ICPR/POLS 301: Development, Human Rights, and Transnational Injustices (HC)

Literature reviews are a particularly useful resource when doing research.  They address the issues involved in a particular question and the debates among scholars.  They map out the intellectual terrain succinctly and give you the major landmarks in terms of key authors and significant titles for greater understanding.  

Check here for examples of literature reviews devoted in whole or part to issues related to your topic.  Search for additional ones both in Annual Reviews and Oxford Bibliographies.

Annual Reviews        

• Agroecology for a Sustainable Agriculture and Food System: From Local Solutions to Large-Scale Adoption (2023) in the Annual Review of Resource Economics AND Food and Inequality (2023) in the Annual Review of Sociology  -- Jack
• Comparative Politics in Borderlands: Actors, Identities, and Strategies (2022) AND Borders, Conflict, and Trade (2015) both in the Annual Review of Political Science AND Religion, Nationalism and Violence: An Integrated Approach (2013) in the Annual Review of Sociology -- Fatema
• Cities and Politics in the Developing World (2018) in the Annual Review of Political Science, The Double Disparity Facing Rural Local Health Departments (2016) and Reimagining Rural: Shifting Paradigms About Health and Well-Being in the Rural United States (2022) in the Annual Review of Public Health   -- Kolin
• Does Foreign Aid Build Peace? (2018) in the Annual Review of Political Science AND From Embedded Autonomy to Counter-Hegemonic Globalization (2023) in the Annual Review of Sociology -- Sydney
• Governing Global Supply Chains: What We Know (and Don't) About Improving Labor Rights and Working Conditions (2015) in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Structure and Context: A Multi-Level Approach to Supply Chain Governance (2023) AND Labor Unions, Political Representation and Economic Inequality (2017) both in the Annual Review of Political Science -- Ivy
• Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today (2022) in the Annual Review of Sociology, Solving Homelessness from a Complex Systems Perspective: Insights for Preventive Responses (2021) in the Annual Review of Public Health AND Housing, Poverty, and the Law (2015) in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science -- Caroline
• How Distortions Alter the Impacts of International Trade in Developing Countries (2020) in the Annual Review of Economics AND What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse? (2015) in the Annual Review of Political Science  -- Siena
• Immigration Law beyond Borders: Externalizing and Internalizing Border Controls in an Era of Securitization (2014), On the Interdependence of Liberal and Illiberal/Authoritarian Legal Forms in Racial Capitalist Regimes ...The Case of the United States (2021)  both in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science AND Violence, Place and Strengthened Space: A Review of Immigration Stress, Violence Exposure and Intervention for Immigrant Latinx Youth and Families (2021) in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology -- Stephanie
• Indigenous People's Politics in Latin America (2010) in the Annual Review of Political Science AND  Psychology and Indigenous People (2022) in the Annual Review of Psychology -- Alan
• Local Government Dependence on Criminal Justice Revenue and Emerging Constraints (2021) in the Annual Review of Criminology AND Racial Innocence: Law, Social Science and the Unknowing of Racism in the US Carceral State (2019) in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science -- Gabriel
• The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Racial Politics of Crime and Punishment in the Post–Civil Rights Era (2020) in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, How Does Structural Racism Operate (in) the Contemporary U S Criminal Justice System? (2024) in the Annual Review of Criminology [Get full text through Articles request ] AND Considerations for Developing an Agenda for Gun Violence Prevention Research (2021) in the Annual Review of Public Health -- Bukky
• Political Islam: Asking the Wrong Questions? (2006) in the Annual Review of Political Science AND Wealth Inequality and Accumulation (2017) in the Annual Review of Sociology --  Sara
• The Politics of Racist Dehumanization in the United States (2023) in the Annual Review of Political Science AND The Invisibility of Power: A Cultural Ecology of Development in the Contemporary United States (2023) in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology -- Tom
• Public Attitudes Towards Immigration (2014) in the Annual Review of Political Science AND Understanding Immigrant Detention: Causes, Conditions and Consequences (2019) in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science -- Ella
• Recent Trends in Global Economic Inequality (2021) in the Annual Review of Sociology AND Capital in the Twenty-First Century - in the Rest of the World (2016) in the Annual Review of Political Science -- Scott
• The Sociology of Empires, Colonies and Postcolonialism (2014) in the Annual Review of Sociology AND Language and Race: Settler Colonial Consequences and Epistemic Disruptions (2023) in the Annual Review of Anthropology -- Carly
• Advancing Health Equity Efforts to Reduce Obesity (2022) in the Annual Review of Nutrition, Theories of the Causes of Poverty (2019) in the Annual Review of Sociology AND Moving beyond Correlations in Assessing the Consequences of Poverty (2017) in the Annual Review of Psychology -- Michela
• Voter Identification Laws and Turnout in the United States (2017) in the Annual Review of Political Science AND When and Why Minority Legislators Matter (2014) in the Annual Review of Political Science -- Rosario

These kinds of reference books provide overviews that address major issues within a field of study.  The authors not only discuss key content but provide a more sophisticated level of analysis and contextualization than you might find in a textbook or introductory study.  The authors are chosen for their research areas and deliver authoritative essays.  The material they choose to include in their bibliographies are good points of departure.

The following sources summarize political and legislative issues and provide a good overview of ideas about social justice and other topics.  They provide an excellent resource for quickly identifying key players, terminology, and points of view.