After Abu Ghraib : exploring human rights in America and the Middle East / Shadi Mokhtari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mokhtari, Shadi, 1976-

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--United States.

Human rights.

United States.

Human rights--Middle East.

Abu Ghraib Prison.

Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation--United States.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

ix, 252 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration's "War on Terror" torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional West to East flow of human rights mobilizations and discourses), and Middle Eastern attempts to challenge their own leaders' human rights violations in light of American interventions. This book presents snapshots of human rights being appropriated, promoted, claimed, reclaimed, and contested within and between the American and Middle Eastern contexts. The inquiry has three facets: First, it explores intersections between human rights norms and power as they unfold in the era. Second, it lays out the layers of the era's American and Middle Eastern encounter on the human rights plane. Finally, it draws out the era's key lessons for moving the human rights project forward.

Contents:

American imaginings of human rights and the Middle East

The human rights challenge from within

The Middle Eastern gaze on American human rights commitments

American imprints and the Middle East's new human rights landscape

From the ashes of the post-September 11th era : lessons for the human rights project.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521767538

0521767539

OCLC:

262943639