Social Justice Innovation in Africa

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book discusses the potential of social innovation in the pursuit of social justice in Africa. In the twenty-first century, social innovation and entrepreneurship have attracted renewed attention as a way of promoting social justice and addressing challenges of poverty and inequality. Drawing on perspectives from human rights, economics, business, dev…

Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance

This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. It is now commonplace for gender to be framed as a political issue in global climate politics within academic scholarship, but there is typically a lack of robust empirica…

Fragility, Aid, and State-building: Understanding Diverse Trajectories

Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more res…

Biological and Social Issues in Biotechnology Sharing

ABSTRACT First published in 1998, this was the first book to present a comprehensive summary of both the global as well as institutional issues which are involved in biotechnology sharing. It covers the controversial subject of intellectual property rights (IPR) and the patenting of new discoveries in genetic knowledge in both agriculture and the human genome. One controversial issue is the cr…

International Court of Justice and municipal courts: an inter-judicial dialogue

Municipal courts' decisions in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice -- Enforcement of ICJ decisions in municipal courts -- Reception of decisions of the ICJ by municipal courts.

Black women's stories of everyday racism: narrative analysis for social change

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Political behaviour in contemporary Finland: studies of voting and campaignin…

Part 1. The state of democracy -- Part 2. Elections, parties and candidates -- Part 3. Campaigning.

Traditional authority and security in contemporary Nigeria

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The Portuguese colonial war and the African liberation struggles: memory, pol…

Introduction / Miguel Cardina -- Portugal, colonial aphasia and the public memory of war / Miguel Cardina -- Politics of memory and silence: Angola's liberation struggle in postcolonial times / Vasco Martins -- The liberation struggle and the politics of heroism in Mozambique: the war veterans as remains of memory / Natália Bueno and Bruno Sena Martins -- Mantenhas para quem luta! : Evoking t…

Chinese macrosecuritization: China's alignment in global security discourses

Introduction: Securitizing global concerns -- From Securitization to macrosecuritization -- Security in China -- The Cold War then and now -- Anti-nuclear discourse in China -- Climate security with Chinese characteristics -- China's War on Terror -- Potential Chinese