Human rights transformation in practice

by Destrooper, Tine Merry, Sally Engle

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Full title :Human rights transformation in practice / edited by Tine Destrooper and Sally Engle Merry.

Summary

Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis. But are human rights really on the verge of disappearing? Human Rights Transformation in Practice argues that it is certainly the case that human rights organizations in many parts of the world are under threat, but that the ideals of justice, fairness, and equality inherent in human rights remain appealing globally-and that recognizing the continuing importance and strength of human rights requires looking for them in different places. These places are not simply the Human Rights Council or regular meetings of monitoring committees but also the offices of small NGOs and the streets of poor cities. Editors Tine Destrooper and Sally Engle Merry collect various approaches to the questions of how human rights travel and how they are transformed, offering a corrective to those perspectives locating human rights only in formal institutions and laws. Contributors to the volume empirically examine several hypotheses about the factors that impact the vernacularization and localization of human rights: how human rights ideals become formalized in local legal systems, sometimes become customary norms, and, at other times, fail to take hold. Case studies explore the ways in which local struggles may inspire the further development of human rights norms at the transnational level. Through these analyses, the essays in Human Rights Transformation in Practice consider how the vernacularization and localization processes may be shaped by different causes of human rights violations, the perceived nature of violations, and the existence of networks and formal avenues for information-sharing.0Contributors: Sara L.M. Davis, Ellen Desmet, Tine Destrooper, Mark Goodale, Ken MacLean, Samuel Martinez, Sally Engle Merry, Charmain Mohamed, Vasuki Nesiah, Arne Vandenbogaerde, Wouter Vandenhole, Johannes M. Waldmuller.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Pennsylvania Press
Place of Publication:Philadelphia
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 278 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780812250572, 0812250575
oclc:on1030353389
LC Classification:K3240
Dewey Decimal:341.4/8

Introduction. On travel, translation, and transformation / Tine Destrooper -- Ch. 1. The Escher-human rights escalator : technologies of the local / Vasuki Nesiah -- Ch. 2. Accommodating local human rights practice at the UN Human Rights Council / Arne Vandenbogaerde -- Ch. 3. Human rights-based approaches to development : the local, travel, and transformation / Wouter Vandenhole -- Ch. 4. Lost through translation : political dialectics of eco-social and collective rights in Ecuador / Johannes M. Waldmüller -- Ch. 5. Upstreaming or streamlining? Translating social movement agendas into legal claims in Nepal and the Dominican Republic / Samuel Martínez -- Ch. 6. New visibilities : challenging torture and impunity in Vietnam / Ken MacLean -- Ch. 7. Rural-urban migration and education in China : unraveling responses to injurious experiences / Ellen Desmet -- Ch. 8. Localization "light" : the travel and transformation of nonempowering human rights norms / Tine Destrooper -- Ch. 9. Global rights, local risk : community advocacy on right to health in China / Sara L.M. Davis and Charmain Mohamed.

Subjects

Droits de l'homme (Droit international) Droits de l'homme et mondialisation Human rights Human rights and globalization Justice sociale Menschenrecht Social justice Social Justice