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Embattled visions : human rights since 1990 / edited by Jan Eckel and Daniel Stahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Schriftenreihe Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert
- Schriftenreihe Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert ; v.9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Philosophy.
- Human rights.
- Philosophy.
- Human rights--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Göttingen, Germany : Wallstein Verlag, [2022]
- Summary:
- Die komplexen Wandlungen der Menschenrechte in der jüngsten Zeitgeschichte.Nach 1990 gewannen Menschenrechte national wie international ein wohl vorher nie erreichtes Gewicht. Immer mehr Akteure begriffen gesellschaftliche Probleme als Menschenrechtsfragen. Der Universalanspruch erfuhr weltweite Zustimmung und beförderte eine Vielzahl neuer interventionistischer Praktiken über nationalstaatliche Grenzen hinweg. Nicht zuletzt machten zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Disziplinen Menschenrechte, in einer vielschichtigen Wechselwirkung mit den gleichzeitigen politischen Veränderungen, zum Gegenstand der Forschung. Die Phase zukunftsgewisser Aufbrüche endete jedoch bereits vor der Jahrhundertwende. Zugleich sah sich die Idee universal gültiger Rechte heftigen Anfechtungen und Gegenentwürfen ausgesetzt.Dieser Band will eine neue empirische Grundlage für das Nachdenken über die jüngste Menschenrechtsgeschichte legen, indem zentrale Entwicklungen der letzten dreißig Jahre beleuchtet werden. Dabei bewegen sich die Beiträge über dichotomische Deutungsangebote von einerseits Triumph und Erfolg, andererseits Scheitern und Niedergang hinaus und schärfen den Blick für komplexe Wandlungsprozesse und gegenläufige Entwicklungen.Der Band erscheint vollständig in englischer Sprache._____The complex trajectory of human rights in the history of the past three decades.The 1990s saw an extraordinary surge in the significance that various actors attributed to the concept of human rights. A growing number of activists and politicians began framing their concerns as human rights issues. The universal claim of human rights received unprecedented support and spurred new interventionist practices across national borders. Numerous academic disciplines made human rights a subject of research, both reflecting on and influencing the emerging human rights policies. Yet the moment of enthusiastic new departures waned even before the advent of the new century. At the same time - and often as a direct consequence of its new prominence - critics opposed the idea of universal rights with an unprecedented fierceness. This volume breaks new ground in examining important developments that have unfolded in human rights history over the past thirty years. In situating these events, the volume looks beyond dichotomous interpretations of either triumph and success or failure and decline, sharpening our view of complexities and contradictions.The volume is published entirely in English.
- Contents:
- Umschlag
- Titel
- Impressum
- Contents
- Preface
- Jan Eckel: Human Rights and World Order(s). On the Prehistory of Our Present
- I. Expansion
- Roland Burke: »To Sound Fine and Mean Nothing«? The World Human Rights Conference 1993
- Daniel Stahl: Adapting Human Rights to Democracy. Chilean Society and the Legacies of State Violence
- Knud Andresen: An Agent of Change? Human Rights and Business in the New South Africa
- Paul van Trigt: Belated Integration. Disability in International Human Rights Law
- II. Interventions
- Alexa Stiller: The Genesis of the Human Rights-Based International Criminal Justice System. The Hidden Significance of the First Iraq War
- Barbara Keys and Amy Hodgson: Human Rights Watch Takes on China. Maintaining the Primacy of Civil and Political Rights, 1991-1996
- Mikael Rask Madsen: Territorial and Normative Expansions. The European Court of Human Rights in Post-Cold War Europe
- III. Contestations
- Katrin Kinzelbach: »Asian Values« versus »Western Values«. A False Dichotomy
- Robert Horvath: Russia's Reversal on Human Rights. Nationalists and the Putin Regime's Rejection of International Norms
- Averell Schmidt: Torture during the War on Terror. A Story of Norm Contestation and Resistance
- IV. Scholarship
- Heike Krieger: Scholarly Activism on the Rise? German Human Rights Discourses after the End of the Cold War
- Annette Weinke: Transitional Justice and Historiography. An Uneasy Relationship
- Kathryn Sikkink: »Political Science Did Not Provide Us with the Insights We Needed.« An Interview
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Index of Persons.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Eckel, Jan Embattled Visions
- ISBN:
- 9783835348417
- 3835348418
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