Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival

Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9781040112991
ISBN-13 : 1040112994
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival by : William T. Armaline

Asserting a critical sociological perspective, Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival reveals the contested historical processes through which fundamental human needs are constructed as “rights” under international law, and how those rights are confronted by the ruling relations and crises inherent to contemporary global capitalism and the waning American hegemonic world order. Put simply, the book explores why human rights as a formal legal project has failed to deliver on guaranteeing human survival, let alone universal human dignity. Rather than stopping at critique, the authors propose a specific, materialist intellectual and political agenda for the preservation of collective human survival that can achieve the historically unique notions of common humanity and human emancipation. The authors build on previous work, further developing the sociology of human rights as a distinct field at the intersection of Social Sciences and International Law. They take on several provocative theoretical debates, such as those over connections between racism and capitalism; the existence of a global or “transnational” police state; the control, growth, and exploitation of migrants/migration; and the complex relationship between political repression and various forms of domination. Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival offers critical analysis of contemporary politics and options for students, scholars, organizers, and stakeholders to grapple with some of the most pressing social problems of human history.

Human Rights PRAXIS and the Struggle for Survival

Human Rights PRAXIS and the Struggle for Survival
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1032347309
ISBN-13 : 9781032347301
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Human Rights PRAXIS and the Struggle for Survival by : William T. Armaline

Asserting a critical sociological perspective, Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival reveals the contested historical processes through which fundamental human needs are constructed as "rights" under international law, and how those rights are confronted by the ruling relations and crises inherent to contemporary global capitalism and the waning American hegemonic world order. Put simply, the book explores why human rights as a formal legal project has failed to deliver on guaranteeing human survival, let alone universal human dignity. Rather than stopping at critique, the authors propose a specific, materialist intellectual and political agenda for the preservation of collective human survival that can achieve the historically unique notions of common humanity and human emancipation. The authors build on previous work, further developing the sociology of human rights as a distinct field at the intersection of Social Sciences and International Law. They take on several provocative theoretical debates, such as those over connections between racism and capitalism; the existence of a global or "transnational" police state; the control, growth, and exploitation of migrants/migration; and the complex relationship between political repression and various forms of domination. Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival offers critical analysis of contemporary politics and options for students, scholars, organizers, and stakeholders to grapple with some of the most pressing social problems of human history.

Refocussing Praxis

Refocussing Praxis
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015032390109
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Refocussing Praxis by : Harsh Sethi

Report on a month-long debate on various social problems faced by researchers in Asia.

Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America

Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9781498533270
ISBN-13 : 1498533272
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America by : Marcia Esparza

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes as well as protecting and sheltering targeted victims—including the dead—during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. In light of newly unearthed archival evidence, testimonial memories, and the continued mobilization of human rights groups to preserve Cold War memory, this timely book moves beyond the victim-perpetrator dichotomy and its discursive studies to focus on those whose moral courage and righteous acts were beacons of hope in the midst of extreme violence. Remembering Latin American “righteousness,” a term used in Holocaust literature, is important in recognizing that those who resisted human rights violations and protected victims yesterday are those who often keep the collective memory of that past alive today.

The Human Rights Enterprise

The Human Rights Enterprise
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 9780745688183
ISBN-13 : 0745688187
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis The Human Rights Enterprise by : William T. Armaline

Why do powerful states like the U.S., U.K., China, and Russia repeatedly fail to meet their international legal obligations as defined by human rights instruments? How does global capitalism affect states’ ability to implement human rights, particularly in the context of global recession, state austerity, perpetual war, and environmental crisis? How are political and civil rights undermined as part of moves to impose security and surveillance regimes? This book presents a framework for understanding human rights as a terrain of struggle over power between states, private interests, and organized, “bottom-up” social movements. The authors develop a critical sociology of human rights focusing on the concept of the human rights enterprise: the process through which rights are defined and realized. While states are designated arbiters of human rights according to human rights instruments, they do not exist in a vacuum. Political sociology helps us to understand how global neoliberalism and powerful non-governmental actors (particularly economic actors such as corporations and financial institutions) deeply affect states’ ability and likelihood to enforce human rights standards. This book offers keen insights for understanding rights claims, and the institutionalization of, access to, and restrictions on human rights. It will be invaluable to human rights advocates, and undergraduate and graduate students across the social sciences.

Africa and the New Globalization

Africa and the New Globalization
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9781409498421
ISBN-13 : 1409498425
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Africa and the New Globalization by : Dr George Klay Kieh Jr

Globalization is not a new phenomenon in the international system. However, the various phases of globalization have had divergent scopes, actors, dimensions and dynamics – that is, each of the phases of globalization can be differentiated according to these terms. Against this background, this book focuses on the 'new globalization', a phase that emerged when the Cold War ended and which is, significantly, the most expansive and technologically advanced of all the phases of globalization. The contributors identify and discuss many of the frontier issues in Africa that are being impacted by the dynamics of this new globalization – debt, human rights, development, state sovereignty, the environment, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The volume will hold particular interest for students, scholars and researchers of African and development politics.

Literature and Human Rights

Literature and Human Rights
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9783110368550
ISBN-13 : 3110368552
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Literature and Human Rights by : Ian Ward

The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written as a contribution to this vital debate. Each moreover is written in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, reaching across the myriad constitutive disciplines of law, literature and the humanities in order to present an array of alternative perspectives on the nature and meaning of human rights in the modern world. The taking of human rights seriously, it will be suggested, depends just as much on taking seriously the idea of the human as it does the idea of rights.

The Green Studies Reader

The Green Studies Reader
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0415204070
ISBN-13 : 9780415204071
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Green Studies Reader by : Laurence Coupe

Laurence Coupe brings together a collection of extracts from a wide range of both historical and contemporary ecocritical texts.

Off White

Off White
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 9780415949644
ISBN-13 : 0415949645
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Off White by : Michelle Fine

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Social Praxis

Social Praxis
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000117702542
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Social Praxis by :