The human rights paradox : universality and its discontents / edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus.
Material type: TextSeries: Critical human rightsPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (vi, 266 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780299299736
- 0299299732
- 9781306540322
- 1306540321
- Human rights
- Human rights -- History
- Human rights advocacy
- Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) -- Histoire
- Défense des droits de l'homme
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights
- Human rights
- Human rights advocacy
- 323 23
- JC571 .H769684 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Embracing paradox: human rights in a global age / Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus -- Part I. Who makes human rights? -- Human rights history from the ground up: the case of East Timor / Geoff Robinson -- Rights on display: museums and human rights claims / Bridget Conley-Zilkic -- Civilian agency in times of crisis: lessons from Burundi / Meghan Foster Lynch -- Part II. Interrogating classic concepts -- Consulting survivors: evidence from Cambodia, northern Uganda, and other countries affected by mass violence / Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham -- "Memoria, verdad y justicia": the terrain of post-dictatorship social reconstruction and the struggle for human rights in Argentina / Noa Vaisman -- Rethinking transitional justice: reflections on the paradoxes of accountability efforts in Peru / Jo-Marie Burt -- Part III. New horizons -- The aporias of new technologies for human rights activism / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- The human right to water in rural India: promises and challenges / Philippe Cullet -- A very promising species: from Hobbes to the human right to water / Richard P. Hiskes.
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