Handbook of human rights / / edited by Thomas Cushman

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (769 p.)
• Disciplina: 323
• Soggetto topico: Human rights; Political science
• Classificazione: PHI021000POL004000SOC015000
• Altri autori: CushmanThomas <1959->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Handbook of Human Rights; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Foundations and critiques; 1 Philosophical foundations of human rights; 2 The metaphysical foundations of natural rights; 3 Kant's theory of human rights; 4 Hate speech, human rights, and G. W. F. Hegel; 5 Hannah Arendt on human rights; 6 Democracy as human rights; 7 Human rights, justice, and pluralism; 8 Human rights and democracy; 9 Cosmopolitanism and human rights; 10 A critique of positive rights; 11 Nonsense on stilts; 12 A communitarian critique of human rights ; PART II New frameworks for understanding human rights13 What are human rights? Four schools of thought; 14 Social suffering and human rights; 15 Human rights as cultural practices; 16 Human rights as status relations: A sociological approach to understanding human rights; 17 Becoming irrelevant: The curious history of anthropology and human rights; 18 Economics and human rights; 19 Rights, reform, and resources: Malthusian refl ections on scarcity and old age; PART III World religious traditions and human rights; 20 Buddhism and human rights; 21 Christianity and human rights ; 22 Confucianism and human rights23 Islamic conceptions of human rights; 24 A non-religious basis for the idea of human rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as overlapping consensus; PART IV Social, economic, group, and collective rights; 25 Group rights: A defense; 26 Economic rights: Past, present, and future; 27 Language rights: The forgotten dimension of human rights; 28 Children's rights; 29 The development of international child law: The defi nition of "the child" and implementation mechanisms; 30 The right to food; 31 The rights of refugees; 32 The rights of the disabled ; 33 Fetal rights34 The human rights of the elderly; 35 Environmental human rights; 36 Climate change and human rights; PART V Critical perspectives on human rights organizations, institutions, and practices; 37 The tension between peace and justice in the age of peace-building; 38 Social responsibility and human rights; 39 The ethics of international human rights non-governmental organizations; 40 International financial institutions and their impacts on human rights: Current and prospective research; 41 Transnational corporations and human rights; 42 Reparations for human rights abuses ; 43 Memory and human rights44 Truth commissions and human rights; 45 The international rights of migrants; 46 The humanitarian-human rights nexus: A global culture perspective; 47 Bystanders to human rights abuses: A psychosocial perspective; 48 The proportionality problem and human rights NGOs; 49 Jewish non-governmental organizations; 50 Have human rights failed humans? The discord between human prosperity and human rights; PART VI Law and human rights; 51 International law and human rights; 52 The prosecution of human rights abuses; 53 International human rights law and the war on terror ; PART VII Narrative and aesthetic dimensions of human rights
• Sommario/riassunto: "In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights provides not only a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also promotes new thinking and frameworks for the study of human rights in the twenty-first century. The Handbook comprises of nearly sixty individual contributions from key figures around the world, which are grouped according to eight key areas of discussion: - foundations and critiques - new frameworks for understanding human rights - world religious traditions and human rights - social, economic, group and collective rights - critical perspectives on human rights organizations, institutions, and practices - law and human rights - narrative and aesthetic dimension of rights - geographies of rights In its presentation and analysis of the traditional core history and topics, critical perspectives, human rights culture, and current practice, this Handbook proves a valuable resource for all students and researchers with an interest in human rights"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Handbook of human rights
• ISBN: 1-134-01907-6; 1-138-01947-X; 1-283-46138-2; 9786613461384; 0-203-88703-4; 1-134-01908-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822540703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge international handbooks.