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UNINA9910788947203321 |
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Socio-economic rights in South Africa : symbols or substance? / / edited by Malcolm Langford [and three others] [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014 |
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1-139-88887-0 |
1-107-24136-7 |
1-107-25095-1 |
1-107-25012-9 |
1-139-10859-X |
1-107-24763-2 |
1-107-24846-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 472 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Human rights - South Africa |
Civil rights - South Africa |
Social justice - South Africa |
Civil society - South Africa |
Sociological jurisprudence |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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; Introduction: Civil society and socio-economic rights / Malcolm Langford -- Constitutional jurisprudence : the first and second waves / Stuart Wilson and Jackie Dugard -- Socio-economic rights beyond the public-private law divide / Sandra Liebenberg -- Post-apartheid social movements and legal mobilisation / Tshepo Madlingozi -- Political power : social pacts, human rights, and the development agenda / Adam Habib -- Rural land tenure : the potential and limits of rights-based approaches / Ben Cousins and Ruth Hall -- Housing rights litigation : Grootboom and beyond / Malcolm Langford -- Health rights : politics, places, and the need for "sites for rights" / Peris Jones and Nyasha Chingore -- Social security rights : campaigns and courts / Beth Goldblatt and Solange Rosa -- Urban basic services : rights, |
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reality, and resistance / Jackie Dugard -- Realising environmental rights : civic action, leverage, and litigation / Rachel Wynberg and David Fig -- Access to information and socio-economic rights : a theory of change in practice / Kristina Bentley and Richard Calland -- Gender and socio-economic rights : the case of gender-based violence and health / Liesl Gerntholtz and Jennifer MacLeod -- Migrants and mobilisation around socio-economic rights / Tara Polzer Ngwato and Zaheera Jinnah -- ; Concluding perspectives / Malcolm Langford, Jackie Dugard, Tshepo Madlingozi, and Ben Cousins. |
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The embrace of socio-economic rights in South Africa has featured prominently in scholarship on constitution making, legal jurisprudence and social mobilisation. But the development has attracted critics who claim that this turn to rights has not generated social transformation in practice. This book sets out to assess one part of the puzzle and asks what has been the role and impact of socio-economic strategies used by civil society actors. Focusing on a range of socio-economic rights and national trends in law and political economy, the book's authors show how socio-economic rights have influenced the development of civil society discourse and action. The evidence suggests that some strategies have achieved material and political impact but this is conditional on the nature of the claim, degree of mobilisation and alliance building, and underlying constraints. |
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UNINA9910136124803321 |
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Autore |
Lachance Daniel |
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Executing Freedom : The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States / / Daniel LaChance |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (275 pages) |
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Capital punishment - United States |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. When Bundy Buckles Up -- Chapter 1. "Inside Your Daddy's House": Capital Punishment and Creeping Nihilism in the Atomic Age -- Chapter 2. "The Respect Which Is Due Them as Men": The Rise of Retribution in a Polarizing Nation -- Chapter 3. Fixed Risks and Free Souls: Judging and Executing Capital Defendants after Gregg v. Georgia -- Chapter 4. Shock Therapy: The Rehabilitation of Capital Punishment -- Chapter 5. "A Country Worthy of Heroes": The Old West and the New American Death Penalty -- Chapter 6. Father Knows Best: Capital Punishment as a Family Value -- Epilogue. Disabling Freedom -- Notes -- Index |
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In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death? That question is at the heart of Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide-ranging examination of the place of the death penalty in American culture and how it has changed over the years. Drawing on an array of sources, including congressional hearings and campaign speeches, true crime classics like In Cold Blood, and films like Dead Man Walking, Daniel LaChance shows how attitudes toward the death penalty have reflected broader shifts in Americans' thinking about the relationship between the individual and |
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the state. Emerging from the height of 1970s disillusion, the simplicity and moral power of the death penalty became a potent symbol for many Americans of what government could do-and LaChance argues, fascinatingly, that it's the very failure of capital punishment to live up to that mythology that could prove its eventual undoing in the United States. |
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