Political economy of human rights : rights, realities and realization / Bas de Gaay Fortman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaay Fortman, Bastiaan de, author.

Series:

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 146.

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The plethora of literature produced over the past decade in response to the perceived failure of the human rights project to deliver results for billions of people living in 'adverse' environments has usually focused on international legal standards and mechanisms, with little regard for the root structural realities that constrain their implementation. Hence, a text that primarily focuses on the major challenge of realisation of human rights in the context of diverse realities is urgently needed. This book, then, provides an analytical as well as inspirational text on human rights from a c

Contents:

Front Cover; Political Economy of Human Rights; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: rights, realities and realisation; Rights unrealised; A crisis in human rights; Political economy of human rights; Two genealogies of human rights; Two "golden" triangles of human dignity; An orchestration of upstream and downstream efforts; A new approach; 1. Rights: the dialectics of power and protection; Power and its limits; The dialectics of law and power; Entitlement systems

Human rights as a laborious element in legal systemsHuman rights strategies; Human rights as a creative approach to law, power and morality; 2. Rights: the dialectics of international norms and national practice; A contextual view on "transitional justice"; The international venture for the realisation of human rights; Human rights in the context of international relations; A critical appraisal; State sovereignty and the separation of powers; Judicial law development; Adventurous judgments; An emerging human rights culture?; 3. Global realities: conflict and confrontation

The United States and the United NationsAmerican exceptionalism; The "War on Terror"; The "sacred realm": domain of polemics and polarisation; American security concerns and the international legal order; United Nations reform; Concluding reflections; 4. Local realities: strife and struggle; Gross human rights violations in an adverse environment; A "stylised" fact; State-society relations; Indicators; The impact of culture and religion; 5. Realisation: the rights of the poor; Development with poverty; Productivism and the poor; Towards rights-based strategies

Implications for the international financial institutionsEconomic justice; 6. Realisation: the rights of collectivities; Of minorities and minarets; Democracy as majority rule; Minority rights: for what purpose?; The minority problematique in a political economy perspective; Protection of cultural freedoms and entitlements through cultural rights; The irony of collective equity; A misconception; "Minority" protection in a juridical/judicial perspective; "Minority" protection in an integrated human dignity perspective; Conclusion: the quest for realisation; Human rights as battleground

The struggle is deepenedThe struggle is widened; The struggle is uplifted; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-70217-2

1-283-43500-4

9786613435002

1-136-70218-0

0-203-81373-1

9780203813737

OCLC:

731646685