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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789371803321

Titolo

The human rights paradox : universality and its discontents / / edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus ; contributors Jo-Marie Burt [and eleven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-299-29973-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Critical Human Rights

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Human rights

Human rights - History

Human rights advocacy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Embracing paradox: human rights in a global age / Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus -- Part I. Who makes human rights? -- Human rights history from the ground up: the case of East Timor / Geoff Robinson -- Rights on display: museums and human rights claims / Bridget Conley-Zilkic -- Civilian agency in times of crisis: lessons from Burundi / Meghan Foster Lynch -- Part II. Interrogating classic concepts -- Consulting survivors: evidence from Cambodia, northern Uganda, and other countries affected by mass violence / Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham -- "Memoria, verdad y justicia": the terrain of post-dictatorship social reconstruction and the struggle for human rights in Argentina / Noa Vaisman -- Rethinking transitional justice: reflections on the paradoxes of accountability efforts in Peru / Jo-Marie Burt -- Part III. New horizons -- The aporias of new technologies for human rights activism / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- The human right to water in rural India: promises and challenges / Philippe Cullet -- A very promising species: from Hobbes to the human right to water / Richard P. Hiskes.