Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of local settings, often differently from those imagined by human rights law itself. The case studies reveal the contradictions and ambiguities of human rights approaches to various forms of violence. They show that this openness is not a failure of universal human rights as a coherent legal or ethical framework but an essential element in the development of living and organic ideas of human rights in context. Studying human rights in practice means examining the channels of communication and institutional structures that mediate between global ideas and local situations. Suitable for use on inter-disciplinary courses globally.
| ISBN: | 9780521683784 |
| Publication date: | 26th July 2007 |
| Author: | Mark George Mason University, Virginia Goodale |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 398 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Genres: |
Public international law: human rights Human rights, civil rights |
Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of local settings, often differently from those imagined by human rights law itself. The case studies reveal the contradictions and ambiguities of human rights approaches to various forms of violence. They show that this openness is not a failure of universal human rights as a coherent legal or ethical framework but an essential element in the development of living and organic ideas of human rights in context. Studying human rights in practice means examining the channels of communication and institutional structures that mediate between global ideas and local situations. Suitable for use on inter-disciplinary courses globally.
The Practice of Human Rights features in the following genres: Public international law: human rights, Human rights, civil rights
The Practice of Human Rights is available in Paperback
The Practice of Human Rights was written by Mark George Mason University, Virginia Goodale and published by Cambridge University Press
The Practice of Human Rights has 398 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series
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