This research explores the growing tensions that exist between the humanitarian frameworks that guide the protection of civilians and the complex, shifting arena of contemporary wars. Armed actors from different political, ...

Global governance institutions play an increasingly important and influential role in global politics. Despite a growing focus in the literature on global governance institutions’ legitimacy, the applicability of both ...

This study investigates how graffiti writing is learnt and how graffiti writers experience this learning. Drawing on the concept of communities of practice, it frames graffiti as a skillful and aesthetic practice that is ...

Since the late 1980s, many norms relating to the recognition of sexual orientation-based rights have come to be accepted and institutionalised at the international level. One of these, based on developments in multiple ...

This thesis uses radical feminist political theory to investigate whether women’s use of social media can reignite the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM). In doing so, the thesis provides the first internal critique of ...

This study examines the meaning of money as a legal remedy recognizing individual injuries as collective grievances. The case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where post-war transition has provided limited reparations, ...

This thesis, based on fieldwork in North America, explores worlds of disability, both personal and shared, as they are felt and come into being for fathers caring for children with disabilities. I argue that while disability ...

In this thesis, I examine the role of traditional authorities in conflict management and peace-building in the North-West of Cameroon. I compare two sites within the region (Kom and Bali administrative areas), which have ...

This thesis is partly a study of the Victorian Labor party's parliamentary performance, partly of the party's organizational wing, and to lesser extent it examines relations between the state Executive and the Trades Hall ...

This thesis examines emerging (and possibly subsiding) far-right ethnic nationalist groups in Australia and the UK, including the English Defence League and the Australian Defence League. For reasons outlined in the thesis, ...