The Politics of Human Rights Protection

Jan Knippers Black (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2009
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-4051-4 (ISBN)

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This important work argues that human rights abuse is not necessarily about distant places and peoples, and it is neither incomprehensible nor inevitable. Despite the appearance of consensus about the importance of human rights protection, abuse—with its common core in inequality—is expanding at all levels from the petty to the profound. Designed to inform and inspire, this book also provides the analytical and strategic tools needed for the next generation of activists. Jan Knippers Black offers a fundamental reexamination of the basic terms and concepts, legal and institutional foundations, controversies, cleavages, threats and strategies associated with human rights.

Black's perspective is holistic, stressing the relevance of human rights issues to all human needs and endeavors and requiring multidisciplinary analysis. Chapters analyzing connections among political, economic, ecological, and cultural impacts on social and individual well-being are accompanied by case studies highlighting lessons learned from success or failure. This empowering book seeks to promote an "each for all" commitment, breaking through barriers of ignorance and apathy, denial and despair, so that advocates and activists can work to prevent future atrocities.

Jan Knippers Black is professor in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. For an interview with the author on Women News Network, please click here. To view the author discussing her book on Evening Insight, please click here.

Chapter 1: The Human Rights Perspective and the Need for Impact Assessment
Part I: The Politics of a Human Rights Agenda
Chapter 2: What's in a Name? Deconstructing Human Rights Terms and Concepts
Chapter 3: The Dialectics of Building an International Human Rights Regime
Chapter 4: Human Rights Cleavages and Controversies: The Discourse
Part II: The Right to Eat: Social and Economic Rights
Chapter 5: The Globalization of Vulnerability
Chapter 6: From the Ashes: Argentina's Return from Meltdown
Part III: The Right to Belong: Civil and Political Rights
Chapter 7: Participation and Accountability
Chapter 8: Wayfarers in a Walled-Up World
Chapter 9: Chile's Long Way Home
Part IV: The Right to be Different: Cultural Rights
Chapter 10: The Political Dimensions of Diversity
Chapter 11: Feminism, Democracy, and Self-Determination: The Taiwanese Experience
Part V: The Right to the Commons: Environmental Rights
Chapter 12: The Naked Ape in Nature: Master or Guardian?
Chapter 13: China's Three Gorges: The Dam and the Damned
Part VI: The Right to a Just Peace
Chapter 14: From Sustainable War to Sustainable Peace
Chapter 15: Against All Odds: East Timor's Quest for Independence
Part VII: The Elephant in the Room
Chapter 16: Empire as a State of War
Chapter 17: Terror and the War to End All Rights
Part VIII: Strategic Focus: No Promised Land in Denial Valley
Chapter 18: Cautious Mainstreaming, Constructive Subversion
Conclusion: Playing from Strength
Appendix: Human Rights Impact Assessment: Tips and Tools

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.1.2009
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7425-4051-0 / 0742540510
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-4051-4 / 9780742540514
Zustand	Neuware