Interpreting human rights
Subtitle: social science perspectives
By: edited by Rhiannon Morgan and Bryan S. Turner.
Contributors: Morga, Rhiannon.; Turner, Bryan S.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780415486156; 9780203880531
Subjects: Human rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: human rights research and the social sciences / Rhiannon Morgan; title: Political science and human rights / Todd Landman; title: The right to health / Michael Freeman; title: Indigenous peoples' rights: anthropology and the right to culture / Colin Samson; title: Democratic human rights / Kate Nash; title: What does it mean to take the sociology of human rights seriously? / Anthony Woodiwiss; title: Forging indigenous rights at the United Nations: a social constructionist account / Rhiannon Morgan; title: The new humanism: beyond modernity and postmodernity / Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada; title: Corporations and human rights / Gideon Sjoberg; title: A sociology of citizenship and human rights: does social theory still exist? / Bryan S. Turner; title: Bibliography; title: Index.