Human rights: concepts, contests, contingencies

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"Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights." "In exploring a crucial and timely topic, this additional volume in the Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought will enlighten the reader to the social and intellectual currents surrounding human rights."--Ja…

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Full title :Human rights : concepts, contests, contingencies / edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns.

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Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

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Description:1 online resource (124 pages)

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ISBN:9780472023622, 0472023624
oclc:ocn593274279
LC Classification:JC571
Dewey Decimal:323

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