Research Agenda for Human Rights

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

'This very timely volume looks forward to a dynamic new interdisciplinary agenda for human rights research. Including chapters on the origins of human rights, the insights economics offers for women's rights and the imminent dangers of environmental activism, it illustrates the diverse approaches to human rights scholarship as well as the urgent need for it. Michael Stohl and Alison Brysk's A Research Agenda for Human Rights is an excellent riposte to recent assertions about the end or futility of the human rights project.'

• Contents:1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for HumanRights: Generations of human rights scholarship 1Alison Brysk2 The study of human rights history:A corpus-based linguistic approach to ’humanrights‘ in the nineteenth-century British press 9Eetu Vento3 Humanitarianism: Coping in the void 23David P. Forsythe4 ‘People out of place’: Developing a human rightsresearch agenda on internally displaced persons 37Champa Patel5 International human rights law: Progress and prospects 51Kyle Rapp and Wayne Sandholtz6 The future of transitional justice: Mercy or impunity? 75Iosif Kovras7 Academic freedom as a human right 89George Andreopoulos8 Socio-economic rights: Consolidating progress,charting future directions 111Inga T. Winkler9 Women’s rights: Then and now 127Feryal Cherif10 Inhumane environments: Global violence againstenvironmental justice activists as a human rightsviolation 141Jeff Feng, Matto Mildenberger and Leah C. Stokes11 The public, the private, and the business-societal:A threefold approach to business responsibilityfor human rights 155Janne Mende12 Understanding human rights at the local level 173Gerd Oberleitner and Klaus StarlIndex 187