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Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial? : A Comparative Perspective on Evi…
This open access publication discusses exclusionary rules in different criminal justice systems. It is based on the findings of a research project in comparative law with a focus on the question of whether or not a fair trial can be secured through evidence exclusion. Part I explains the legal framework in which exclusionary rules function in six legal systems: Germany, Switzerland, People’s …
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- 9783030125202
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- xv, 389 p.
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- 347.062 DOE S
The Springs Of Democracy : National and Transnational Debates on Constitution…
During the First World War, conflicts between the people’s sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy and parliamentarism and their transnational links. The British reform, although more about winning the war than advancing democracy, rest…
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- 9789522229281
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- 590 p.
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- 940.5 SPR P
Politicizing Digital Space : Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy
"The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less …
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- 9781911534426
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- vi, 154 p.
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- 324.7 POL T
John Dewey : The Global Public and its Problems
"This book argues that John Dewey should be read as a philosopher of globalization rather than as a 'local' American philosopher. Although Dewey's political philosophy was rooted in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America, it was more importantly about the role of America in a globalized world. In returning to, and recovering the neglected global dimensions of Dewey's political phil…
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- 9781526101020
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- xii, 192 p.
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- 320.01 JOH J
The Birth of Energy : Fossil fuels, thermodynamics and the politics of work
In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of indust…
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- 9781478005346
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- ix, 280 p.
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- 333.79 BIR C
Bordering intimacy : Postcolonial Governance and the Policing of Family
Bordering intimacy is a study of how borders and dominant forms of intimacy, such as family, are central to the governance of postcolonial states such as Britain. The book explores the connected history between contemporary border regimes and the policing of family with the role of borders under European and British empires. Building upon postcolonial, decolonial and black feminist theory, the …
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- 9781526146946
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- xii, 312 p.
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- 320.12 BOR J
The Spectacle 2.0 : Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism
Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord’s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour…
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- 9781911534464
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- xi, 252 p.
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- 303.484 SPE E
Essays in Anarchism and Religion : Volume III
"Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition neces…
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- 9789176351109
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- 342 p.
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- 320.57 ESS A
Feminist Methodologies : Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections
This open access book gives insights into feminist methodologies in theory and practice. By foregrounding the experiential and embodied nature of doing feminist research, this book offers valuable tools for feminist research as a continuous praxis. Emerging from a rich collective learning process, the collection offers in-depth reflections on how feminists shape research questions, understand p…
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- 9783030826543
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- xix, 296 p.
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- 305.42072 FEM W
Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement
This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor are they purely technical in nature since construction and maintenance are subject to safety regulation and enforcement by governmental agencies. The book analyses four relev…
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- 9783030678180
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- xvii, 182 p.
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- 352.5 COL W
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