The human rights paradox
Subtitle: universality and its discontents
By: edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus
Series: Critical human rights; Critical human rights
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780299299743; 9780299299736
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Human rights; History; Human rights advocacy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Embracing paradox: human rights in a global age / Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus; title: Part I. Who makes human rights?; title: Human rights history from the ground up: the case of East Timor / Geoff Robinson; title: Rights on display: museums and human rights claims / Bridget Conley-Zilkic; title: Civilian agency in times of crisis: lessons from Burundi / Meghan Foster Lynch; title: Part II. Interrogating classic concepts; title: Consulting survivors: evidence from Cambodia, northern Uganda, and other countries affected by mass violence / Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham; title: "Memoria, verdad y justicia": the terrain of post-dictatorship social reconstruction and the struggle for human rights in Argentina / Noa Vaisman; title: Rethinking transitional justice: reflections on the paradoxes of accountability efforts in Peru / Jo-Marie Burt; title: Part III. New horizons; title: The aporias of new technologies for human rights activism / Fuyuki Kurasawa; title: The human right to water in rural India: promises and challenges / Philippe Cullet; title: A very promising species: from Hobbes to the human right to water / Richard P. Hiskes.