This book provides an in-depth case study of White Armband Day, a civic and transnational protest against the denial of genocidal violence in Prijedor during the early days of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995). It explores how this commemorative event emerged amid local memory struggles as a spontaneous global social media campaign for the victims' right to remember and traces its evolution into a transnational commemoration day, marked in Prijedor, across the post-Yugoslav region, within diasporic communities, and online.

Based on multi-sited fieldwork conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina and several places of settlement, the book focuses on the transnational and diasporic dimensions of this commemorative protest and pays particular attention to the role of translocal networks in establishing this commemoration within conflict-generated Bosnian-Herzegovinian diasporic communities.

The book will appeal to an international audience of academics and advanced students engaging in current discussions in memory studies, transitional justice, and diaspora studies. It will be of interest to scholars of contemporary Southeastern Europe and other societies grappling with the legacies of a violent past and to practitioners seeking to support civil society in advancing post-war justice and challenging the silencing of historic injustice.

In an era dominated by technocratic debates about efficiency, effectiveness and the economy, the fundamental purposes of public policy are too often left unquestioned. This narrow focus risks obscuring the democratic and redistributive aims that give state action its legitimacy.

Drawing on political philosophy and foundational public policy scholarship, this book offers a critical framework for analysing state action beyond the logic of the '3Es'. Through a sustained examination of social and economic policies in Mexico since the 1980s, it traces how neoliberal reforms, extractive institutions and limited forms of participation have shaped exclusionary outcomes. Its analytical toolkit applies to Global South contexts with colonial legacies, weak states and powerful oligarchies.

Written in clear, accessible language, this invaluable book reframes policy evaluation around the questions of what public policies are for and who they are meant to serve, and identifies alternative pathways towards truly inclusive and participatory democracy.

In this hard-hitting book, the Lower Ninth Ward - ground zero for Hurricane Katrina - becomes a microcosm of what happens when white actors venture into black spaces for humanitarian aid.

Through vivid vignettes, Harvey exposes how blacks are often hindered in their efforts to rebuild their neighborhoods by seemingly progressive ideas and color-blind urban narratives.

Addressing the failure of disaster and environmental studies to see black communities as agents, the book demonstrates what critical disaster studies can offer for understandings of race, the environment and diversity.

This is a key contribution to debates on race, including the limitations of 'white allies' in places like Ferguson, Missouri and in the Black Lives Matter Movement.

World Politics: A Critical Introduction to International Relations offers an engaging and accessible exploration of critical theories in international relations. Drawing on a rich array of narratives and perspectives, it provides a systematic introduction to feminist, queer, decolonial, and other critical approaches.

The book examines how politics in the 20th and 21st centuries have been instrumental in creating, shaping, and perpetuating global hierarchies of power and status. It critically analyses how the Eurocentrism embedded in the international system is the result of deliberate, often violent, political actions aimed at establishing world order. These actions continue to influence daily lives and shape societies in profound ways.

Complete with practical examples, case studies, and vignettes, this textbook is an essential resource if you are looking to decolonise, feminise, and integrate a broader range of critical perspectives into your study of International Relations.

nstructors have access to a range of online materials that have been carefully curated to support their teaching, including a Teaching Guide, PowerPoints and a testbank.

Catherine Goetze is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

In a time of climate breakdown, everyday security is shaped as much by ecological degradation as by familiar forms of disorder. Drawing on two research encounters with a northern English town, set 25 years apart, this book reveals how local concerns about chronic environmental damage blur the boundaries between criminal and noncriminal harms. It proposes an ecological rethinking of security-one that recognises how worries about sustainability, place and quality of life increasingly intertwine.

Bringing environmental and green criminology into closer dialogue, the book shows how austerity and climate anxieties converge, and how communities' hopes for habitable futures demand new ways of understanding-and acting upon-everyday disorder.

Faced with technological disruptions, ecological challenges, and social transformations, organizations must rethink how they design and implement strategy for sustainability and decarbonisation.

