Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia in Latin America

Camilo Pérez Bustillo

ISBN 10: 9004297839 / ISBN 13: 9789004297838

Published by Koninklijke Brill BV Jun 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Human Rights, Hegemony and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and Karla Hernández Mares explores the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights, within the context of cases in contemporary Mexico and Colombia, and their broader implications. The first three chapters provide an introduction to the book¿s overall theoretical framework, which will then be applied to a series of more specific issues (migrant rights and the rights of indigenous peoples) and cases (primarily focused on contexts in Mexico and Colombia, ), which are intended to be illustrative of broader trends in Latin America and globally.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia in Latin America
• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill BV Jun 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004297839
• ISBN 13: 9789004297838
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 155H x 19D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 611 grams

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Synopsis

Human Rights, Hegemony and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and Karla Hernández Mares explores the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights, within the context of cases in contemporary Mexico and Colombia, and their broader implications. The first three chapters provide an introduction to the book´s overall theoretical framework, which will then be applied to a series of more specific issues (migrant rights and the rights of indigenous peoples) and cases (primarily focused on contexts in Mexico and Colombia,), which are intended to be illustrative of broader trends in Latin America and globally.

About the Author

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Juris Doctor (1981, Northeastern University Law School, Boston), Executive Director, Human Rights Center, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton (Ohio); Research Associate, FLACSO–Guatemala; Fellow, Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), University of Bergen (Norway).

Karla Hernández Mares, B.A in International Relations (2005, Instituto Tecnólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey-ITESM, Mexico), candidate Master´s program in Human Rights and Democracy (FLACSO-Mexico City), human rights advocate and professional photographer; researcher, Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Mexico office).