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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mokhtari, Shadi, 1976- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society.

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abu Ghraib Prison.

Human rights--United States.

Human rights.

Human rights--Middle East.

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

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248) and index.

ISBN:

0-511-69853-4

1-107-19448-2

1-282-30274-4

9786612302749

0-511-58041-X

0-511-58105-X

0-511-58073-8

0-511-57916-0

0-511-57842-3

0-511-57990-X

OCLC:

609843062