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6 produkter
Chiefs in South Africa
Law, Power and Culture in the Post-Apartheid Era
Häftad, 2005
359 kr
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Examines the role of customary law and 'traditional' authority in contemporary South Africa.There is a surprising resurgence of traditional authority, custom and culture in post-apartheid South Africa, as part of a conscious African renaissance. Yet customary law studies highlight the artificial …
Urban Politics of Human Rights
Av Janne Nijman, Barbara Oomen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2134 kr
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Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspirations, or to protect vested (private) interests. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of …
Urban Politics of Human Rights
Av Janne Nijman, Barbara Oomen m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspirations, or to protect vested (private) interests. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of …
Rights for Others
The Slow Home-Coming of Human Rights in the Netherlands
Inbunden, 2013
1588 kr
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Rights for Others is an empirical study of what happens when international human rights are applied domestically in The Netherlands. It tracks recent debates in Dutch society on citizenship and the rights of immigrants, and analyses the shift from the perception of human rights as a 'foreign policy …
Global Urban Justice
The Rise of Human Rights Cities
Av Barbara Oomen, Martha F. Davis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1648 kr
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Cities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban actors and international organizations, to enable the 'translation' of the abstract language of human rights to the local level, and to develop new practices designed to …
Real Legal Certainty and its Relevance
Essays in honor of Jan Michiel Otto
Av Adriaan Bedner, Barbara Oomen
Häftad, 2018
420 kr
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The concept of ‘real legal certainty’ provides a much needed corrective to the general attention for legal certainty in this day and age. It emphasises relations between citizens, adds socio-legal insight, provides a ‘view from below,’ and thus leads to more realistic insights on how to build state …
