Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements

Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short, Matthew Waites

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780415617970
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317985310
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Civil Rights in Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles by new and established authors. The collection includes a range of new work addressing issues such as genocide in relation to indigenous peoples, rights-based approaches in development work, trafficking of children, and children's rights in relation to political struggles for the decriminalisation of same-sex sexual activity in India. It examines contexts ranging from Rwanda and South Korea to Northern Ireland and the city of Barcelona.

The collection as a whole will be of interest to students and academics working in various disciplines such as politics, law and social policy, and to practitioners working on human rights for various governmental and non-governmental organisations, as well as to sociologists seeking to develop understanding of the sociology of human rights.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Sociology and human rights: confrontations, evasions and new engagements
• 2. Cultural genocide and indigenous peoples: a sociological approach
• 3. Who's human? Developing sociological understandings of the rights of women raped in conflict
• 4. Sociology and human rights: what have they got to say about care and dignity?
• 5. Contestations over rights: from establishment to implementation of the National Basic Livelihood Security System in South Korea
• 6. Human rights and cities: the Barcelona Office for Non-Discrimination and its work for migrants
• 7. From ‘rights-based’ to ‘rights-framed’ approaches: a social constructionist view of human rights practice
• 8. Reconstructing Rwanda: balancing human rights and the promotion of national reconciliation
• 9. Global points of ‘vulnerability’: understanding processes of the trafficking of children and young people into, within and out of the UK
• 10. Human rights, sexual orientation and the generation of childhoods: analysing the partial decriminalisation of ‘unnatural offences’ in India
• 11. Loyalty and human rights: liminality and social action in a divided society
• Index