Human rights reconsidered
By: edited by Mark Goodale
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780195371840
Subjects: Human rights; Political aspects; Genocide
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human rights after the post-Cold War / Mark Goodale; title: Human rights and the politics of contestation / Michael Goodhart; title: Why act towards one another "in a spirit of brotherhood"? : the grounds of human rights / Michael J. Perry; title: An overlapping consensus on human rights and human dignity / Ari Kohen; title: The "right to have rights" to the rescue : from human rights to global democracy / Eva Erman; title: Prosecuting human rights violations : universal jurisdiction and the crime of torture / Tobias Kelly; title: Solidarity and accountability : rethinking citizenship and human rights / Karen Faulk; title: Whose vernacular? : translating human rights in local contexts / Daniel Goldstein; title: Sacred graves and human rights / Adam Rosenblatt; title: Human rights monitoring and the question of indicators / Sally Engle Merry; title: The paradox of perpetration : a view from the Cambodian genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton; title: "Why we care" : constructing solidarity / Alison Brysk; title: Historical amnesia, genocide, and the rejection of universal human rights / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann; title: The law's legal anthropology / Ronald Niezen; title: Cutting human rights down to size / Harri Englund; title: Acceptable uses of people / Pheng Cheah.