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The rise and fall of human rights : cynicism and politics in occupied Palestine /
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world-its NGOs, activists, and ""victims,"" as well as their politics, training, and discourse-since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of strug...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Stanford studies in human rights.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world-its NGOs, activists, and ""victims,"" as well as their politics, training, and discourse-since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, it has since been professionalized and politicized, transformed into a public relations tool for political legitimization and state-making.In failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an accountable Palestinian government, the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 258 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0804785511 9780804785518 |