Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights

History, Politics, Practice
Herausgeber: Srikanth, Rajini; Chowdhury, Elora Halim

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Produktbeschreibung

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights is an edited collection which brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781138482050
• ISBN-10: 1138482056
• Artikelnr.: 54804192

Autorenporträt

Rajini Srikanth is Professor of English and Dean of the Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Her research interests include the intersection between literature and human rights, post-apartheid South Africa, comparative race and ethnic studies, and Asian American literature. Her recent publications include Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law (2012) and The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (2016). Elora Halim Chowdhury is Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Her research interests include transnational feminisms, film and culture, and human rights narrative with an emphasis on South Asia. Her recent publications include Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh (2011) and Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism and Transnational Solidarity (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Human Rights Discourse: Context and History; Chapter
1: Imaginary and Real Strangers: Constructing and Reconstructing the Human
in Human Rights Discourse and Instruments; Chapter 2: Rise of the Global
Human Rights Regime: Challenging Power with Humanity; Chapter 3: Between
Nothingness and Infinity: Settlement and Anti-Blackness as the
Overdetermination of Human Rights; Chapter 4: Human Rights, Latin America,
and Left Internationalism during the Cold War; Chapter 5: Women, Gender,
and Human Rights; Chapter 6: The United States-Mexico Border and Human
Rights; Chapter 7: Unintended Consequences in the Postcolonies: When
Struggling South Africans Experience Rights Discourse As Disempowering
Part II. Critical Areas in Human Rights; Chapter 8: The Mysterious
Disappearance of Human Rights in the 2030 Development Agenda; Chapter 9:
Addressing General Recommendation No. 35 from an Intersectional Perspective
on Violence, Gender and Disability in Mexico; Chapter 10: Global LGBTQ
politics and Human Rights; Chapter 11: Refugee Camps and the (Educational)
Rights of the Child; Chapter 12: Persistent Voices: A History of Indigenous
People and Human Rights in Australia, 1950s-2000s; Part III. Praxis and
Human Rights; Chapter 13: So You Want to Work in Human Rights?; Chapter 14:
Migrant Workers in the Gulf: Theoretical and Human Rights Dilemmas; Chapter
15: Ethical Reckoning: Theorizing Gender, Vulnerability and Agency in
Bangladesh Muktijuddho Film; Chapter 16: Right Now in No Place with
Strangers: Eudora Welty's Queer Love; Chapter 17: On The Human Right to
Peace in Times of Contemporary Colonial Power; Chapter 18: Beyond Dignity:
A Case Study of the Mis/Use of Human Rights Discourse in Development
Campaigns; Chapter 19: Teaching Health and Human Rights in a Psychology
Capstone: Cultivating Connections between Rights, Personal Wellness and
Social Justice; Appendix