Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan – författare

This book examines the engagement between the United Nations’ human rights machinery and the respective governments since Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) joined the United Nations. Sri Lanka has a long and rich history of engagement with international human rights instruments.

This book on peace and justice for all is part of a path-breaking initiative by Springer Nature heralding a new publication format compiling auto-summaries of literature. State-of-the-art computer algorithms were applied to select relevant sources from original articles published by Springer Nature. The selection was then rearranged in a topical order, and short summaries of the selected articles were provided. The result is the auto-summarization of current texts, organized by means of a similarity-based clustering routine in coherent chapters and sections. The book collects material from about 150 original research articles published from 2018 to 2022. Every chapter comes with an introduction by the human expert that connects the dots of content chosen for that chapter and attempts to fill gap areas. In addition to more conventional topics such as crimes against women, children, and marginalized communities, human trafficking, criminal justice, activist suppression, access to social justice, institutions, and so on, the book contains discussions on relatively newer areas such as environmental and ecological justice. The book serves as a useful resource for anyone who wants to gain a quick overview of the topic, especially current developments in the field. Due to interdisciplinary nature of the content, the content is of importance to readers from a wide array of humanitarian research.Note: The auto-summaries have been generated by a recursive clustering algorithm via the Dimensions Auto-summarizer by Digital Science handled by Subject Matter Experts and the editors of this book. The editors of this book selected which SN content should be auto-summarized and decided its order of appearance. Please be aware that these are extractive auto-summaries, which consist of original sentences, but are not representative of its original paper, since we do not show the full length of the publication. Please note that only published SN content is represented here, and that machine-generated books are still at an experimental stage.

The books aims to discuss and present an alternative epistemology of human rights, against the background of the globalization from below. The interdependent network of transnational networks, ranging from social movements, NGOs, and other groupings, questions the neoliberal paradigm and a particular set of human rights. This book wishes to transform this discourse on human rights and amplify the subaltern voices. The book also aims to highlight alternative practices of freedom that decenter human rights as a liberation discourse. Following Julia Suarez-Krabbe in “Race, Rights and Rebels”, the authors aim to amend to practices of freedom that center different orders of knowledge on subjectivity and agency. The proposed book, first, situates the problem of representation of the marginalized voices in contemporary legal and political discourse. Second, it offers critiques in theory, and, third, followed by alternative practices that emanate from marginalized localities. In particular, this book wishes to reflect upon alternatives rooted in legal and non-legal responses to address human rights grievances. In the end, this book envisages, along the lines of Frantz Fanon, to vision the possibility of the human by a new concept, addressing the concerns in various ways: As Fanon argued for “a new start”, “a new way of thinking”, and for the creation of a “new man”, it is pertinent to trigger a human rights project from the below.< p="">^