Below is a selected list of research and publications by study group members.  Please note that this is a working document, and will be developed as individual members send through their information.  If you are a member, and would like to have your research added here, please send an email with full bibliographic references (in the harvard format) to: sociologyofrights@yahoo.com

Entire Collections (Special Issues & edited books) by the Study Group:

• Hynes, P, Lamb, M, Short, D, &  Waites, M (2010) Special Issue on the Sociology of Human Rights:  International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6
• Hynes, P, Lamb, M, Short, D, &  Waites, M (2011) The Sociology of Human Rights: New Engagements, Routledge 
• Hynes, P, Lamb, M, Short, D, &  Waites, M (2012) Special Issue on the Sociology of Human Rights:  Sociology, Volume 46, Number 5 
• Hynes, P, Lamb, M, Short, D, &  Waites, M (2012) New Directions in the Sociology of Rights:  International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 16, Number 8 

Publications by individual study group members (Non-exhuastive list):

• Alderson, Priscilla and Morrow, Virginia (2011) The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People: A Practical Handbook. London: Sage
• Canning, Vicky (2010) Who’s Human? Developing Sociological Understandings of the Rights of Women Raped in Conflict, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6
• Choudry, A., Hanley, J., and Shragge, E. (2012) Organize!: Building from the Local for Global Justice, London: PM Press
• Sara García Cuesta, Ana María López Sala, Elena Hernández Corrochano, Luis Mena Martínez (2011)

  Poblaciones-Mercancía: Tráfico y Trata de Mujeres en España [People for sale": smuggling and trafficking of women in Spain] Spain: Ministry of Health, Social Policy and Equality

