LEADER 03190oam 2200637I 450 001 9910817234603321 005 20240131150919.0 010 $a0-203-52582-5 010 $a1-299-48086-1 010 $a1-134-12110-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203525821 035 $a(CKB)2550000001020272 035 $a(EBL)1172884 035 $a(OCoLC)841206485 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000873573 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11439508 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873573 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10866204 035 $a(PQKB)11181999 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1172884 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1172884 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10689997 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL479336 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB131990 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001020272 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHuman rights, power and civic action $ecomparative analyses of struggles for rights in developing societies /$fedited by Bard A. Andreassen and Gordon Crawford 210 1$aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in human rights ;$v5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-83045-3 311 $a0-415-66903-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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; Index 330 $aHuman Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries. It is argued that the concept of power is a relatively neglected one in the study of rights-based approaches to development, especially the ways in which structures and relations of power can limit human rights advocacy. Therefore this book focuses on how local and national struggles for rights have been constrained by power relations and structural inequalities, as well as the ext 410 0$aRoutledge research in human rights ;$v5. 606 $aHuman rights$zDeveloping countries 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zDeveloping countries 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 676 $a323.09172/4 701 $aAndreassen$b Bard-Anders$01624450 701 $aCrawford$b Gordon$f1952-$0496193 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817234603321 996 $aHuman rights, power and civic action$93959427 997 $aUNINA