A Research Agenda for Human Rights. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Stohl, Alison Brysk.
• Other Names: Stohl, Michael, 1947-; Brysk, Alison, 1960-
• Contents: Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Human Rights: Generations of human rights scholarship -- 2 The study of human rights history: A corpus-based linguistic approach to 'human rights' in thenineteenth-century British press -- 3 Humanitarianism: Coping in the void -- 4 'People out of place': Developing a human rights research agenda on internally displaced persons -- 5 International human rights law: Progress and prospects -- 6 The future of transitional justice: Mercy or impunity? -- 7 Academic freedom as a human right 8 Socio-economic rights: Consolidating progress, charting future directions -- 9 Women's rights: Then and now -- 10 Inhumane environments: Global violence against environmental justice activists as a human rights violation -- 11 The public, the private, and the business-societal: A threefold approach to business responsibility for human rights -- 12 Understanding human rights at the local level -- Index
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 323; Human rights; Dignity; Dignity; Human rights; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1788973089; 9781788973083
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 29, 2020).
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