Global Urban Justice: The Rise of Human Rights Cities

Oomen, Barbara (Editor)/ Davis, Martha F. (Editor)/ Grigolo, Michele (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1107147018 / ISBN 13: 9781107147010

Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, 2016

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350 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global Urban Justice: The Rise of Human Rights Cities
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107147018
• ISBN 13: 9781107147010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.65 kilograms

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Synopsis

Cities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban actors and international organizations, to enable the 'translation' of the abstract language of human rights to the local level, and to develop new practices designed to bring about global urban justice. This book brings together academics and practitioners at the forefront of human rights cities and the 'right to the city' movement to critically discuss their history and also the potential that human rights cities hold for global urban justice.

About the Authors

Barbara Oomen holds a Chair in the Sociology of Rights at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is also Dean of University College Roosevelt, a liberal arts and sciences college in Middelburg.

Martha F. Davis is a professor at the School of Law, Northeastern University, Boston, where she also serves as co-director of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and as faculty director of the NuLawLab.

Michele Grigolo is a lecturer in sociology at Nottingham Trent University. He is co-convenor of the Sociology of Rights Study Group of the British Sociological Association.