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This book champions social movements as one of the most influential agents that shape our conceptions of human rights. Stammers argues that human rights cannot be properly understood outside of the context of social movement struggles.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stammers, Neil
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York, NY : New York : Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Subjects:
Human rights.
Social movements.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Mouvements sociaux.
social movements.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom.
Human rights
Social movements
Menschenrecht
Soziale Bewegung
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Getting beyond the hall of mirrors
  • The 'sociality' of natural rights
  • The lost nineteenth century
  • The paradox of institutionalisation
  • New movements? Old wrongs?
  • Expressive and instrumental dimensions of movement activism
  • Analyses of globalisation and human rights
  • Renewing the challenge to power.

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