The United States and the Human Rights Revolutions of 1948 and of the 1970s
Every American President has grappled with the place of “rights” in U.S. foreign policy. However, the rise to prominence of […]
Charlesworth and Larking discuss their new book on the UN Universal Periodic Review
Hilary Charlesworth is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Australian National University. She is also an
Gruesome Spectacles. Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty
There is a very fine line between describing the United States of America’s gruesome spectacles of botched executions in enough
History of human rights Note One-Shots
What rights for migrants? What the European Court of Human Rights says and does not say
This is all over the newspapers: MPs have found that the United Kingdom detains ‘far too many [migrants] unnecessarily and for
QUIZ: Do you feel Gaulois?
Recently it was brought to our attention that the French government was in need of the kind of help that
The Making of an African Working Class
An ethnography of class identity and consciousness, its origins and its component dynamics, is a tall order. After all, it
The Edge of Islam
The Edge of Islam is an in-depth and nicely written ethnography about Giriama and Swahili ethnic groups and their identification
Cyber Shadows: Interview with Carolyn Nordstrom & Lisa Carlson
We are immersed in cyber worlds. Such a dominant, human-made feature of contemporaneity plays a fundamental role not simply in
A review of some Middle Eastern Movies
Today’s post comes to you from our unofficial but very active and growing “Allegra Lab Italy”, and is a partial and
Legal Pluralism and Governance: Interview with Livia Holden
We have asked ourselves questions like the following: Where and how do social actors initiate their claims? Do the theorizations