Interdisciplinary approaches to human rights : history, politics, practice / edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chowdhury, Elora Halim, editor.

Srikanth, Rajini, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice is an edited collection that brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines. Within the academic sphere, this book will garner interest from scholars who are invested in human rights as a field of study, as well as those who research, and are engaged in, the praxis of human rights. Referring to the historical and cross-cultural study of human rights, the volume engages with disciplinary debates in political philosophy, gender and women's studies, Global South/Third World studies, international relations, psychology, and anthropology. At the same time, the authors employ diverse methodologies including oral history, theoretical and discourse analysis, ethnography, and literary and cinema studies. Within the field of human rights studies, this book attends to the critical academic gap on interdisciplinary and praxis-based approaches to the field, as opposed to a predominantly legalistic focus, drawing from case studies from a wide range of contexts in the Global South, including Bangladesh, Colombia, Haiti, India, Mexico, Palestine, and Sudan, as well as from Australia and the United States in the Global North. For students who will go on to become researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and activists, this collection of essays will demonstrate the multifaceted landscape of human rights and the multiple forces (philosophical, political, cultural, economic, historical) that affect it.

Contents:

Imaginary and real strangers : constructing and reconstructing the human in human rights discourse and instruments / Mickaella Perina

Rise of the global human rights regime : challenging power with humanity / Darren Kew, Malcolm Russell-Einhorn, and Adriana Rincon Villegas

Between nothingness and infinity : settlement and anti-blackness as the overdetermination of human rights / Andrés Fabian Henao-Castro

Human rights, Latin America, and left internationalism during the Cold War / Steve Striffler

Women, gender, and human rights : the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women / Nada Mustafa Ali

The US-Mexico border and human rights / Luis Jimenez

Unintended consequences in the postcolonies : struggling South Africans experiencing rights discourse as disempowering / Sindiso Mnisi Weeks

The mysterious disappearance of human rights in the 2030 development agenda / Gillian Macnaughton

Addressing General Recommendation No. 35 from an intersectional perspective on violence, gender and disability in Mexico / Ana Maria Sanchez Rodríguez

Global lgbtq politics and human rights / Jamie Hagen

Refugee camps and the (educational) rights of the child / Rajini Srikanth

Persistent voices : a history of indigenous people and human rights in Australia, 1950s-2000s / Maria John

So you want to work in human rights? / Jean-Philippe Belleau

Migrant workers in the Gulf : theoretical and human rights dilemmas / Amani El Jack

Ethical reckoning : theorizing gender, vulnerability and agency in Bangladesh Muktijuddho film / Elora Halim Chowdhury

Right now in no place with strangers : Eudora Welty's queer love / Avak Hasratian

On the human right to peace in times of contemporary colonial power / Adriana Rincon

Beyond dignity : a case study of the mis/use of human rights discourse in development campaigns / Chris Bobel

Teaching health and human rights in a psychology capstone : cultivating connections between rights, personal wellness and social justice / Ester Shapiro, Fernando Andino Valdez, Yasmin Bailey, Grace Furtado, Diana Lamothe, Kosar Mohammad, Mardia Pierre and Nick Wood.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-351-05843-6

1-351-05842-8

1-351-05841-X

9781351058438

OCLC:

1061148178