Human Rights Transformation in Practice /

Human Rights Transformation in Practice / / ed. by Sally Engle Merry, Tine Destrooper.

Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis. But are human rights really on the verge of disappearing? Human Rights Transformation in Practice argues that it is certainly the case that human rights organizations in many parts of the world are under threat, but that the ideals of justi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Davis, Sara L. M.,
Desmet, Ellen,
Destrooper, Tine,
Goodale, Mark,
MacLean, Ken,
Martínez, Samuel,
Merry, Sally Engle,
Mohamed, Charmain,
Nesiah, Vasuki,
Vandenbogaerde, Arne,
Vandenhole, Wouter,
Waldmüller, Johannes M.,
HerausgeberIn:
Destrooper, Tine,
Merry, Sally Engle,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 2 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction. On Travel, Translation, and Transformation
  • Part I. Initiatives by Formal Human Rights Norm-Setters
  • Chapter 1. The Escher–Human Rights Escalator: Technologies of the Local
  • Chapter 2. Accommodating Local Human Rights Practice at the UN Human Rights Council
  • Chapter 3. Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: The Local, Travel, and Transformation
  • Part II. Interactions Between Social Mobilization and Legal Claim-Making
  • Chapter 4. Lost Through Translation: Political Dialectics of Eco-Social and Collective Rights in Ecuador
  • Chapter 5. Upstreaming or Streamlining? Translating Social Movement Agendas into Legal Claims in Nepal and the Dominican Republic
  • Chapter 6. New Visibilities: Challenging Torture and Impunity in Vietnam
  • Part III. Human Rights Programs and the Proliferation of Nonconfrontational Methods
  • Chapter 7. Rural-Urban Migration and Education in China: Unraveling Responses to Injurious Experiences
  • Chapter 8. Localization “Light”: The Travel and Transformation of Nonempowering Human Rights Norms
  • Chapter 9. Global Rights, Local Risk: Community Advocacy on Right to Health in China
  • Afterword. Our Vernacular Futures
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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