Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically
continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows …

The language of human rights is the most prominent'people-centred'language of global
justice today. This textbook looks at how human rights are constructed at local, national …

Over the last 20 years the world's most advanced militaries have invited a small number of
military legal professionals into the heart of their targeting operations, spaces which had …

Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights contributes to the development of that field of
study called 'psycho-social'that is presently more and more committed to providing …

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing
across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like …

This article initiates a Sociology of Security. Such a field should analyze how conditions
transpire for security—however defined—to surface as a value in individual and collective …

Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of
thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science …

2 Wool and Livingston· Introduction struggle toward meaning but not a story of redemption,
or a testimonial to the strength of family and community in the face of grievous harm. This …

Elaine Scarry argues in The Body in Pain that war is a vast and reciprocal swearing on the
body, with corporeality key not only to its brutal prosecution but also to the eventual ending …

International human rights law is sometimes criticized as an infringement of constitutional
democracy. Against this view, Jamie Mayerfeld argues that international human rights law …