The'punitive turn'has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state,
and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers …

This book began with two questions. Firstly, what role did the comic book superhero play in
the history of posthumanism? Secondly, how did comic book readers relate to these …

Understanding the Sociology of Health continues to offer an easy to read introduction to
sociological theories essential to understanding the current health climate. Up-to-date with …

Deniable Contact provides the first full-length study of the secret negotiations and back-
channels that were used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict. The analysis …

Which socializing agents are influential in people joining terror groups? What ideologies do
terror groups hold? Which aspects of societies and social contexts contribute towards …

An enduring form of protest, the hunger strike features in numerous historical and
contemporary political and social movements. Yet its simple denial of food is belied by its …

Hunger strikes are commonly repressed in prison and seen as disruptive, coercive, and
violent. Hunger strikers and their advocates insist that incarcerated persons have a right to …

This article uses the case of the 1981 Irish republican prison protest to show that indefinite
hunger strikes can force Euromodern states to the negotiating table by undercutting their …

Prisons have featured repeatedly in narratives of terrorist and other violent extremist groups.
Such groups have exploited the imprisonment of their members as a propaganda tool aimed …

This book presents a radical, but compelling, argument that liberal democracies must be
able accommodate violent protest. We often think of violent protest as being alien to liberal …