Human rights and social movements / Neil Stammers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stammers, Neil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

--Stammers explores the link between social movements and human rights--This book champions social movements as one of the most influential agents that shape our conceptions of human rights.Stammers argues that human rights cannot be properly understood o

Contents:

Introduction

Getting beyond the hall of mirrors

The 'sociality' of natural rights

The lost nineteenth century

The paradox of institutionalisation

New movements? Old wrongs?

Expressive and instrumental dimensions of movement activism

Analyses of globalisation and human rights

Renewing the challenge to power.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783713967

1783713968

9781849644297

1849644292

OCLC:

656846707