This book invites readers to rediscover strategy as a dynamic, creative practice rooted in transitions and innovation. Moving beyond conventional frameworks, it blends conceptual foundations with practical illustrations, offering a fresh perspective on navigating uncertainty and driving sustainable organizational renewal. Chapters demonstrate how creativity, values, and imagination can become critical levers for strategic action, enabling organizations to reinvent themselves in contexts of transition. Pedagogy includes chapter objectives, boxed examples, international case studies, questions with guided answers, and a glossary of key terms, to support both teaching and learning. This book equips future leaders to embrace uncertainty, innovate responsibly, and design strategies that are sustainable, decarbonised, and impactful.

Essential for students of strategic management, innovation, sustainability, and organizational change.

The book is supported by supplementary online resources in the form of PowerPoint slides.

Psychology, Law and Society in India: The Unconscious Republic uses psychoanalysis to look below the surface of the apparently rational legal system, consider the subterranean factors at play and devise interventions to bring law closer to justice.

With specific reference to India, Rakesh Shukla takes a look at the relationship between love and rage in intimate relationships, the impact of the father-son dynamic in politics and inter-community relations. Shukla considers the dynamics behind parental love and 'honor killings', Hindu sexuality and fanaticism, and how the 'other' comes to be viewed as 'evil'.

Grounded in law, clinical practice, and interventions in judicial training, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to learn more about the interface of society, the psyche and law.

How evolution and culture have historically shaped our understanding of human behavior.

Evolutionary explanations of human behavior have been perennial sources of contention ever since they originated over 150 years ago. In Darwin's Descendants, Allan V. Horwitz traces the debates that began with Darwin's earliest critics and shows how similar tensions animate conversations in classrooms, laboratories, and public culture today.

Rather than treating biological and sociocultural explanations as rival camps, Horwitz examines how each perspective highlights different aspects of the traits, instincts, and norms that shape human life. Through vivid cases that reveal the interplay of inherited predispositions and cultural forces, he shows how instincts such as incest avoidance and emotional expression are behaviors with deep evolutionary roots. Other patterns, including the cultural celebration of courage or the dramatic decline in fertility across modern societies, reveal moments when social values outpace biological tendencies. Still others, such as widespread obesity or contemporary expectations around physical attractiveness, emerge from intricate mismatches between ancient adaptations and twenty-first-century environments. Across these examples, Horwitz shows how conflicts over human evolution have continually reflected concerns about morality, politics, gender, and identity.

Darwin's Descendants explains why evolutionary frameworks attract both enthusiastic supporters and sharp detractors, and why questions about nature and culture remain so charged more than a century and a half after the publication of On the Origin of Species. Horwitz presents a compelling account of how biological and cultural explanations converge and diverge as we seek to understand ourselves.

Women and Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) sheds new light on aspects of women's support for the far right.

Alternative fuer Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD) is the second largest party in Germany following the federal election in February 2025, and, like with its counterparts across Europe and elsewhere, women have been instrumental in securing the AfD's ongoing electoral successes at both a state and federal level. Based on a period of overseas fieldwork during which the author interviewed female AfD members, this book explores how the development of their political subjectivity often intersects with key moments in Germany's history and subsequent socio-political and economic transformations. The author casts a critical feminist eye over the ways in which women negotiate their own understandings of their AfD support which make it consonant with their own lives and experiences.

This book will be of interest to researchers of the far right, German politics, and gender studies.

Policy Process Frameworks in Practice offers a fresh and critical look at the main frameworks used to study policy processes, with a unique focus on their application in Brazil and Latin America.

Rather than simply presenting theories, it examines how these models are used in practice, highlighting both their strengths and their limits. By shifting attention to the Global South, the book challenges the idea that frameworks developed in the Northern Hemisphere are only applied elsewhere, showing instead how they are reshaped and enriched in new contexts. Each chapter follows a clear and accessible structure: a concise overview of the framework, a systematic review of its reception in Brazilian and Latin American scholarship, and a critical discussion of whether and how causal explanations are employed. This approach provides readers with both conceptual clarity and empirical depth, while also pointing to gaps and opportunities for future research.

