Stones of hope : how African activists reclaim human rights to challenge global poverty / edited by Lucie E. White and Jeremy Perelman ; with a foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa E. Sachs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, Lucie, 1949-

Perelman, Jeremy.

Sachs, Jeffrey.

Sachs, Lisa E.

Series:

Stanford studies in human rights.

Stanford studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights advocacy--Africa--Case studies.

Human rights advocacy.

Social rights--Africa.

Social rights.

Human rights--Africa.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.

Summary:

Stones of Hope shows how African human rights activists have opened new possibilities for justice in the everyday lives of the world's most impoverished peoples.

Contents:

A place to live : resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Felix Morka

Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Duncan Kennedy

Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice : South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood

The evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania : structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich

Freeing Mohammed Zakari : rights as footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga

Stones of hope : experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White

The long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804776431

0804776431

OCLC:

706022838