Human rights at the crossroads

Human rights at the crossroads / edited by Mark Goodale.

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a dramatic expansion in both the international human rights system and the transnational networks of activists, development organizations, and monitoring agencies that partially reinforce it. Yet despite or perhaps because of this explosive growth, the m...

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Other Authors: Goodale, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Human rights.
Human rights > Political aspects.
Genocide.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Genocide
Human rights
Human rights > Political aspects
Menschenrecht
Völkermord
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Table of Contents:
  • Human rights after the Post-Cold War / Mark Goodale
  • Human rights and the politics of contestation / Michael Goodhart
  • Why act towards one another "in a spirit of brotherhood"? : the grounds of human rights / Michael J. Perry
  • An overlapping consensus on human rights and human dignity / Ari Kohen
  • The "right to have rights" to the rescue : from human rights to global democracy / Eva Erman
  • Prosecuting human rights violations : universal jurisdiction and the crime of torture / Tobias Kelly
  • Solidarity and accountability : rethinking citizenship and human rights / Karen Ann Faulk
  • Whose vernacular? : translating human rights in local contexts / Daniel M. Goldstein
  • Sacred graves and human rights / Adam Rosenblatt
  • Human rights monitoring and the question of indicators / Sally Engle Merry
  • The paradox of perpetration : a view from the Cambodian genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton
  • "Why we care" : constructing solidarity / Alison Brysk
  • Historical amnesia, genocide, and the rejection of universal human rights / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
  • The law's legal anthropology / Ronald Niezen
  • Cutting human rights down to size / Harri Englund
  • Acceptable uses of people / Pheng Cheah.

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