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Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network

Author : Lena Khor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317119800
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network written by Lena Khor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her innovative study of human rights discourse, Lena Khor takes up the prevailing concern by scholars who charge that the globalization of human rights discourse is becoming yet another form of cultural, legal, and political imperialism imposed from above by an international human rights regime based in the Global North. To counter these charges, she argues for a paradigmatic shift away from human rights as a hegemonic, immutable, and ill-defined entity toward one that recognizes human rights as a social construct comprised of language and of language use. She proposes a new theoretical framework based on a global discourse network of human rights, supporting her model with case studies that examine the words and actions of witnesses to genocide (Paul Rusesabagina) and humanitarian organizations (Doctors Without Borders). She also analyzes the language of texts such as Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. Khor's idea of a globally networked structure of human rights discourse enables actors (textual and human) who tap into or are linked into this rapidly globalizing system of networks to increase their power as speaking subjects and, in so doing, to influence the range of acceptable meanings and practices of human rights in the cultural sphere. Khor’s book is a unique and important contribution to the study of human rights in the humanities that revitalizes viable notions of agency and liberatory network power in fields that have been dominated by negative visions of human capacity and moral action.

Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network

Author : Lena Khor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network written by Lena Khor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hegemony and World Order

Author : Piotr Dutkiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000191451
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hegemony and World Order written by Piotr Dutkiewicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony – that is, legitimated rule by dominant power – have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does that hegemony take: does it lie with a leading state or with some other force? How does contemporary world hegemony operate: what tools does it use and what outcomes does it bring? This volume addresses these questions by assembling perspectives from various regions across the world, including Canada, Central Asia, China, Europe, India, Russia and the USA. The contributions in this book span diverse theoretical perspectives from realism to postcolonialism, as well as multiple issue areas such as finance, the Internet, migration and warfare. By exploring the role of non-state actors, transnational networks, and norms, this collection covers various standpoints and moves beyond traditional concepts of state-based hierarches centred on material power. The result is a wealth of novel insights on today's changing dynamics of world politics. Hegemony and World Order is critical reading for policymakers and advanced students of International Relations, Global Governance, Development, and International Political Economy.

The Wretched of the Global South

Author : Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789819992744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Wretched of the Global South written by Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2024-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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="" ^

Human Rights in Action

Author : Miia Halme-Tuomisaari
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004189866
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Action written by Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study combines anthropological and critical legal approaches to explore the conceptions of knowledge, expertise and learning of a network of Nordic human rights experts. It explores how the ideals of emancipation are realized in human rights action.

Human Rights and Media

Author : Diana Papademas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0762300523
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Media written by Diana Papademas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VI on Human Rights and Media introduces and analyzes the significant relationship and discourse of human rights and media. As agenda setters, framers and integral actors in human rights movements, various forms of media are analyzed by the contributing authors.

The Future of Human Rights

Author : Upendra Baxi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019908789X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Human Rights written by Upendra Baxi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. The work analyses the significance of the United Nations (UN) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and goes on to study the more contemporary issues such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the postmodernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current world scene, it analyses the impact of globalization on the human rights movement. The volume includes a discussion on the proposed UN norms regarding the human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations and other business entities.

