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This book explores how the unique historical development of Islamic Shari’a criminal law alongside... Læs mere
Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life.
Using data collected in fieldwork and surveys, Tang examines China’s clan (zongzu) system and local clan communities in rural Anhui.
Through an in-depth legal analysis by leading scholars, this book searches for the exact legal causes of land-related disputes in Asia within the histories, legal systems and social realities of the respective countries.
Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy.
This book offers a historical assessment of Jakarta’s water management practices from the colonial era through the to Jakarta’s emergence as a sprawling... Læs mere
In this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy, building on a wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres.
In a major challenge to African philosophy, this book demonstrates the importance of the universalisation question... Læs mere
Mocking Eugenics explores the opposition to eugenic discourse mounted by twentieth-century American artists seeking to challenge and destabilise what they viewed as a dangerous body of thought.
This book familiarises readers with a new way to treat the subject of gender, foregrounding the real voices of women, their experiences doing ethnographic work, and their courage in sharing their stories publicly for the first time in the context of India.
Does China’s development-based approach to human rights offer a partial if non-ideal solution to human rights in North Korea? This book addresses this question by bringing together expertise on human rights in both North Korea and China.
This book theorizes illiberal constitutionalism by interrogation of the Rule of Law, democratic deterioration, and the misuse of the language and relativization of human rights protection, and its widespread emotional and value-oriented effect on the population.