Expanding Human Rights

21st Century Norms and Governance

AvAlison Brysk,Michael Stohl

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This multi-disciplinary book addresses the ever-expanding notion of human rights within the 21st century. By analyzing the global dynamics of the mobilization of new actors, claims, institutions and modes of accountability, Brysk and Stohl assess the potential and limitations of global reforms. Expanding Human Rights gives a comprehensive overview of current human rights issues and the outlook for the future. The contributors present evidence of new methods for enforcing existing rights and new strategies for further development through in-depth analysis of campaigns and reforms from Eastern Europe, Japan, India, Africa and the US. These include rights of indigenous peoples, food and water rights, violence against women, child mortality and international financial and corporate responsibility. This book will interest academics and advanced students in human rights, international affairs, political science and law. Policy makers and global human rights activists will find the analyses and insights concerning the expansion of rights and the often accompanying backlash to be of great use when approaching their next human rights campaign.Contributors include: J. Alley, C. Apodaca, P. Ayoub, M. Baer, A. Brysk, S. Hertel, R. Howard-Hassmann, V. Hudson, F.G. Isa, H. Jo, W. Sandholtz, C. Stohl, M. Stohl, K. Tsutsui

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-01-27
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Elgar Studies in Human Rights
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781785368837

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Mer om författaren

Edited by Alison Brysk, Distinguished Professor, Department of Global Studies and Political Science and Michael Stohl, Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, US

Recensioner i media

'Rather than focus on states, international and regional organizations, and major nongovernmental organizations, this volume looks more to the edges and margins of the struggle for human rights. An excellent group of authors offer a diverse but coherent set of perspectives on how new actors, new claims, and new responsibilities are (and in a few cases are not) expanding the meaning and range of human rights in order to make human rights a more effective tool in a greater range of struggles for social justice.'

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:PART I Introduction 1. Expanding Human RightsAlison BryskPART II Expanding Actors2. A Struggle for Recognition and Rights: Expanding LGBT Activism Philip M. Ayoub3. How Do Global Human Rights Expand? A Case of Japan’s Burakumin Going GlobalKiyoteru Tsutsui4. Indigenous Peoples: From Objects Of Protection To Subjects Of Rights Felipe Gómez IsaPART III Expanding Claims5. Expanding Rights: New Frames For Violence Against WomenAlison Brysk6. The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Champions and Challengers in the Fight for New Rights AcceptanceMadeline Baer7. Human Rights and Corporate Social ResponsibilityMichael Stohl and Cynthia StohlPART IV Expanding Mechanisms8. Forging Alternative Routes to Norms Change: Economic Rights ProtagonistsShareen Hertel9. Expanding Rights: Norm Innovation in the European and Inter-American Courts Wayne Sandholtz10. Feminist Foreign Policy as State-Led Expansion of Human Rights Valerie M. HudsonPART V Expanding Responsibilities11. Janus-faced: Rebel Groups and Human Rights Responsibility Hyeran Jo and Joshua Alley12. Expanding Responsibilities: The Consequences of World Bank and IMF Policies on Child WelfareClair Apodaca13. Human Rights Contraction: Sovereignty and Denial of the Right to Food Rhoda E. Howard-HassmannPART VI Conclusion14. Conclusions on Norms, Institutions and ProcessesMichael StohlIndex