Exploring International Human Rights

Author : Rhonda L. Callaway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781588264374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Exploring International Human Rights written by Rhonda L. Callaway and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together key selections that represent the full range of philosophical debates, policy analyses, and first-hand accounts, the editors offer a comprehensive and accessible set of readings on the major themes and issues in the field of international human rights. The reader has been carefully designed to enhance students? understanding not only of human rights, but also of differing perspectives on the topic.Rhonda L. Callaway is assistant professor of political science at Sam Houston State University. Julie Harrelson-Stephens is assistant professor of political science at Stephen F. Austin University.Contents: What Are Human Rights? Introduction?the Editors. What Are Human Rights?: Definitions and Typologies of Today?s Human Rights Discourse?the Editors. What Future for Economic and Social Rights??D. Beetham. Basic Rights?H. Shue. The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights?J.J. Shestack. Measuring Human Rights. Introduction?the Editors. The Limitations of Using Quantitative Data in Studying Human Rights Abuses?R.J. Goldstein. Measuring Human Rights: Some Issues and Options?D.L. Richards. The Political Terror Scale?M. Gibney and M. Dalton. How are These Pictures Different?: A Quantitative Comparison of the US State Department and Amnesty International Human Rights Reports, 1976-1995?S.C. Poe, S.C. Carey, and T.C. Vazquez. Using the Physical Quality of Life Index to Explore the Level of Subsistence Rights?W.T. Milner and R.L. Callaway. International Law and Organizations in the Fight for Human Rights. Introduction?the Editors. The Normative and Institutional Evolution of International Human Rights?T. Buergenthal. The International Criminal Court Controversy?R.W. Tucker. Refugee Flows as Grounds for International Action?A. Dowty and G. Loescher. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks In International Politics?M.E. Keck and K. Sikkink. Are Human Rights Universal? Introduction?the Editors. The Rhetoric of Asian Values?R.L. Callaway. Relativism and Universalism in Human Rights: The Case of the Islamic Middle East?F. Halliday. American Muslims and a Meaningful Human Rights Discourse in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001?I.Z. Shakir. Restraining Universalism: Africanist Perspectives on Cultural Relativism in the Human Rights Discourse?B. Ibhawoh. Witness to Torture. Introduction?the Editors. Auschwitz: A Doctor?s Eyewitness Account?M. Nyiszli. A Cambodian Odyssey?H. Ngor. One Day in My Life?B. Sands. The Tenth Circle of Hell?R. Hukanovi?. Machete Season?J. Hatzfeld. Gender Based Repression. Introduction?the Editors. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy?K. Bales. Trafficking in Women?s Bodies, Then and Now: The Issue of Military ?Comfort Women??K. Wantanabe. Rights of Women with Islamic Communities?R. Hassan. Female Circumcision Comes to America?L. Burstyn. Children as Targets. Introduction?the Editors. Child Labor as a Human Rights Issue: Efforts, Mistakes, and Solutions?Z.F.K. Arat. Child Marriage in Afghanistan and Pakistan?A. Bushnell. Child Slaves in Modern India: The Bonded Labor Problem?L. Tucker. The Sex Trade Industry?s Worldwide Exploitation of Children?R.B. Flowers. The Political Economy of War-Affected Children?S. Hick. Globalization and Human Rights. Introduction?the Editors. Achieving Human Rights: The Globalization Debate?J. Harrelson-Stephens. Globalization and Human Rights?R. McCorquodale and R. Fairbrother. The Tragedy of Tauccamarca: A Human Rights Perspective on the Pesticide Poisoning of 24 Children in the Peruvian Andes?E. Rosenthal. Strategic Violations: The Outsourcing of Human Rights Abuses?N. Gordon. The Singer Solution to Poverty?P. Singer. Human Rights in the War on Terror. Introduction?the Editors. Human Rights Violations as a Catalyst for Terrorist Activity?the Editors. Leading by Example?: US Interrogation of Prisoners in the War on Terror?E. Massimino. Human Rights Post?September 11th?J. Mertus and T. Sajjad.

National Human Rights Action Planning

Author : Azadeh Chalabi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019255560X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book National Human Rights Action Planning written by Azadeh Chalabi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date. At the theoretical level, by advancing a novel general theory of human rights planning, it offers an alternative to the traditional state-centric model of planning. This new theory contains four sub-theories: contextual, substantive, procedural, and analytical ones. At the doctrinal level, by conducting a textual analysis of core human rights conventions, it reveals the scope and nature of the states' obligation to adopt a plan of action for implementing human rights. At the empirical level, a cross-case analysis of national human rights action plans of 53 countries is conducted exploring the major problems of these plans in different phases of planning and uncovering the underlying causes of these problems. At the practical level, this volume sets out how these plans should be developed and implemented, how they can be best monitored by international human rights bodies, and how to maximize their effectiveness. With discussions bridging human rights theory and practice and development discourse, this book will be a useful resource for a wide range of audiences, from academics of different disciplines (law, human rights, social policy, political science, political philosophy, legal philosophy, development studies, planning studies, socio-legal studies) to governments, human rights practitioners, and the UN human rights bodies.

