Contesting Human Rights: Norms, Institutions and Practice (Elgar Studies in Human Rights) - Hardcover

 
9781788972857: Contesting Human Rights: Norms, Institutions and Practice (Elgar Studies in Human Rights)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1788972856 ISBN 13: 9781788972857
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Human rights are at a crossroads. This book considers how these rights can be reconstructed in challenging times, with changes in the pathways to the realization of human rights and new developments in human rights law and policy, illustrated with case studies from Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

Contesting Human Rights traces the balance between the dynamics of diffusion, resistance and innovation in the field. The book examines a range of issues from the effectiveness of norm-promotion by advocacy campaigns to the backlash facing human rights advocates. The expert contributors suggest that new opportunities at and below the state level, and creative contests of global governance, can help reconstruct human rights in the face of modern challenges. Critical case studies trace new pathways emerging in the United Nations' Universal Periodic Review, regional human rights courts, constitutional incorporation of international norms, and human rights cities.

With its innovative approach to human rights and comprehensive coverage of global, national and regional trends, Contesting Human Rights will be an invaluable tool for scholars and students of human rights, global governance, law and politics. It will also be useful for human rights advocates with a keen interest in the evolution of the human rights landscape.

Contributors include: G. Andreopoulos, C. Apodaca, P.M. Ayoub, A. Brysk, P. Elizalde, A. Feldman, M. Goodhart, C. Hillebrecht, P.C. McMahon, S. Meili, M. Mullinax, A. Murdie, B. Park, W. Sandholtz, M. Stohl

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About the Author

Edited by Alison Brysk, Distinguished Professor, Department of Global Studies and Political Science and Michael Stohl, Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, US

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1788972856
ISBN 13 
9781788972857
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256
Editor
Brysk Alison, Stohl Michael

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