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"Democratic countries are increasingly controlled by economic interests rather than by the rule of law. Charting the protesters and social movements ""illegality"" opposing authority this volume argues that they should be, nevertheless, considered the defenders of law and or...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Westra, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 65.
Subjects:
Protest movements.
Social movements.
Human rights.
Authority.
Contestation.
Mouvements sociaux.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Autorité.
social movements.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Authority
Human rights
Protest movements
Social movements
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. The (il)legality of protest movements. 1. Introduction to the authority of law and social protest
  • 2. The Occupy Wall Street movement: attack in a "lawless" world?
  • 3. Non-governmental organizations and social movements: substance and roles
  • 4. International citizenship under siege
  • 5. The limits of power of INGOs, social movements, and associations, and the authority of law
  • Part 2. Victims of structural violence. 6. Victims of "non-intimate violence" and the law
  • 7. Victims of human rights law and of legal persons: where justice and equal rights do not apply
  • 8. Victims of legal bombardments, drone attacks and other forms of collateralism
  • 9. Responsibility to protect or obligation to prevent: whose responsibility
  • 10. Current changes and concluding thoughts
  • Appendix I: Cases
  • Appendix II: Documents
  • References
  • Index.

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