The Power of Human Rights

Author : Thomas Risse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521658829
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Human Rights written by Thomas Risse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tunisia and Morocco.

Human Rights and the Global Marketplace

Author : Jeanne M. Woods
Publisher : Brill Nijhoff
ISBN 13 : 9781571052742
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and the Global Marketplace written by Jeanne M. Woods and published by Brill Nijhoff. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special adoption price: $95.00/copy, 10 or more At a time of great change, turmoil, and contradiction in international human rights law and politics, authors Jeanne M. Woods and Hope Lewis have responded to the growing need for a classroom text that focuses squarely on economic, social, and cultural rights--"the neglected step-children of the human rights family"--and their intimate inter-relationship to civil and political rights. Students and instructors will find the results informative and provocative. Intended for use in law school, graduate, and undergraduate survey courses, as well as seminars on human rights, this book will be useful for teachers using both international and comparative approaches. The text is divided into four accessible parts: I. "Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Discursive Themes" introduces the nature and scope of human rights discourse. II. "International Instruments and Their Implementation" takes students through an array of international and regional human rights treaties that address economic, social, and cultural rights. III. "Power, Politics, and Poverty: Structural Challenges to the Realization of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights" addresses major controversies in, and barriers to, the realization of socio-economic and cultural rights. IV. "Comparative Approaches" is valuable for international human rights, comparative law, and comparative constitutional law courses. Throughout the book, the authors provide notes, questions, and further reading suggestions to stimulate classroom discussion, debate, and research. The volume also includes valuable appendices, with a bibliography of relevant texts and articles and a selection of NGOs that focus on these issues. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint. Winner of the Notable Contribution in the Field of Human Rights Scholarship award at the US Human Rights Network National Conference in Chicago in April 2008

Taking Root

Author : James Ron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019997506X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Taking Root written by James Ron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights organizations have grown exponentially across the globe, particularly in the global South, and the term human rights is now common parlance among politicians and civil society activists. While debates about human rights are waged in elite circles, what do publics in the global South think about human rights ideas and the organizations that promote them? Drawing on large-scale public opinion surveys and interviews with human rights practitioners in India, Mexico, Morocco, and Nigeria, Taking Root finds that most people are in fact broadly supportive of human rights discourse, trust local human rights groups, and do not view human rights as a tool of foreign powers. However, this general public support isn't grounded in strong commitments of public engagement, money, or local ties to the human rights sector. Publics in the global South do donate to charitable causes and organizations but rarely give to local rights groups, and these organizations must instead seek aid from foreign sources. As the most informative and comprehensive account of public perceptions of human rights available across several regions of the world, Taking Root challenges a number of accepted truths held by human rights supporters and skeptics alike.

Human Rights

Author : Robert McCorquodale
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights written by Robert McCorquodale and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of human rights are important, as they can be a means to challenging entrenched and oppressive power. These key essays take a philosophical approach to human rights, questioning dominant theories and offering different perspectives on their application.

Human Rights and Democracy

Author : Eva Erman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351929593
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Democracy written by Eva Erman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is a book within the tradition of deliberative democracy, although it focuses on global institutions and human rights rather than nation-state or federalist democracy. Eva Erman problematizes the absence of political rights in the global human rights discourse from a deliberative standpoint. Starting out from and at the same time criticizing Habermas' discourse theory of law and democracy, she makes a significant contribution to a discourse theory of human rights and applies it to a global rights institution, the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights. This is an innovative study that offers tools for democratizing existing global political institutions, and is therefore suitable for philosophers, political theorists, scholars of human rights and those interested in democracy.

