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The human rights paradox : universality and its discontents /

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Stern, Steve J., 1951- (Éditeur intellectuel), Straus, Scott, 1970- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
Collection:Critical human rights.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction. Embracing paradox: human rights in a global age / Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus
  • Part I. Who makes human rights?
  • Human rights history from the ground up: the case of East Timor / Geoff Robinson
  • Rights on display: museums and human rights claims / Bridget Conley-Zilkic
  • Civilian agency in times of crisis: lessons from Burundi / Meghan Foster Lynch
  • Part II. Interrogating classic concepts
  • Consulting survivors: evidence from Cambodia, northern Uganda, and other countries affected by mass violence / Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham
  • "Memoria, verdad y justicia": the terrain of post-dictatorship social reconstruction and the struggle for human rights in Argentina / Noa Vaisman
  • Rethinking transitional justice: reflections on the paradoxes of accountability efforts in Peru / Jo-Marie Burt
  • Part III. New horizons
  • The aporias of new technologies for human rights activism / Fuyuki Kurasawa
  • The human right to water in rural India: promises and challenges / Philippe Cullet
  • A very promising species: from Hobbes to the human right to water / Richard P. Hiskes.