Political oppression & persecution books

1213 books were found.

Genocide Perspectives VI: The Process and the Personal Cost of Genocide

Genocide Perspectives VI: The Process and the Personal...

Author: Nikki Marczak ,  Kirril Shields
ISBN: 9780977520039
Format: Paperback
$56.93

This book examines genocide from a variety of perspectives, including the personal costs of the crime and those...  Read More >>

Like Water is for Fish: The Power of Story in our Lives

Like Water is for Fish: The Power of Story in our Lives...

Author: Garth Japhet
ISBN: 9781770106444
Format: Paperback
$36.20

The Soul City and Soul Buddyz series are memorable for the way in which they integrated health topics into compelling...  Read More >>

Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities

Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking...

Author: Mahmood Mamdani
ISBN: 9780674987326
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of...  Read More >>

1986

1986

Author: William Dicey
ISBN: 9781415210529
Format: Paperback
$47.52

1986 presents a cross-section of apartheid, captured in a series of vignettes.  Read More >>

Who is Racist? Why Racism Matters

Who is Racist? Why Racism Matters

Author: Alexis Tan
ISBN: 9781793512246
Format: Paperback
$34.10

Weaves social science research with media stories that demonstrate everyday instances of both racism and hope. Alexis...  Read More >>

Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy

Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the...

Author: Sarah Sobieraj (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Tufts University)
ISBN: 9780190089290
Format: Paperback
$33.95

Greta Thunberg. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Anita Sarkeesian. Emma Gonzalez. When women are vocal about political...  Read More >>

Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Elected Black Politician

Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Elected...

Author: Martin Plaut
ISBN: 9781431430550
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Dr Abdullah Abdurahman (1872–1940) was the first person of colour ever to be elected to political office in South...  Read More >>

The Impact of Human Rights Prosecutions: Insights from European, Latin American, and African Post-Conflict Societies

The Impact of Human Rights Prosecutions: Insights from...

Author: Ulrike Capdepon ,  Rosario Figari Layus
ISBN: 9789462702493
Format: Paperback
$126.79

New perspectives on human rights prosecutions in various regional contexts  Read More >>

Endgames: Military Response to Protest in Arab Autocracies

Endgames: Military Response to Protest in Arab Autocracies...

Author: Hicham Bou Nassif (Claremont McKenna College, California)
ISBN: 9781108841245
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Building on interviews with Arab officers, extensive fieldwork and archival research, as well as hundreds of memoirs...  Read More >>

We Haven't Seen Each Other for So Long: Art of the Lost Generation. The Böhme Collection

We Haven't Seen Each Other for So Long: Art of the Lost...

Author: Heinz R. Böhme
ISBN: 9783777433899
Format: Hardback
$80.00

"Heinz R. Böhme has been collecting artworks of the Lost Generation for more than twenty years. The main focus of...  Read More >>

The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje: A Pan-African Social Scientist Ahead of His Time

The Social and Political Thought of Archie Mafeje: A...

Author: Bongani Nyoka
ISBN: 9781776145942
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Social scientist Archie Mafeje, who was born in the Eastern Cape but lived most of his scholarly life in exile,...  Read More >>

A Luta Continua: A History of Media Freedom in South Africa

A Luta Continua: A History of Media Freedom in South...

Author: Lizette Rabe
ISBN: 9781928480808
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This book tells the tale of the various states of press freedom, or unfreedom, from colonial times to today.  Read More >>

Stalin’s Soviet Monastery: A New Interpretation of Russian Politics

Stalin’s Soviet Monastery: A New Interpretation of Russian...

Author: Jim Curtis
ISBN: 9781433171024
Format: Hardback
$313.50

In Stalin’s Soviet Monastery Russian scholar Jim Curtis integrates innovative work in linguistics, anthropology...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of the Kimberley Process

The Political Economy of the Kimberley Process

Author: Nathan Munier
ISBN: 9781108839709
Format: Hardback
$206.97

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Making Our Way To Lumpkin - Visits with Our Immigrant Neighbors in Detention

Making Our Way To Lumpkin - Visits with Our Immigrant...

Author: Members Of Find
ISBN: 9780578765167
Format: Paperback
$26.27

In 2019, a dedicated group of North Carolinians journeyed to a detention center in rural Georgia to visit detained...  Read More >>

All Rise

All Rise

Author: Dikgang Moseneke
ISBN: 9781770105355
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Law as a profession was not Dikgang Moseneke's first choice. As a small boy he told his aunt that he wanted to be...  Read More >>

Ubuntu Beyond Identities: Isintu as a Performative Turn of Ubuntu

Ubuntu Beyond Identities: Isintu as a Performative Turn...

Author: Prof. Paul Tembe
ISBN: 9781928341888
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Let us rewrite our history; A history that speaks of Africa as experienced by Africans. Let us rewrite our history...  Read More >>

The Global Police State

The Global Police State

Author: William I Robinson
ISBN: 9780745341644
Format: Paperback
$49.14

A critical look at the terrifying ways the police are used to control 'surplus' populations worldwide.  Read More >>

The Global Police State

The Global Police State

Author: William I Robinson
ISBN: 9780745341637
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Turkey's New State in the Making: Transformations in Legality, Economy and Coercion

Turkey's New State in the Making: Transformations in...

Author: Prof. Pinar Bedirhanoglu (Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey) ,  Çaglar Dölek (Carleton University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781786998705
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This work problematizes the AKP-led radical re-making of the Turkish state by taking into consideration the constitutive...  Read More >>

Torture and Peacebuilding in Indonesia: The Case of Papua

Torture and Peacebuilding in Indonesia: The Case of...

Author: Budi Hernawan (University of Indonesia)
ISBN: 9780367594145
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book analyses state-sponsored torture and peacebuilding in Indonesia. It focuses on the case study of Papua,...  Read More >>

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

Author: Saeed Jones
ISBN: 9781501132742
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Written from the crossroads of sex, race, and power in America, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age...  Read More >>

The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives

The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives...

Author: Harini Amarasuriya ,  Tobias Kelly
ISBN: 9781787357785
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The Intimate Life of Dissent examines the meanings and implications of public acts of dissent, which, the authors...  Read More >>

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