Human Dignity and Human Rights

Author : Pablo Gilabert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198827229
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Human Dignity and Human Rights written by Pablo Gilabert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is human dignity, why is it important, and what is its relationship to human rights? This book offers a sophisticated and comprehensive defence of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of human rights. First, it clarifies the network of concepts associated with dignity. Paramount within this network is a core notion of human dignity as an inherent, non-instrumental, egalitarian, and high-priority normative status of human persons. People have this status in virtue of their valuable human capacities rather than as a result of their national origin and other conventional features. Second, it shows how human dignity gives rise to an inspiring ideal of solidaristic empowerment, which calls us to support people's pursuit of a flourishing life by affirming both negative duties not to block or destroy, and positive duties to protect and facilitate, the development and exercise of the valuable capacities at the basis of their dignity. The most urgent of these duties are correlative to human rights. Third, this book illustrates how the proposed dignitarian approach allows us to articulate the content, justification, and feasible implementation of specific human rights, including contested ones, such as the rights to democratic political participation and to decent labour conditions. Finally, this book's dignitarian approach helps illuminate the arc of humanist justice, identifying both the difference and the continuity between the basic requirements of human rights and more expansive requirements of social justice such as those defended by liberal egalitarians and democratic socialists. Human dignity is indeed the moral heart of human rights. Understanding it enables us to defend human rights as the urgent ethical and political project that puts humanity first.

Framing the Net

Author : Rikke Frank Jorgensen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782540806
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Framing the Net written by Rikke Frank Jorgensen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rikke Frank Jrgensen has given us a thoughtful and competent contribution to a debate of increasing global importance. Her theoretical analysis and practical case-study stimulate critical reflection on how we should connect the primary moral domain of our time human rights with the primary infrastructure for global communication, the Internet. This book is a must read for all who engage with the search for meaningful and practical normative directions for communications in the 21st century. Cees J. Hamelink, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Understanding the Internet is key to protecting human rights in the future. In Framing the Net, Rikke Frank Jrgensen shows how this can be done. Deconstructing four key metaphors the Internet as infrastructure, public sphere, medium and culture she shows where the challenges to human rights protection online lie and how to confront them. Importantly, she develops clear policy proposals for national and international Internet policy-makers, all based on human rights. Her book is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of human rights on the Internet: and that should be everyone. Wolfgang Benedek, University of Graz, Austria Jrgensens examination of whether Internet governance can be better aligned with the rights and freedoms enshrined in human rights law and standards of compliance should be read by everyone in the academic, policy and legal practitioner communities. From womens use of ICTs in Uganda to Wikipedia in Germany, information society developments make it imperative that scholars and practitioners understand why it matters how the issues are framed. This book successfully analyses a decade or more of debate in this field in an engaging and very illuminating way. Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK This important book examines how human rights are being applied in the digital era. The focus on internet freedoms and internet rights has risen considerably in recent years, and in July 2012 the first resolution on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet was adopted by the U.N. Human Rights Council. This timely book suggests four framings to examine human rights challenges in an internet era: the Internet as Infrastructure, the Internet as Public Sphere, the Internet as Medium and the Internet as Culture. These propositions, and the questions that arise from them, are considered in the broad context of the way human rights are translated and applied in the information society, both in academic research and the international communitys policy discourse. The author points to the role of private actors vis-^-vis human rights as one of the most crucial and cross-cutting themes that needs to be addressed in order to advance human rights protection on the internet. Combining research themes that are often dealt with separately, this book will appeal to civil society organizations, journalists, and policy makers in the field of internet and communication policy making. The books overview of internet-related academic discourse combined with human rights-based policy analysis will be useful for scholars, students, and practitioners working within these fields.

Human Rights in the International Public Sphere

Author : William Over
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in the International Public Sphere written by William Over and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-08-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridges the gap between human rights as discourse in the areas of communications, cultural, regional, and international studies.