New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415843634 ISBN 13 : 9780415843638

Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

This book is a contribution to both sociology and to human rights research, particularly where these are oriented to challenging power relations and inequalities in contemporary societies. It expands and develops the sociology of human rights as a sub-field of sociology and of interdisciplinary human rights scholarship.

It was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patricia Hynes is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Bedfordshire, U.K.. Her research interests include human rights and forced migration in all its forms, including internally displaced persons, refugees, asylum and 'trafficking'. She has published internationally on these interests, including for the Journal of Refugee Studies, The International Journal of Human Rights and for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Michele Lamb is Lecturer in Human Rights in the Department of Social Sciences at Roehampton University, U.K., and is the founder of the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Rights Study Group. She has conducted research on human rights in India, for the Scottish Human Rights Commission, and in Northern Ireland, from which she has published journal articles.　

Damien Short is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Director of the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London, U.K. and Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights. His research interests include indigenous people's rights, reconciliation projects, ecocide and genocide studies. He is author of Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia (Ashgate, 2008), and has published articles in numerous journals including Current Sociology, Memory Studies, Citizenship Studies and the Journal of Genocide Research. .

Matthew Waites in Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, U.K. His research interests are in sexuality, gender, youth/childhood, equality and human rights. he is author of The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and co-editor, with Kelly Kollman of The Global Politics of LGBT Human Rights, a special issue of the Contemporary Politics (Vol. 15, no.1, March 2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415843634
• ISBN 13: 9780415843638
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Éditeur: Hynes Patricia, Lamb Michele, Short Damien, Waites Matthew
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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