Human Rights and Social Movements - Couverture souple

Stammers, Neil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 074532911X ISBN 13 : 9780745329116

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2009

Synopsis

--Stammers explores the link between social movements and human rights-- This book champions social movements as one of the most influential agents that shape our conceptions of human rights. Stammers argues that human rights cannot be properly understood outside of the context of social movement struggles. He explains how much of the literature on human rights has systematically obscured this link, consequently distorting our understandings of human rights. Stammers identifies the contours of a new framework through which human rights can be understood. He suggests that what he calls the 'paradox of institutionalisation' can only be addressed through a recognition of the importance of human rights arising out of grassroots activism, and through processes of institutional democratisation.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Set against the narratives of the current crises of theory and praxes of human rights, Neil Stammers here explores the difficult relationship between human rights and social movement activist practices and thus inaugurally redresses a lamentable and long-felt lack in the literature of comparative social theory and history of human rights. In so doing, Stammers also provides us plentiful resources to combat various forms of human rights weariness and wariness. --Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick

Neil Stammers gives us a lively, provocative and insightful discussion of human rights and social movements that goes to the heart of what human rights are, what they are not, and what we might aspire for them to be. --Professor Richard A. Wilson, Director, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut

I think this book is superb. It really cracks the problem of this disconnect between the lawyers and the sociologists. --Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book champions social movements as one of the most influential agents that shape our conceptions of human rights. Stammers argues that human rights cannot be properly understood outside of the context of social movement struggles. He explains how much of the literature on human rights has systematically obscured this link, consequently distorting our understandings of human rights. Stammers identifies the contours of a new framework through which human rights can be understood. He suggests that what he calls the 'paradox of institutionalisation' can only be addressed through a recognition of the importance of human rights arising out of grassroots activism, and through processes of institutional democratisation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 074532911X
• ISBN 13: 9780745329116
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296