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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790538203321

Titolo

Human rights at the crossroads / / edited by Mark Goodale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-19-937641-7

0-19-025985-X

0-19-970745-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GoodaleMark

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Genocide

Human rights - Political aspects

Human rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Human rights after the Post-Cold War / Mark Goodale -- Human rights and the politics of contestation / Michael Goodhart -- Why act towards one another "in a spirit of brotherhood"? : the grounds of human rights / Michael J. Perry -- An overlapping consensus on human rights and human dignity / Ari Kohen -- The "right to have rights" to the rescue : from human rights to global democracy / Eva Erman -- Prosecuting human rights violations : universal jurisdiction and the crime of torture / Tobias Kelly -- Solidarity and accountability : rethinking citizenship and human rights / Karen Ann Faulk -- Whose vernacular? : translating human rights in local contexts / Daniel M. Goldstein -- Sacred graves and human rights / Adam Rosenblatt -- Human rights monitoring and the question of indicators / Sally Engle Merry -- The paradox of perpetration : a view from the Cambodian genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton -- "Why we care" : constructing solidarity / Alison Brysk -- Historical amnesia, genocide, and the rejection of universal human rights / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann -- The law's legal anthropology / Ronald Niezen -- Cutting human rights down to size / Harri Englund -- Acceptable uses of people / Pheng Cheah.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a dramatic expansion in



both the international human rights system and the transnational networks of activists, development organizations, and monitoring agencies that partially reinforce it. Yet despite or perhaps because of this explosive growth, the multiple statuses of human rights remain as unsettled as ever. Human Rights at the Crossroads brings together preeminent and emerging voices within human rights studies to think creatively about problems beyond their own disciplines, and to critically respond to what appear to be intractable problems