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  • The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

    by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...
    Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
    The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Pedagogy of Witnessing

    Curatorial Practice and the Pursuit of Social Justice

    by Roger I. Simon ...
    Series series SUNY series, Transforming Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Studies in Education
    Explores the curating of "difficult knowledge" through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.This outstanding comparative study on the curating of "difficult knowledge" focuses on two museum exhibitions that presented the same lynching photographs. Through a detailed description of the exhibitions and drawing on interviews with museum staff and visitor comments, Roger I. ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Between Hope and Despair

    Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma

    by Rachel Baum, Mario DiPaolantonio, Andrea Liss, Jody Ranck, Julie Salverson, Rinaldo Walcott, Deborah P. Britzman ...
    Series series Culture and Education Series
    At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend and ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • In Search of A Better World

    A Human Rights Odyssey

    by Payam Akhavan, PhD ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thinking Through Project-Based Learning

    Guiding Deeper Inquiry

    by Jane I. Krauss, Suzanne K. Boss ...
    Whether you are new to project-based learning or ready to strengthen your existing classroom projects, you'll find a full suite of strategies and tools in this essential book. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

    by Lila Abu-Lughod ...
    Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Freedom's Battle

    The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

    by Gary J. Bass ...
    This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action by exposing them to distant atrocities. Wildly ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Doing Critical Literacy

    Texts and Activities for Students and Teachers

    by Hilary Janks, Kerryn Dixon, Ana Ferreira, Stella Granville, Denise Newfield ...
    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Compelling and highly engaging, this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practice that can be adapted to any context. Integrating social theory and classroom practice, it brings critical literacy to life as a socio-cultural orientation to the teaching of literacy that takes seriously the relationship between language and power and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Other One Percent

    Indians in America

    by Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, Nirvikar Singh ...
    Series series Modern South Asia
    One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary, but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Radovan Karadžič

    Architect of the Bosnian Genocide

    by Robert J. Donia ...
    Radovan Karadžić, leader of the Bosnian Serb nationalists during the Bosnian War (1992–5), stands accused of genocide and other crimes of war before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. This book traces the origins of the extreme violence of the war to the utopian national aspirations of the Serb Democratic Party and Karadžić's personal transformation from an ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Integrating Human Rights into Development, Second Edition

    Donor Approaches, Experiences, and Challenges

    by OECD, World Bank ...
    The past two decades have witnessed a convergence between human rights and development, particularly at the level of international political statements and policy commitments. This phenomenon is captured in milestones such as the 2007 OECD DAC Action Oriented Policy Paper on Human Rights and Development (“AOPP”), the 2010 UN World Summit Outcome Document, the commitments of the 2005 and 2011 High ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding

    Edited by Philip Alston, Sarah Knuckey ...
    Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses. In recent years, human rights fact-finding has greatly proliferated and become more sophisticated and complex, while also being subjected to stronger scrutiny from governments. Nevertheless, despite the prominence of fact-finding, it remains strikingly ... Read more

    $80.99 USD