Political oppression & persecution books

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Unsettling Apologies: Critical Writings on Apology from South Africa

Unsettling Apologies: Critical Writings on Apology from...

Author: Melanie Judge (University of Cape Town) ,  Dee Smythe (University of Cape Town)
ISBN: 9781529227956
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Drawing on the histories of injustice, dispossession and violence in South Africa, this book examines the cultural,...  Read More >>

Irish Political Prisoners 1960-2000: Braiding Rage and Sorrow

Irish Political Prisoners 1960-2000: Braiding Rage and...

Author: Seán McConville
ISBN: 9780367697143
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This is a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of...  Read More >>

Power, Poverty and Positionality in Contemporary China: Space of Mind in Authoritarian Systems

Power, Poverty and Positionality in Contemporary China:...

Author: Alessandra Cappelletti (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
ISBN: 9781350250574
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Power, Poverty and Positionality in Contemporary China explores the multiple declinations of poverty and power by...  Read More >>

Cleaner's Boy: A Resistance Road to a Liberated Life

Cleaner's Boy: A Resistance Road to a Liberated Life...

Author: Patric Tariq Mellet
ISBN: 9780624093657
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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Ruin Star

Ruin Star

Author: Matt Wright ,  James L Cook
ISBN: 9781955948555
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Six-hundred years ago, their planet was nearly destroyed in the Ruin. Now, the remaining, desperate survivors risk...  Read More >>

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: Two lives, one nation and a century of art under tyranny in China

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: Two lives, one nation...

Author: Ai Weiwei
ISBN: 9781784701499
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through...  Read More >>

India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance

India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and...

Author: Arvind Narrain
ISBN: 9789395073042
Format: Hardback
$72.59

About the Book A SHARP AND NECESSARY ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS INDIA FACES TODAY In...  Read More >>

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women...

Author: Heather Smith-Cannoy ,  Patricia C. Rodda
ISBN: 9781647122614
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Case studies explore how women’s rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering...  Read More >>

Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker

Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker

Author: Kumi Naidoo
ISBN: 9781431432882
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Growing up in apartheid-era Chatsworth, Kumi Naidoo tells how his mother’s suicide when he was just 15 years old...  Read More >>

Stone Dreams: A Novel-Requiem

Stone Dreams: A Novel-Requiem

Author: Akram Aylisli ,  Katherine E. Young
ISBN: 9781644699133
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professional intrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies....  Read More >>

Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities

Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities,...

Author: Professor Günes Murat Tezcür (University of Central Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9780755639922
Format: Paperback
$61.99

The diversity of Kurdish communities across the Middle East is now recognized as central to understanding both the...  Read More >>

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women...

Author: Heather Smith-Cannoy ,  Patricia C. Rodda
ISBN: 9781647122607
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Case studies explore how women’s rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering...  Read More >>

Police: A Field Guide

Police: A Field Guide

Author: Tyler Wall ,  David Correia
ISBN: 9781839765872
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Expanded, updated edition of a radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing  Read More >>

The Skin We're In

The Skin We're In

Author: Desmond Cole
ISBN: 9780385686365
Format: Paperback
$35.00

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates, a bracing, provocative and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's...  Read More >>

Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed

Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed...

Author: Lee A. McBride III (Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of Wooster, USA)
ISBN: 9781350202627
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Ethics and Insurrection articulates an ethical position that takes critical pragmatism and Harrisian insurrectionist...  Read More >>

We, the Oppressors

We, the Oppressors

Author: Dr Dr Jack Davy
ISBN: 9781529413939
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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We, the Oppressors

We, the Oppressors

Author: Dr Dr Jack Davy
ISBN: 9781529413922
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A prescient book that looks at how we have, over the centuries, inflicted oppression on others for our own advantage...  Read More >>

Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew'

Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and...

Author: Antony Lerman (Bruno Kreisky Forum)
ISBN: 9780745338774
Format: Paperback
$46.55

A clear-sighted exploration of how antisemitism has been politicised, and the damaging consequences of its redefinition...  Read More >>

Censorship of Literature in Austria, 1751-1848

Censorship of Literature in Austria, 1751-1848

Author: Norbert Bachleitner
ISBN: 9789004519275
Format: Hardback
$409.20

The influence of censorship on the intellectual and political life in the Habsburg Monarchy during the period under...  Read More >>

North American Genocides: Indigenous Nations, Settler Colonialism, and International Law

North American Genocides: Indigenous Nations, Settler...

Author: Laurelyn Whitt (Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada) ,  Alan W. Clarke (Utah Valley University)
ISBN: 9781108442428
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The eliminatory dynamics of settler colonialism in North America included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples....  Read More >>

Beyond Fear: Reflections of a Freedom Fighter

Beyond Fear: Reflections of a Freedom Fighter

Author: Ebrahim Ebrahim
ISBN: 9781431432325
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Beyond Fear is the testimony of Ebrahim Ebrahim, a revolutionary...  Read More >>

No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs

No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the...

Author: Nury Turkel
ISBN: 9780008498610
Format: Paperback
$34.99

’Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it’ Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Shortlisted...  Read More >>

No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs

No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the...

Author: Nury Turkel
ISBN: 9780008498603
Format: Hardback
$45.00

’Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it’ Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Winner...  Read More >>

How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back

How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment,...

Author: Nina Jankowicz
ISBN: 9781350267572
Format: Paperback
$24.99

"""Blisteringly witty."" Kirkus ""An essential guide."" Publisher's Weekly ""Timely."" Booklist When Nina Jankowicz's...  Read More >>

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