Books in the Political and Social Change series

This work addresses contemporary human rights issues as well as aesthetic and historical reflections on rights. It address rights as a matter of historical evolution, philosophy, and social norms. The work employs academic, journalistic, and commentary styles and is intended to engage both historical scenes and contemporary events.

This book addresses human rights, contemporary events and various historical scenes evocative of rights issues. Surveyed are problems such as human rights and the arts, terrorism, the Middle East conflict, the American presidential election and ideas of civilizational clash.

Politics of Dissent offers a framework to account for the multiple manifestations of dissent and their contributions to shape political alternatives. The book highlights the potential of dissent from the initial questioning of the dominant system to the creation of new political and social agendas.

The book investigates the negotiation of governmental rationalities of car-dependent life in the face of climate change. It unravels how villagers in a small Danish village negotiate a municipal strategy aimed at conducting their transportation practices in ways that merely sustain the villagers' already maintained car-dependent life forms.

This volume addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives: political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architectural history and conceptualizations of the political past.

The book addresses how Identity, structure and agency affect women's everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. Through interviews and workshops, women around Egypt express their own experiences in dialogue, in groups and in drawings. The reader get insights into personal experiences of a diverse group of women.

This book addresses the concepts of sovereignty, justice and justification in relation to western warfare. It argues that ontological assumptions about human life underpin these concepts. This book focuses on these assumptions and shifts our attention away from the question of our right to kill and towards the question of the construction of life.

Globalisation and social transformation, Immigration management (policy), Migration process and life course, Integration processes and identity formation, Intersectionality and biographical narrative method