Critical Human Rights Studies

The Critical Human Rights Studies series is committed to investigating today’s most pressing human rights issues from diverse interdisciplinary and intellectual perspectives. It embraces critically engaged scholarship, methodologies spanning the humanities and social sciences, creative non-fiction writing, co-produced approaches that bridge research and practice in human rights, and work that engages directly with policy. The series interrogates the human rights-related dimensions of phenomena such as colonisation, genocide, ecocide and environmental issues, migration, reconciliation projects, freedom of expression, digital rights, racism, poverty, indigenous peoples’ rights, corporate power and extractive industries.

Published in association with the Human Rights Consortium and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, this series is fully open access and welcomes new proposals in particular from those looking to bring perspectives and approaches from the humanities to address the series’ central concerns.

Series Editor

Damien Short, Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK.

Recently published

Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping, edited by Doug Specht (September 2020)

Refugee Reception in Southern Africa: National and Local Policies in Zambia and South Africa, Nicholas Maple (July 2024)

Reconciling Rwanda: Unity, Nationality and State Control, Jennifer Melvin (May 2020)