Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138482265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 350 str.

Elora Halim Chowdhury; Rajini Srikanth

Opis

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights is an edited collection which brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Human Rights Discourse: Context and History; Chapter 1: Imaginary and Real Strangers: Constructing and Reconstructing the Human in Human Rights Discourse and Instruments; Chapter 2: Rise of the Global Human Rights Regime: Challenging Power with Humanity; Chapter 3: Between Nothingness and Infinity: Settlement and Anti-Blackness as the Overdetermination of Human Rights; Chapter 4: Human Rights, Latin America, and Left Internationalism during the Cold War; Chapter 5: Women, Gender, and Human Rights; Chapter 6: The United States-Mexico Border and Human Rights; Chapter 7: Unintended Consequences in the Postcolonies: When Struggling South Africans Experience Rights Discourse As Disempowering Part II. Critical Areas in Human Rights; Chapter 8: The Mysterious Disappearance of Human Rights in the 2030 Development Agenda; Chapter 9: Addressing General Recommendation No. 35 from an Intersectional Perspective on Violence, Gender and Disability in Mexico; Chapter 10: Global LGBTQ politics and Human Rights; Chapter 11: Refugee Camps and the (Educational) Rights of the Child; Chapter 12: Persistent Voices: A History of Indigenous People and Human Rights in Australia, 1950s-2000s; Part III. Praxis and Human Rights; Chapter 13: So You Want to Work in Human Rights?; Chapter 14: Migrant Workers in the Gulf: Theoretical and Human Rights Dilemmas; Chapter 15: Ethical Reckoning: Theorizing Gender, Vulnerability and Agency in Bangladesh Muktijuddho Film; Chapter 16: Right Now in No Place with Strangers: Eudora Welty’s Queer Love; Chapter 17: On The Human Right to Peace in Times of Contemporary Colonial Power; Chapter 18: Beyond Dignity: A Case Study of the Mis/Use of Human Rights Discourse in Development Campaigns; Chapter 19: Teaching Health and Human Rights in a Psychology Capstone: Cultivating Connections between Rights, Personal Wellness and Social Justice; Appendix