The Social Practice of Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9781137503763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 235 str.

Joel R. Pruce

Opis

The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space between. In capturing this cutting edge research program, the volume proposes a perspective that motivates critical self-reflection of the strategies that drive communities dedicated to the advocacy and implementation of human rights.

Spis treści

1. The Practice Turn in Human Rights Research

Joel R. Pruce

Part I: Constructive Critique

2. Rethinking Activism: Social Movements and the State over the Longue Durée

Alex de Waal

3. How to Ask People for Change: Examining Peoples’ Willingness to Donate to Human Rights Campaigns

Kyla McEntire, Michele Leiby, and Matthew Krain

4. Documentarian, Witness, and Organizer: Exploring Celebrity Roles in Human Rights Media Advocacy

Alexandra Cosima Budabin

Part II: Grassroots Sites of Practice

5. The Human Right to Water and Advocacy for Urban Water Supply: After the Privatization Struggles

Paul Nelson

6. Localizing the Global/Globalizing the Local: Reconciling Botho and Human Rights in Botswana

Kristi Heather Kenyon

7. Uneven Ground: Asymmetries of Power in Human Rights Advocacy in Mexico

Barbara A. Frey

Part III: Institutional Sites of Practice

8. The UN Security Council and the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights

Carrie Booth Walling

9. The Social Practice of Securitizing Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: 1325 Fifteen Years On

Natalie Florea Hudson

10. Constructing a Dialogue on Human Dignity: The Role for Global Institutions

Mark P. Lagon and Anthony Clark Arend

O autorze

Joel R. Pruce is Assistant Professor in Human Rights Studies at the University of Dayton, USA. He holds a PhD from the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies, USA. Joel's research within the area of human rights is informed by critical theory and focuses on transnational advocacy, visual media, and popular culture.