Part I: Identifying the Legal Person -- 1. The Troublesome ‘Person (Bartosz Brozek) -- 2. Legal Persons as Abstractions (Ngaire Naffine) -- 3. The Idea of Non-Personal Subjects of Law (Tomasz Pietrzykowski) -- Part II Persons, Things and Rights -- 4. Why Things Can Hold Rights: Reconceptualizing the Legal Person (Visa Kurki) -- 5. The Right of a House (Qing Xiangyang) -- 6. Animals' Race Agai…
1 -- Introduction -- Part I: Housing, rights, land policy, and global social citizenship -- 2. The monitoring of human rights Discourses on housing -- 4. Land policy meets social citizenship on a global level -- Part II: The discourse on the human right housing under the monitoring system of the ICESCR -- 5. Changing views: Housing in the past four decades -- 6. Comparative discussion: Interpre…
Chapter 1. Global Social Justice, Democracy and Leadership of Higher Education: An Introduction; Lynette Shultz and Melody Viczko -- PART I: LEADERSHIP AND THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF EDUCATION -- Chapter 2. Sustainability and Social Justice: Leadership Challenges; Chris Shiel and David Jones -- Chapter 3. Fairness, Equity and Social Cooperation: A Moderate Islamic Social Justice Leadership Model f…
Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Big Questions About Sustainability and Viability in Small-Scale Fisheries -- Chapter 2. Overview of Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Prospects -- Part 2. Issues Challenges and Threats -- Chapter 3. Adaptive Capacity to Coastal Disasters: Challenges and Lessons from Small-Scale Fishing Communities in Central-Southern Chil…
Introduction -- Agroextractivism: the desert grows -- The economic rationality of agroextractivism -- Territorial control and geographical expansion of agribusiness -- The government of the affects -- Agroecology in post-development settings -- Re-inhabiting the skin of the earth through agro-ecology -- The future, behind.This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing t…
This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy – the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book proposes a novel arr…
1. Struggling for the Right to be Recognized -- 2. The Right to Adequate Housing Following Forced Evictions in Post-Conflict Colombo, Sri Lanka -- 3. Unsettling Resettlements -- 4. “It Felt Like You Were at a War” -- 5. Domicide and the Coalition --
Introduction -- Part I Self-Determination and Secession Versus Territorial Integrity in International Law: The Recognition of the Right to Self-Determination in International Law -- The Right to Self-Determination and Unilateral Secession -- Part II The Independence of Kosovo and Crimea in the Light of Contemporary International Law: Kosovo's Long Road to Independence in 2008 -- The Crimea's De…
This book is an interdisciplinary attempt to understand the contemporaneous human condition of asylum seekers through analysis of their entrapment and the resultant new forms of resistance that have emerged to combat it. Based on qualitative research data, the chapters support the claim that asylum seekers are entrapped in social, legal and economic precariousness amidst the complex relationshi…
This book offers a comparison of the differences between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both. Beginning with the origins of the concept of privacy, before addressing more current thinking, the authors examine the notion of privacy and policing, using both direct (e.g. 'stop and search' methods) and technological intervent…