Ariadna Estévez

Broschiertes Buch

Human Rights and Free Trade in Mexico

A Discursive and Sociopolitical Perspective

Beschreibung

This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.

Autor

ARIADNA ESTÉVEZ is a Researcher at the Centre for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (CISAN-UNAM).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-37385-7
• 1st edition 2008
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781349373857
• ISBN-10: 1349373850
• Artikelnr.: 45081348

Rezensionen

"This is a highly original and ground-breaking study, a sophisticated empirical look at the use of human rights discourse to construct collective identities in order to address social and economic grievances. Estévez also deals with some important theoretical issues in the field of human rights, particularly whether there is a specific Latin American approach human rights, different from dominant Western mainstream discourses. This theoretical and substantive approach will be valuable to scholars of human rights, social movements, and contemporary Mexican and Latin American politics." - Francisco Panizza, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, London School of Economics