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Responsibility for Human Rights
An original analysis of which global actors are responsible for human rights in today's world and why.
Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture
This unique collection explores the complex issue of vigilantism, how it is represented in popular culture, and what is its impact on behavior and the implications for the rule of law. The book is a transnational investigation across a range of eleven different jurisdictions, including accounts of the Anglophone world (Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States), European experiences (Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Portugal), and South American jurisdictions (Argentina and Brazil). The essays, written by prominent international scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and media studies, present data, historical and recent examples of vigilantism; examine the national Laws and jur...
The Latin American Casebook
Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions. This casebook takes account of this phenomenon, by offering a rigorous and up-to-date discussion of constitutional adjudication in Latin America in recent decades. Bringing to the forefront the development of constitutional law by Latin American courts in various subject matters, the volume aims to highlight a host of creative arguments and solutions that judges in the region have offered. The authors review and discuss innovative case law in light of the countries’ social, political and legal context. Each chapter is devoted to a discussion of a particular area of judicial review, from freedom of expression to social and economic rights, from the internalization of human rights law to judicial checks on the economy, from gender and reproductive rights to transitional justice. The book thus provides a very useful tool to scholars, students and litigants alike.
The Country of Football
"In time for Brazil's hosting of the 2014 World Cup, this book uses the stories of star players and other key figures (based on over 40 interviews) to create a contemporary history of Brazilian soccer from the 1950s to the present. It also explores race and class tensions in Brazil and shows how soccer is central to the country's dramatic trajectory toward modernity and economic power"--
Authoritarian Police in Democracy
Explains the persistence of violent, unaccountable policing in democratic contexts.
Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts
This book examines the role of post-conflict memorial arts in bringing about gender justice in transitional societies. Art and post-violence memorialisation are currently widely debated. Scholars of human rights and of commemorative arts discuss the aesthetics and politics not only of sites of commemoration, but of literature, poetry, visual arts and increasingly, film and comics. Art, memory and activism are also increasingly intertwined. But within the literature around post-conflict transitional justice and critical human rights studies, there is little questioning about what memorial arts do for gender justice, how women and men are included and represented, and how this intertwines with...
Amnesty in Brazil
In 1895, forty-seven rebel military officers contested the terms of a law that granted them amnesty but blocked their immediate return to the armed forces. During the century that followed, numerous other Brazilians who similarly faced repercussions for political opposition or outright rebellion subsequently made claims to forms of recompense through amnesty. By 2010, tens of thousands of Brazilians had sought reparations, referred to as amnesty, for repression suffered during the Cold War–era dictatorship. This book examines the evolution of amnesty in Brazil and describes when and how it functioned as an institution synonymous with restitution. Ann M. Schneider is concerned with the politics of conciliation and reflects on this history of Brazil in the context of broader debates about transitional justice. She argues that the adjudication of entitlements granted in amnesty laws marked points of intersection between prevailing and profoundly conservative politics with moments and trends that galvanized the demand for and the expansion of rights, showing that amnesty in Brazil has been both surprisingly democratizing and yet stubbornly undemocratic.
From Revolution to Power in Brazil
From Revolution to Power in Brazil: How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership examines terrorism from a new angle. Kenneth Serbin portrays a generation of Brazilian resistance fighters and militants struggling to rebuild their lives after suffering torture and military defeat by the harsh dictatorship that took control with the support of the United States in 1964, exiting in 1985. Based on two decades of research and more than three hundred hours of interviews with former members of the revolutionary organization National Liberating Action, Serbin’s is the first book to bring the story of Brazil’s long night of dictatorship into the present. It explores Braz...
O vazamento
Depois de doze anos preso, o whistleblower mais famoso do mundo, o australiano Julian Assange, foi solto ontem, após acordo com o Departamento de Justiça americano. Assange fundou em 2006 o grupo ativista WikiLeaks, que ficou mundialmente conhecido pelo Cablegate, o maior vazamento de documentos da história, com cerca de 700 mil arquivos confidenciais e militares dos Estados Unidos divulgados em 2011. Em O vazamento, Natalia Viana, uma das vozes mais importantes dojornalismo brasileiro, conta sua experiência como a única brasileira a ter participado do Cablegate. Elaera uma repórter independente quando se tornou a responsável por elaborar e coordenar a divulgação em primeira mão do...
Furos, mentiras e segredos revelados
Organizado pelas fundadoras da Pública, este livro reúne dez artigos — além de introdução, prefácio e posfácio — sobre a atuação e a relevância da primeira e mais inovadora agência de jornalismo investigativo do país desde sua fundação, em 2011, na esteira das revelações do WikiLeaks. De lá pra cá, foram mais de cinquenta prêmios nacionais e internacionais, e centenas de reportagens essenciais para a compreensão da realidade brasileira. Furos, mentiras e segredos revelados é leitura fundamental para quem busca respostas aos dilemas vividos pelo jornalismo em tempos de Facebook, WhatsApp e fake news.
