Political Sociology Books

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31. Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court

    Committing to the Court

    By Yvonne Dutton

    Series: Global Institutions

    In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement mechanism influences state membership and the court’s ability to realize treaty goals, examining questions such as: Why did states decide to create the ICC and design the institution with this uniquely strong...

    Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
32. Representation and Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies

    Congress, Judiciary and Civil Society

    Edited by Moira B. MacKinnon, Ludovico Feoli

    Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

    Legislatures, the judiciary and civil society are important actors in representative democracies. In what ways and how well do they represent? And how effectively do they carry out their institutional and social roles? Both questions refer to the key dimensions of democracy analyzed in this book:...

    Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
33. Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Towards Institution Building

    Edited by Hitoshi Nasu, Ben Saul

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
34. Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia

    By Bina D’Costa

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups. With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates how the state...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
35. South Korean Social Movements

    From Democracy to Civil Society

    Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Paul Chang

    Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

    This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period. The contributors explore the transformation of Korean social movements from the democracy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s to the rise of...

    Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
36. Peace through Tourism

    Promoting Human Security Through International Citizenship

    Edited by Lynda-ann Blanchard, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

    Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

    Peace through tourism refers to a body of analysis which suggests tourism may contribute to cross-cultural understanding, tolerance and even peace between communities and nations. What has been largely missing to date is a sustained critique of the potential and capacities of tourism to foster...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
37. Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia

    Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations

    Edited by Adam Clulow

    Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
38. New Racial Missions of Policing

    International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics

    Edited by Paul Amar

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices. It pushes analytical and theoretical boundaries by examining...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
39. Barcoding Nature

    Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss

    By Claire Waterton, Rebecca Ellis, Brian Wynne

    Series: Genetics and Society

    DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a small standard fragment of any organism’s genome (a so-called ‘micro-genome’) can faithfully identify and help to classify every species on the planet. The...

    Published April 22nd 2013 by Routledge
40. Cooperatives and Community Development

    Edited by Vanna Gonzales, Rhonda Phillips

    Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

    In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad...

    Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge