Human Rights on the Edge
eBook - ePub

Human Rights on the Edge

The Future of International Human Rights Law and Practice

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Human Rights on the Edge

The Future of International Human Rights Law and Practice

About this book

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human rights law and practice.

Many Western scholars are increasingly pessimistic about the future of international human rights law. However, the contributions to this volume demonstrate that far from collapsing in the face of duress, the concept of human rights has endured despite contractions and the spectre of co-option and manipulation by the powerful. In addition, law is a malleable tool that is deployed in novel ways to promote human rights. The book illustrates that the power of human rights lies not in their essentialized transcendence of time, culture, and context but in their enduring promise that a more just world can emerge from sustained and creative struggle through, against, and at the margins of states, law, and institutions. The key questions to emerge are not whether human rights law and practice will survive, but rather what are the forces that sustain, revitalize, and transform them? And what are human rights in the process of becoming?

This book will be of immense interest to those studying and researching across Politics, Human Rights, Gender and Law. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights.

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Yes, you can access Human Rights on the Edge by Heather Smith-Cannoy, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Heather Smith-Cannoy,Tricia Redeker Hepner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Foreword—The future of human rights: A research agenda
  9. Introduction—Human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice
  10. 1 NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses
  11. 2 New frontiers in international human rights: Actionable nonactionables and the (non)performance of perpetual becoming
  12. 3 Epistemes of human rights in Kashmir: Paradoxes of universality and particularity
  13. 4 “Legal exhaustion” and the crisis of human rights: Tracing legal mobilization against sexual violence and torture of Kurdish women in state custody in Turkey since the 1990s
  14. 5 The boundaries of religion in international human rights law
  15. 6 Disentangling gendered peace: Observing gendered peace in policy
  16. 7 The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage
  17. Index