS
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Italo-Ethiopian war,
1935-1936
Rainer Baudendistel
With a Foreword by Angelo Del Boca
Volume 1
"The author is well-equipped to tell this story. A historian by profession, he also has rich experience in humanitarian relief work in the Horn of Africa, including several years of service in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The book is rich in documentation, with the author having tapped almost all the pertinent archival material in Italy and Geneva and having interviewed a number of eyewitnesses." • African Studies Review
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FORCED MIGRATION
This series, published in association with the Refugees Studies Centre, University of Oxford, reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the field and includes within its scope international law, anthropology, medicine, geopolitics, social psychology and economics.
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THE MIGRATION-DISPLACEMENT NEXUS
Patterns, Processes, and
Policies
Edited by Khalid Koser and Susan Martin
Volume 32
“ (This volume) illustrates the problems and challenges which contemporary displacement and migration pose, in particular how they expose legal, normative and institutional weaknesses and the consequences (in terms of human and broader societal impact) of protection and assistance failure.” • Chris McDowell, City University, London
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ZIMBABWE’S NEW DIASPORA
Displacement and the Cultural Politics of
Survival
Edited by JoAnn McGregor and Ranka Primorac
Volume 31
"Anyone who has witnessed the plight and sense of desperation of Zimbabweans who have fled Robert Mugabe’s violent regime of terror, and its consequent economic meltdown, should read this book… It will undoubtedly constitute a baseline for any future research on the Zimbabwean diaspora." • Pnina Werbner, Keele University
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DETERRITORIALIZED YOUTH
Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle
East
Edited by Dawn Chatty
Volume 29
"... a valuable, innovative contribution to the anthropological study of refugee youth, as it focuses on refugee populations on which relatively little research has been done so far... [and offers] a sound methodological approach and rich qualitative data. " • Cordula Strocka, Free University Berlin
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THE EARLY MORNING PHONECALL
Somali Refugees'
Remittances
Anna Lindley
Volume 28
“Lindley’s style as well as her experience with and strong knowledge of the region make for an excellent study that should find a home in classes focused on migration, remittance practices, development, and African Studies.” • Anthropological Quarterly
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MATERIALISING EXILE
Material Culture and Embodied Experience among Karenni Refugees in
Thailand
Sandra Dudley
Volume 27
“Sandra Dudley brings unique and valuable insights into the field of forced migration both through her study of the Karenni refugees in Thailand, an overlooked group of refugees who have fled dire circumstances of counter/insurgency and destruction, and a material culture disciplinary lens. This is an eloquently composed text with high scholarly merits.” • Hazel Lang, Australian National University
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POLITICS OF INNOCENCE
Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp
Life
Simon Turner
Volume 30
" Given the limited number of texts in English on the Burundi conflict and refugee contexts, this work will be of considerable significance. It is the first to engage with the recent post-1994 refugee population on the ground and based on original material that is derived from primary research in a refugee camp." • Patricia Daley, Oxford University
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JUDGMENT AT ISTANBUL
The Armenian Genocide
Trials
Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam
Turkey’s bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. The authors, one an Armenian, the other a Turk, the foremost experts on the Armenian Genocide, prepared a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians.
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HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Resettlement, Memories,
Identities
Edited by Dalia Ofer, Françoise S. Ouzan, and Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
“…an important contribution to the evolving field of research on Jewish life in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Almost every chapter introduces new research on unexamined areas of postwar Jewish history… By framing the study in a broad comparative manner, the book is one of the first of its kind and will make for essential reading in the field.” • Avinoam Patt, University of Hartford
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Anthropology in Action
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and
Practice
Editor: Christine McCourt, City University London
Volume 18, Issue 2
Anthropology in Action is a peer-reviewed journal publishing key articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews that deal with the use of anthropology in all areas of policy and practice. The journal provides a forum for debate and analysis of anthropological themes. Recent themes have included identity and movement, anthropology in Denmark, the effects of ethics, and anthropology and activism.
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Regions and Cohesion
Regiones y Cohesión / Régions et
Cohésion
Editors: Harlan Koff and Carmen Maganda, both of the University of Luxembourg
Volume 1, Issue 2
Due to the dramatic changes in global affairs related to regional integration, studies can no longer be limited to the analysis of economic competitiveness and political power in global geopolitics. Regions and Cohesion is a needed platform for academics and practitioners alike to disseminate both empirical research and normative analysis of topics related to human and environmental security, social cohesion, and governance.
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Nomadic
Peoples
Editor: Saverio Krätli
Volume 15, Issue 1
Nomadic Peoples is an international journal published for the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Its primary concerns are the current circumstances of all nomadic peoples around the world and their prospects. Its readership includes all those interested in nomadic peoples—scholars, researchers, planners and project administrators.
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Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility
Studies
Chief Editor: Gijs Mom, Eindhoven University of Technology
Volume1, Issue 1
Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies is a new peer-reviewed journal publishing cutting-edge research on the processes, structures and consequences of the movement of people, resources, and commodities. Intellectually rigorous, broadly ranging, and conceptually innovative, the journal combines the empiricism of traditional mobility history with more recent methodological approaches from the social sciences and the humanities.
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