This volume explores the varied outcomes that self-determination movements around the world have achieved, and in particular seeks to understand what factors pr

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination dur

Created by social movement activists and left-wing parties during years of austerity, Barcelona en Comú, or the Comuns (as they are known in Catalan), won cont

Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other