Bücher der Reihe Studies in Social and Global Justice

Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities? Do different conceptions of culture and identity, and their potential to frame human rights violations as culturally appropriate, complicate the question? How should a human right to collective identity be outlined?Claims to human rights as applying to a whole (ethnic, religious or cultural) group, instead of the individual, prove to be complex. This book reveals the pitfalls, benefits and demands that surround the debate for and against culture and identity in human rights. It connects a continuous and nuanced theoretical debate with highly topical empirical findings about collective rights for indigenous groups, which for centuries have been suppressed and marginalized and now stand at the forefront of (successfully) demanding a human right to their own culture and distinct identity. This book shows the ambivalences of those demands and discusses solutions so that human rights neither exclude marginalized cultural groups nor reproduce rigid distinctions between seemingly exclusive cultures.

First collection to apply a pluralistic and multi-disciplinary approach to understanding exploitation and its potential remedies.

Exploring a range of transnational labour movements, the book provides a theory for understanding how collective action succeeds and fails.

Offers a novel reading from ancient Greeks to the Reformation by exploring the idea of a 'politics of recognition'.

First collection to apply a pluralistic and multi-disciplinary approach to understanding exploitation and its potential remedies.

Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism offers an understanding of how and why Australian labour law has changed, along with the impact on key social justice issues. More broadly, it uses theoretical models to assess labour law regimes within capitalist societies.

This collection contributes to developing this concept both theoretically and through concrete and current case studies from the worlds most pronounced crisis spots for transitional justice.

The realisation of justice in the real world requires moral principles and political action. This book offers a roadmap for these two notions to connect.

Focusing on the triangular relationship of precariousness, trade unions and social movements, this book draws on a range of exciting cases, both comparative and country case studies, in order to understand how the shadow of the crisis still haunts organized labour in Europe.

Offers a critical framework built on the epistemology of Frankfurt School scholars identifying the normative assumptions omnipresent in current causal and explanatory empirical studies

This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice. While in many cases the ΓÇÿblindΓÇÖ criminal justice does not enhance, and even militates against, the achievement of political transitions, an understanding of transitional justice as a fundamentally political process is novel, controversial and a concept which may shape the future of transitional justice. This collection contributes to developing this concept both theoretically and through concrete and current case studies from the worlds most pronounced crisis spots for transitional justice.

This book provides an exploration of European disaster and development thinking inspired by a key work of European literature.

This second volume continues the story told in the first by focusing on the writings of a selection of seminal thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in England, the German speaking world and in France, ending with the debate around the French Revolution of 1789.

This interdisciplinary study argues that local control represents a universal social value that ought to be codified in international law as a human right.

An in-depth account of community organising in post-industrial areas, told in organisers' own voices.

Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration processes have also provided workers with new possibilities to organize resistance.Emphasizing the importance of agency, this book analyzes transnational labour action in times of crisis, historically and now. It draws on a variety of fascinating cases, across formal and informal collectives, in order to clarify which factors facilitate or block the formation of solidarity. Moving beyond empirical description of cases to an informed understanding of collective action across borders, the volume provides an insightful theorization of transnational action.