Bringing a critical Global South perspective, this book challenges established policy frameworks, broadens international debates, and provides scholars with refined tools to understand how policies take shape and change.

In the face of Russian military aggression in the Donbas and after the annexation of Crimea (2014) and in view of the full-scale war in Ukraine that commenced in 2022, the Russian appropriation of Ukraine's cultural heritage has become particularly important, as it should be remembered that Russia's attack not only has a military dimension but is also aimed at Ukrainian national and historical heritage. The appropriation of Ukraine's cultural heritage in the context of the legitimization of Russia's imperial aspirations has become a research interest for an international and interdisciplinary group of researchers, resulting in the co-authored monograph. The monograph was preceded by a series of research seminars conducted at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) with the participation of researchers at the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyjiv, Ukraine). The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is unencumbered by Soviet heritage and continues the traditions of the famous Kyiv Academy (17th century), remaining a respected and prestigious scientific centre. This monograph was produced in collaboration with international experts representing various fields and contains analysis of specific examples of the appropriation of Ukraine's cultural heritage, its use by Russia for propaganda purposes, and Ukraine's attempts to reclaim the narrative about this heritage.

Hegemony and Woke Strategy explores how wokeism functions as a distinct ideological force within the contemporary culture war, challenging liberal and socialist traditions through strategic uses of identity politics.

Grounded in Gramscian theory and informed by poststructuralist and Marxist scholarship, Lars Erik L. Gjerde analyzes how cultural struggle operates as a bid for hegemony. He moves beyond defining wokeism to examine its tactics, such as cancellations, language politics, and woke capitalism, and how they shape political discourse and social norms. With an international scope and a focus on the Western context, Gjerde combines theoretical analysis with real-world examples from pop culture, campus politics, and policy debates to show how wokeism rearticulates and subverts earlier ideological frameworks.

This book is intended for scholars and advanced students in political theory, cultural studies and sociology. It will also appeal to researchers interested in ideology, identity politics, and the intersection of culture and power in shaping contemporary political dynamics.

The Global South and the Future of World Order presents an analysis of some of the fundamental, new processes in international politics today from a multi-regional perspective originating from the "Global South."

What feasible institutional, normative/cultural, technological, and economic solutions coming from intellectuals from the Global South can be proposed to make the international order more inclusive and better governed and thus more stable, more prosperous, and peaceful? By answering this question, the book innovatively contributes to the explanation of potential directions, depth, consistency, and durability of current shifts in international relations originating in the Global South. Contributions from internationally renowned scholars from different parts of the Global South present politically and culturally diverse perspectives. They explore the political, economic, institutional, and social consequences of the growing influence of the Global South and examine the contested political subjectivities
of the Global South itself. The various policy alternatives to advance institutional, social, financial, technological, security, and cultural interests of the Global South are also discussed.

The Global South and the Future of World Order will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science and international relations. It will also appeal to policymakers and analysts seeking to achieve a better understanding of contemporary global trends.

This book examines the phenomenon of kidnap-for-ransom, a crime that has been described as a 'modern scourge.' It draws on a large body of data from across the world and utilizes a range of theories and concepts from the social sciences and business disciplines to analyse and explain its widespread use by criminals and pirates. Case studies are extensively utilized to illustrate general observations on kidnap-for-ransom. The book provides comprehensive coverage, including the latest manifestations of the phenomenon. There are chapters on different types of kidnap-for-ransom that include criminals, terrorists, pirates and cyber operators. The dreadful effects of the crime and the responses to combat it are also covered. The reader will emerge with a broad understanding of this crime and of the many forms it takes. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Financial Crime, Security studies, Criminology and Economics.

Psychoanalysis and Fascism: A Reader brings together the most significant papers from a century-long history of psychoanalytic writings on fascism.

