Contesting Human Rights

Norms, Institutions and Practice

Alison Brysk, Michael Stohl (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2019
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78897-285-7 (ISBN)

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Human rights are at a crossroads. This book considers how these rights can be reconstructed in challenging times, with changes in the pathways to the realization of human rights and new developments in human rights law and policy, illustrated with case studies from Africa, Europe, and the Americas.Contesting Human Rights traces the balance between the dynamics of diffusion, resistance and innovation in the field. The book examines a range of issues from the effectiveness of norm-promotion by advocacy campaigns to the backlash facing human rights advocates. The expert contributors suggest that new opportunities at and below the state level, and creative contests of global governance, can help reconstruct human rights in the face of modern challenges. Critical case studies trace new pathways emerging in the United Nations' Universal Periodic Review, regional human rights courts, constitutional incorporation of international norms, and human rights cities.

With its innovative approach to human rights and comprehensive coverage of global, national and regional trends, Contesting Human Rights will be an invaluable tool for scholars and students of human rights, global governance, law and politics. It will also be useful for human rights advocates with a keen interest in the evolution of the human rights landscape.

Contributors include: G. Andreopoulos, C. Apodaca, P.M. Ayoub, A. Brysk, P. Elizalde, A. Feldman, M. Goodhart, C. Hillebrecht, P.C. McMahon, S. Meili, M. Mullinax, A. Murdie, B. Park, W. Sandholtz, M. Stohl

Edited by Alison Brysk, Distinguished Professor, Department of Global Studies and Political Science and Michael Stohl, Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, US

Contents:

1. Introduction: Contesting Human Rights: Pathways of Change
Alison Brysk

PART IPATHWAYS
2. Building Momentum: Changes in Advocacy Discourse Around Early Child Marriage, 2011-2017
Amanda Murdie, Baekkwan Park, Jaqueline Hart and Margo Mullinex

3. Tensions in Rights: Navigating Emerging Contradictions in the Emerging LGBT Rights Revolution
Phillip M. Ayoub

4. Better Late Than Never? The Evolving Responsibility of Internatioal Organizations
George Andreopoulous

PART IIREGIME DEVELOPMENT
5. A Horizontal Pathway to Impact? An Assessment of the Universal Periodic Review at 10
Pilar Elizalde

6. The Trans-Regional Construction of Human Rights
Wayne Sandholtz, Adam Feldman

7. The Effectiveness of an Emerging Pathway of Rights: The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law
Stephen Meili

8. Human Rights Cities: Making the Global Local
Michael Goodhart

PART IIICONTRACTIONS AND LIMITATIONS
9. Advocacy and Accountability in the Age of Backlash: NGOs and Regional Courts
Courtney Hillebrecht

10.What Went Wrong: Backlash and Contradictions in Central and Eastern Europe
Patrice C. McMahon

11. Emerging Contradictions in US Human Rights Policy: The Trump Agenda The Trump Agenda
Clair Apodaca

12. It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times: Conclusions on Contesting Human Rights
Michael Stohl

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Studies in Human Rights
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-78897-285-6 / 1788972856
ISBN-13	978-1-78897-285-7 / 9781788972857
Zustand	Neuware