State Crime and Civil Activism - Couverture souple

Green, Penny; Ward, Tony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367786540 ISBN 13 : 9780367786540

Editeur : Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Building on four years of international field research in Turkey, Tunisia, Burma/Myanmar, Colombia, Kenya and Papua New Guinea, this book considers how civil society organizations (CSOs) have labelled and exposed state crime, violence and corruption.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation and Head of Department at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). She has published extensively on state crime theory (including her monograph with Tony Ward, State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption), state violence, 'natural' disasters, genocide, mass forced evictions and resistance to state violence. She has a long track record of researching in hostile environments and has conducted fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Egypt, Kurdistan, Palestine/Israel, Tunisia and Myanmar. She is Founder and Co-Director of the award winning International State Crime Initiative (ISCI). Her seminal works, with ISCI colleagues Thomas MacManus and Alicia de la Cour Venning, on the Rohingya genocide, Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar (2015) and Genocide Achieved, Genocide Continues: Myanmar's Annihilation Of The Rohingya (2018), have drawn widespread global attention.

Tony Ward is Professor of Law at Northumbria University. He became interested in state crime and civil activism through working for INQUEST, a British NGO concerned with deaths in custody. In addition to state crime he writes and teaches on the law of evidence, legal history, jurisprudence and law and literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367786540
• ISBN 13: 9780367786540
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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