Alasdair Cannon and Tom Fielder situate key work by authors including Wilhelm Reich, Christopher Bollas, Jacqueline Rose, Otto Kernberg, and Theodor Adorno in the context of fascism's return as a locus of renewed political anxiety and scholarly debate. Organised into five sections - The Fascist State of Mind, Mass Psychology, Masculinity and Perversion, Psychosocial Approaches, and an Afterword - and featuring an extensive Introduction and Conclusion by the Editors, the book includes a diverse and comprehensive view of the major contributions to the field, from its inception to the present day.

Psychoanalysis and Fascism: A Reader will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of psychoanalytic studies, critical theory, cultural studies, political studies and political psychology, and for psychoanalytic and group analytic practitioners seeking a psychosocial perspective on the proliferation of rage and terror in today's world of systemic breakdown.

Women, Peace and Security in Canada and the United States critically examines the challenges and contradictions of implementing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda within the highly polarised political landscapes of Canada and the United States. In an era marked by democratic strain and shifting security priorities, A Fragmented Peace brings together leading scholars, policymakers, and civil society actors to explore how WPS is being implemented, challenged, and reimagined across diverse contexts-from defence institutions and legislative frameworks to grassroots activism and transnational partnerships.

The book interrogates the limits of state-centric and multilateral approaches while foregrounding the central role of civil society in sustaining and advancing the agenda. Spanning themes such as militarisation, digital threats, settler colonial legacies, youth leadership, masculinities, LGBTQI+ inclusion, and climate security, the book provides a nuanced and intersectional analysis of WPS in North America. Grounded in both empirical case studies and critical reflection, it not only diagnoses the fractures shaping contemporary WPS efforts but also identifies pathways for more inclusive, accountable, and contextually rooted feminist peacebuilding.

Women, Peace and Security in Canada and the United States will appeal to those working on foreign policy, defence, peacebuilding, and civil society advocacy, particularly where the WPS agenda is being implemented or contested.

An essential guide to understanding how citizen lawmaking reshapes state immigration policy

Since 2010, state legislatures have enacted 1,644 statutes and resolutions regarding immigration, averaging about 329 laws each year. Nevertheless, the most controversial bills, the ones we remember and talk about, usually have some involvement with the direct democracy process: initiatives, propositions, and referendums designed by everyday citizens with little to no inside knowledge of politics. From driver's licenses and in-state tuition, to English-only education and access to social services, citizens are fundamentally shaping state immigration policy.

In Direct Democracy Rules, Andrea Silva reveals how the frontlines of U.S. immigration policy have shifted from Congress to the states. While federal authority over immigration is well established, decades of legislative stalemate have created a vacuum that states, and citizens themselves, have rushed to fill. At the heart of Silva's analysis is the powerful role of direct democracy mechanisms in allowing activists, advocacy groups, and political strategists to bypass legislatures entirely, advancing sweeping policies without compromise. In this system, a single vote at the state level can reshape the lives of millions and influence the national conversation on immigration.

Accessible, timely, and rigorously researched, Direct Democracy Rules ultimately frames these citizen-led battles over state policy as the new terrain of twenty-first century immigration politics.

This book explores the evolution and internalisation of regional international law in the Eurasian Russian context, covering historical, contemporary, and future perspectives. Providing a forward-looking analysis, the book makes predictions as to how emerging geopolitical and geoeconomic trends will influence the development of regional international law and the balance of power within the Eurasian region.

Analysing perceptions of universalism and regionalism across various historical periods in Eurasia, the book focuses on what now encompasses the post-Soviet states, with wider lessons for the international legal community. The book discusses Russia's use of international law to sustain its geopolitical objectives and the subsequent responses from neighbouring states. Evaluating Soviet international law and its relationship with regionalism and universality, the book also explores post-Soviet Russia's efforts to redefine international law by creating its own vision of regional (Eurasian) international law through regional organizations such as the CIS, CSTO, and EAEU in the post-Soviet Eurasian space. Within the current context of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, it explores how the post-Soviet Eurasian states have navigated their legal and political landscapes amidst competing pressures from both regional and global actors.

The book will be of interest to researchers in the field of international law, alongside Eurasian Russian politics.