Human rights at the crossroads /edited by Mark Goodale.

Human rights at the crossroads /edited by Mark Goodale. - Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Human rights after the Post-Cold War / Human rights and the politics of contestation / Why act towards one another "in a spirit of brotherhood"? : the grounds of human rights / An overlapping consensus on human rights and human dignity / The "right to have rights" to the rescue : from human rights to global democracy / Prosecuting human rights violations : universal jurisdiction and the crime of torture / Solidarity and accountability : rethinking citizenship and human rights / Whose vernacular? : translating human rights in local contexts / Sacred graves and human rights / Human rights monitoring and the question of indicators / The paradox of perpetration : a view from the Cambodian genocide / "Why we care" : constructing solidarity / Historical amnesia, genocide, and the rejection of universal human rights / The law's legal anthropology / Cutting human rights down to size / Acceptable uses of people / Mark Goodale -- Michael Goodhart -- Michael J. Perry -- Ari Kohen -- Eva Erman -- Tobias Kelly -- Karen Ann Faulk -- Daniel M. Goldstein -- Adam Rosenblatt -- Sally Engle Merry -- Alexander Laban Hinton -- Alison Brysk -- Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann -- Ronald Niezen -- Harri Englund -- Pheng Cheah.



9780199707454


Human rights.
Human rights--Political aspects.
Genocide.


Electronic Books.

K3240 / .H863 2013