Rethinking the Stranger in a ‘World of Strangers’: Power Relations, Tolerance and Cosmopolitanism

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2009-01-01

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Tongo Overfield Shaw, Gizem

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Rights, Citizenship and Torture: Perspectives on Evil, Law and the State

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G. Tongo Overfield Shaw, Rethinking the Stranger in a ‘World of Strangers’: Power Relations, Tolerance and Cosmopolitanism. 2009.