"Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." - Cornel West "Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time." - J. M. Bernstein
Stephen Lawrence was a bright, athletic, young man with high hopes for the future. He lived in south-east London with his parents, younger brother and younger sister. On 22 April 1993, he was brutally murdered while he was waiting for the bus.
The massacre at Amritsar on 13th April 1919 spurred one survivor to vow revenge. Twenty-one years later Udham Singh was arrested for the murder of Michael O'Dwyer, the instigator of the killings. Anita Anand traces Singh's extraordinary journey.
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that ...
The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising from the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century.
***LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019*** How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for fifty years? 'A timely reminder of what truly great journalists can achieve.'