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Human rights : critical concepts in political science
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- Creator
- edited by Richard Falk, Hilal Elver and Lisa Hajjar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 5 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415312479, 0415312477, 9780415312486, 0415312485, 9780415312493, 0415312493, 9780415312509, 0415312507, 9780415312516, 0415312515, 9780415312523, 0415312523
- OCLC
- ocn229431667
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Vol. I. Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters -- Human rights / Burns H. Weston -- A half century of human rights : geopolitics and values / Richard A. Falk -- The social construction of international human rights / Jack Donnelly -- Three tyrannies / Ken Booth -- A world consensus on human rights? / Charles Taylor -- Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality / Richard Rorty -- Human rights - a movement in search of a theory / Rajni Kothari -- Is the notion of human rights a Western concept? / R. Panikkar -- Human rights and Western dominance / Ashis Nandy -- Savages, victims, and saviors : the metaphor of human rights / Makau Mutua -- Relativism and the search for human rights / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Cultural relativism revisited : through a state prism / Adamantia Pollis -- State responsibility under international human rights law to change religious and customary laws / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʻim -- Toward an intercivilizational approach to human rights / Onuma Yasuaki -- Towards holistic human rights / Chandra Muzaffar -- From human rights to the right to be human : some heresies / Upendra Baxi -- Culture is destiny : a conversation with Lee Kuan Yew / Fareed Zakaria -- Human rights and Asian values / Amartya Sen -- Globalization and human rights / Robert McCorquodale with Richard Fairbrother
- Vol. II. Reflections on the future of economic, social, and cultural rights / Yozo Yokota -- The drama of human rights in a turbulent, globalized world / James N. Rosenau -- Rule of law in security, development and human rights : international discourses, institutional responses / Balakrishnan Rajagopal -- Rights, social justice, and globalization in East Asia / Yash Ghai -- Northern domination of the global economy and some human rights implications / Martin Khor -- Interpreting the interaction of global markets and human rights / Richard Falk -- Globalizing human rights : the work of transnational human rights NGOs in the 1990s / Jackie Smith and Ron Pagnucco with George A. Lopez -- Law, democracy and human rights / Upendra Baxi -- The emerging right to democratic governance / Thomas M. Franck - Sovereign bodies, sovereign states and the problem of torture / Lisa Hajjar -- Security rights, subsistence rights, and liberties : a theoretical survey of the empirical landscape / Wesley T. Milner, Steven C. Poe and David Leblang -- Economic, social and cultural rights as human rights / Asbjørn Eide -- The case for collective human rights : the reality of group suffering / William F. Felice -- Basic human needs / Bruce E. Moon -- What are "women's international human rights"? / Hilary Charlesworth -- Addressing global poverty, pollution and human rights / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson and Angel O. Torres -- New mechanisms : water as a fundamental human right / Hilal Elver -- Remembering the country of their birth : indigenous peoples and territoriality / Maivân Clech Lâm
- Vol. III. Human rights : a descending spiral / Richard Falk -- Human rights, the laws of war, and terrorism / Michael Ignatieff -- Chaos as utopia : international criminal prosecutions as a challenge to state power / Lisa Hajjar -- The future of universal jurisdiction in the new architecture of transnational justice / Diane F. Orentlicher -- The Princeton Principles on Universal Jurisdiction -- Beyond impunity : can international criminal justice prevent future atrocities? / Payam Akhavan -- Universal jurisdiction or the rule of law? / Paul W. Kahn -- State crimes of previous regimes : knowledge, accountability, and the policing of the past / Stanley Cohen -- The politics of memory : the human rights movement and the construction of democracy in Argentina / Elizabeth Jelin -- Lynchings and the democratization of terror in postwar Guatemala : implications for human rights / Angelina Snodgrass Godoy -- Egregious crimes against humanity : some reflections in August 2003 / Sally Falk Moore -- Stopping genocide and securing "justice" : learning by doing - international justice, war crimes, and terrorism : the U.S. record / Samantha Power -- Legal responses to genocide in Rwanda / Alison Des Forges and Timothy Longman -- Darfur and the genocide debate / Scott Straus -- Humanitarian intervention : imperatives and problematics / Richard Falk -- Humanitarian intervention before and after 9/11 : legality and legitimacy / Tom J. Farer -- The Responsibility to Protect : report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty -- Changing the rules about rules? Unilateral humanitarian intervention and the future of international law / Michael Byers and Simon Chesterman
- Vol. IV. Citizenship and human rights in an era of globalization / Gershon Shafir -- Constituting political community : globalization, citizenship, and human rights / Ronnie D. Lipschutz -- Citizenship and national identity / Jürgen Habermas -- Saying global civil society with rights / Gideon Baker -- The making of global citizenship / Richard Falk -- Patriotism and cosmopolitanism / Martha C. Nussbaum -- The "other" half of the International Bill of Rights as a postmodern feminist text / Barbara Stark -- Human rights as men's rights / Hilary Charlesworth -- To bellow like a cow : women, ethnicity, and the discourse of rights / Radhika Coomaraswamy -- Religion, state power, and domestic violence in Muslim societies : a framework for comparative analysis / Lisa Hajjar -- Searching for "voices" : feminism, anthropology, and the global debate over female genital operations / Christine J. Walley -- Religious minorities and the secular state : reflections on an Indian impasse / Partha Chatterjee -- The discourse of rights in colonical South Africa : subjectivity, sovereignty, modernity / John Comaroff -- International political economy and economic and social human rights / William F. Felice -- Race and economic and social human rights / William F. Felice -- Striving for self-determination for indigenous peoples / Erica-Irene A. Daes
- Vol. V. UN Charter Provisions (1946) -- Nuremberg Principles (1946) -- Nuremberg Judgment (1947) -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) -- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) -- European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950) -- International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966) -- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) -- Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) -- Algiers Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples (1976) -- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) -- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) -- Declaration on the Right to Development (1986) -- Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) -- Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (1994) -- European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (1995) -- Barcelona Draft Charter of Emerging Human Rights (2004)