Human rights as battlefields : changing practices and contestations /: changing practices and contestations. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, Sylvie Paquerot.
• Editors: Blouin Genest, Gabriel, 1983-; Doran, Marie-Christine; Paquerot, Sylvie
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Becoming Human Rights Subjects Through New PracticesGabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie PaquerotPart I -The Changing Nature of Human Rights and Their Political Boundaries: New Definitions, Longstanding Debates2.Human Rights As Battlefields: Power Relations, Translations and Transformations – A Theoretical FrameworkGabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot3.The Gender of Human Rights: The French Debate Over 'les Droits de l'Homme'Charles Bosvieux-Onyekwelu4.The Right to Water: The Political Function of Human Rights as an Expression of the Contradictions in GlobalizationSylvie Paquerot5.Politics of Neutrality, Human Rights and Armed Struggles: The Turkey ExampleOzan KamilogluPart II -Overcoming the Frontiers of Discrimination and Structural Violence: Intersectional Struggles of Human Rights From Below and Transformations of Political Space6.Child Prisoners, Human Rights and Human Rights Activism: Beyond 'Emergency' and 'Exceptionality' - An Australian Case StudyJudith Bessant and Rob Watts7.Who is a Child? The Politics of Human Rights, the Convention on the Right of the Child (CRC), and Child Marriage in NigeriaOlabanji Akinola8.Forcibly Sterilized: Peru's Indigenous Women and the Battle for RightsÑusta Carranza Ko9.Politicization of Rights-based Development and Marginalization of Human Rights from Below: The Case of Maternal Health Rights in IndiaSurma DasPart III:Social Contestation and the Broadening of Human Rights' Meanings10.Indigenous Peoples in Chile: Contesting Violence, Building New Meanings for Rights and DemocracyMarie-Christine Doran11.Improving HIV/AIDS Drugs Access: A Genealogy of the Human Right to Health From BelowGabriel Blouin-Genest and Mikey Erb12.Internet Access as Human Right: A Dystopian Critique from the Occupied Palestinian TerritoryFabio Cristiano13.Conclusion: Changing Human Right Practices and the Battlefields of World PoliticsGabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 323.01; Human rights -- Philosophy; Human rights -- Political aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319917702
• Related ISBNs: 9783319917696
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