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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969874803321

Autore

Woodiwiss Anthony

Titolo

Human rights / / Anthony Woodiwiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

9781134236633

1134236638

9781280150708

128015070X

9780203008591

0203008596

9780203008596

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 174 pages)

Collana

Key ideas

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Human rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Rights and power -- Making rights -- The paradox of human rights -- Towards a sociology of rights -- From rights to liberty in England and the United States -- The comparative sociology of rights regimes -- From liberty to the 'rule of (property) law' in the United States -- Japan, the rule of law and the absence of liberty -- Righting the world? -- The United States and the invention of human rights -- The Warren Court: setting the international human rights agenda -- The United Nations and the internationalisation of American rights discourse -- Making an example of Japan -- The desire for equality and the emergence of a sociology for human rights -- Conclusion: for a new universalism.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory, and working through case studies of Britain, the United States and Japan, Anthony Woodiwiss provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of