03190oam 2200637I 450 991081723460332120240131150919.00-203-52582-51-299-48086-11-134-12110-510.4324/9780203525821 (CKB)2550000001020272(EBL)1172884(OCoLC)841206485(SSID)ssj0000873573(PQKBManifestationID)11439508(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873573(PQKBWorkID)10866204(PQKB)11181999(MiAaPQ)EBC1172884(Au-PeEL)EBL1172884(CaPaEBR)ebr10689997(CaONFJC)MIL479336(FINmELB)ELB131990(EXLCZ)99255000000102027220180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHuman rights, power and civic action comparative analyses of struggles for rights in developing societies /edited by Bard A. Andreassen and Gordon CrawfordMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (276 p.)Routledge research in human rights ;5Description based upon print version of record.1-138-83045-3 0-415-66903-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Human rights, power and civic action: theoretical considerations; 2 Rights claiming and rights making in Zimbabwe: a study of three human rights NGOs; 3 Kenya: civic action from confrontation to collaboration?; 4 Ghana: struggles for rights in a democratizing context; 5 South Africa: from struggle to idealism and back again; 6 China: NGOs and human rights in action; 7 Cambodia: civil society, power and stalled democracy; 8 Power, human rights and civic action: conclusions; IndexHuman Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries. It is argued that the concept of power is a relatively neglected one in the study of rights-based approaches to development, especially the ways in which structures and relations of power can limit human rights advocacy. Therefore this book focuses on how local and national struggles for rights have been constrained by power relations and structural inequalities, as well as the extRoutledge research in human rights ;5.Human rightsDeveloping countriesPower (Social sciences)Developing countriesHuman rightsPower (Social sciences)323.09172/4Andreassen Bard-Anders1624450Crawford Gordon1952-496193MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817234603321Human rights, power and civic action3959427UNINA