Contracting Human Rights: Crisis, Accountability, and Opportunity (Elgar Studies in Human Rights) - Hardcover

 
9781788112321: Contracting Human Rights: Crisis, Accountability, and Opportunity (Elgar Studies in Human Rights)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1788112326 ISBN 13: 9781788112321
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

The securitization that accompanied many national responses after 11 September 2001, along with the shortfalls of neo-liberalism, created waves of opposition to the growth of the human rights regime. By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human Rights analyzes the way forward in an era of many challenges.

Through an examination of both global and local challenges to human rights, including loopholes, backlash, accountability, and new opportunities to move forward, the expert contributors analyze trends across multiple-issue areas. These include; international institutions, humanitarian action, censorship and communications, discrimination, human trafficking, counter-terrorism, corporate social responsibility and civil society and social movements. The topical chapters also provide a comprehensive review of the widening citizenship gaps in human rights coverage for refugees, women’s rights in patriarchal societies, and civil liberties in chronic conflict.

This timely study will be invaluable reading for academics, upper-level undergraduates, and those studying graduate courses relating to international relations, human rights, and global governance.

Contributors include: K. Ainley, G. Andreopolous, C. Apodaca, P. Ayoub, Y. Bei, N. Bennett, K. Caldwell, F. Cherif, M. Etter, J. Faust, S. Ganesh, F. Gomez Isa, A. Jimenez-Bacardi, N. Katona, B. Linder, K. Lukas, J. Planitzer, W. Sandholtz, G. Shafir, C. Stohl, M. Stohl, A. Vestergaard, C. Wright

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About the Author

Edited by Alison Brysk, Distinguished Professor, Department of Global Studies and Political Science and Michael Stohl, Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, US

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1788112326
ISBN 13 
9781788112321
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
320
Editor
Brysk Alison, Stohl Michael

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