• Dogra, N. (2012) Representations of Global Poverty: Aid, Development and International NGOs, London: I.B.Tauris
• Elson, Diane (2006) 'Women's Rights are Human Rights': Campaigns and Concepts. in Morris, L. (Ed.) Rights: Sociological Perspectives. Oxon: Routledge. 
• Ferrie, Joanne (2010) Sociology and Human Rights: What have they got to say about Care and Dignity?, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6   
• Grigolo, M (2010) Human rights and cities: the Barcelona Office for Non-Discrimination and its work for migrants, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6 
• Hajjar, L. (2012) Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights. New York: Routledge
• Hirvi, M. (2012). Water privatization and social citizenship: The case of urban water sector in Ghana Journal of Civil Society, Vol.8 Issue 4, pp.351-368 
• Hynes, Patricia (2011) The Dispersal and Social Exclusion of Asylum Seekers: Between Liminality and Belonging Bristol: Policy Press
• Hynes, P (2010) Global Points of ‘Vulnerability’: Understanding Processes of the Trafficking of Children and Young People into, within and out of the UK, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6 
• Hynes, P,  Lamb, M, Short, D & Waites, M (2010) Sociology and Human Rights: Confrontations, Evasions and New Engagements, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6
• Hynes, P, Lamb, M, Short, D & Waites, M (Eds.) (2010) Special Issue on the Sociology of Human Rights: International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6, November 2010
• Hynes, P, Lamb, M, Short, D & Waites, M (Eds.) (2011) The Sociology of Human Rights: New Engagements, Routledge 
• Lamb, Michele (2010) Loyalty and Human Rights: Liminality and Social Action in a Divided Society, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6 
• Lee-Gong, Eunna (2010) Contestations over Rights: From establishment to implementation of the National Basic Livelihood Security System in South Korea, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6 
• Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites, eds. (2013) Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: School of Advanced Study, University of London).  [Published free online at: http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/publications/house-publications/lgbt-rights-commonwealth] 
• Lewis, L. (Ed.) (2009), Mental Health and Human Rights: Social Policy and Sociological Perspectives.  Social Policy and Society (themed section), 8 (3), July.  See: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?decade=2000&jid=SPS&volumeId=8&issueId=02&iid=4571012
• Melvin, Jennifer (2010) Reconstructing Rwanda: Balancing Human Rights and the Promotion of National Reconciliation, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6 
• Miller, Hannah (2012) A change in charity law for England and Wales: examining War on Want's foremost adoption of the new human rights charitable purpose, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 16, Number 7  
• Miller, Hannah (2010) From ‘rights-based’ to ‘rights-framed’ approaches: A social constructionist view of human rights practice, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6 
• Morris,Lydia (2011) 'Asylum, welfare and the cosmopolitan ideal: A sociology of rights', Routledge:Glasshouse, http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0415497736/ref=sib_rdr_dp  
• Morris, Lydia. (2006) Introduction. in Morris, L. (Ed.) Rights: Sociological Perspectives. London, Routledge.
• Nah, Alice M. (2012) “Globalisation, Sovereignty, and Immigration Control: The Hierarchy of Rights for Migrant Workers in Malaysia.” Asian Journal of Social Science, 40(4): 486-508.
• Nah, Alice M.  (2011) “Legitimizing Violence: The Impact of Public ‘Crackdowns’ on Migrant Workers and Refugees in Malaysia.” Australian Journal of Human Rights 17(2): 131-157.
• Nah, Alice M. (2008) “Recognizing Indigenous Identity in Postcolonial Malaysian Law: Rights and Realities for the Orang Asli (aborigines) of Peninsular Malaysia.” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Lang- en Volkenkunde 164 (2/3): 212-237.
• Nah, Alice M. (2007) “Struggling with (Il)legality: The Indeterminate Functioning of Malaysia’s Borders for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Stateless Persons.” Pp. 35-64 in Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics and Territory’s Edge, edited by Prem K. Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
• Nah, Alice M. (2006) “Names as Sites of Identity Construction, Negotiation, and Resistance: Signifying Orang Asli in Postcolonial Malaysia.” Pp. 33-60 in Reconceptualising Ethnicity in Singapore and Malaysia, edited by Kwen F. Lian. Leiden: Brill.
• Nah, Alice M. (2006) “Negotiating Indigenous ‘Race’/Place in Postcolonial Peninsular Malaysia.” Geografiska Annaler 88B(3): 285-297.
• Nah, Alice M. (2005) “Ripples of Hope: Acehnese Refugees in Post-Tsunami Malaysia.” (with Timothy Bunnell) Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 26(2): 249-256.
• Nah, Alice M. (2004) “Counter-global Cases for Place: Contesting Displacement in Globalizing Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan Area.” (with Timothy Bunnell), Urban Studies 41(12): 2447-2468.
• Nah, Alice M. (2003) “Negotiating Indigenous Identity in Postcolonial Malaysia: Beyond Being ‘Not quite/ not Malay’.” Social Identities 9(4): 511-534 
• Nash, Kate (2011), ‘States of Human Rights’, with comments by Daniel Levy, Giovanna Procacci, George Steinmetz and Bryan S. Turner, and a Reply by the Author, Sociologica no. I (available at www.sociologica.mulino.it) 
• Nash, Kate (2011) ‘Towards a political sociology of human rights’ in E. Amenta, K. Nash and A. Scott (eds) The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 
• Nash, Kate (2010), ‘Media and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights’, Kiosque, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po (available at www.ceri-sciences-po.org/cerifr/kiosque.php) 
• Mayall, Berry and Morrow, Virginia (2011). You Can Help Your Country: English children’s work during the Second World War. Institute of Education  
• Pinson, H, Arnot, M and Candappa, M (2011) Education, Asylum and The ‘Non-Citizen’ Child: The Politics of Compassion and Belonging. Palgrave Macmillan
• Short, Damien. (2008) Sociological and Anthropological Approaches. in Goodhart, Michael. (Ed.) Human Rights: Politics and Practice. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Short, Damien (2010) Cultural Genocide and Indigenous Peoples: A Sociological Approach, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6 
• Straw, D. (2013) Human Rights Violations in Turkey: Rethinking Sociological Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan) 
• Waites, Matthew (2010) Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and the Generation of Childhoods: Analysing the Partial Decriminalization of ‘Unnatural Offences’ in India, International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 14, Number 6    
• Winter, Karen (2011) Building Relationships and Communicating with Young Children: a practical guide for social workers. Routledge 

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