This series
features important new works by leading figures in the interdisciplinary
field of human rights. Books in the series present provocative and powerful
statements, theories, or views on contemporary issues in human rights.
The aim of the series is to provide, short, accessible works that will
present new and original thinking in crystalline form and in a language
accessible to a wide range of scholars, policymakers, students, and
general readers. The series will include works by anthropologists, sociologists,
philosophers, political scientists, and those working in the more traditional
fields of human rights, including practitioners.
Thomas
Cushman is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College. He previously
edited a series for the Penn State University Press titled Post-Communist
Cultural Studies in which a dozen volumes appeared. He is the founding
editor of two journals, Human Rights Review and the Journal
of Human Rights, and he now serves as Editor-at-Large for the latter.
He is a Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology
