Details

Subject(s)

• Human rights [Browse]

Related name

• Quataert, Jean H. (Jean Helen), 1945- [Browse]
• Wildenthal, Lora, 1965- [Browse]

Series

Routledge histories

Summary note

The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human rights themes of the past 150 years. The volume is made up of 34 original contributions. It opens with the emergence of a "new internationalism" in the mid-nineteenth century, examines the interwar, League of Nations, and the United Nations eras of human rights and decolonization, and ends with the serious challenges for rights norms, laws, institutions, and multilateral cooperation in the national security world after 9/11. These essays provide a big picture of the strategic, political, and changing nature of human rights work in the past and into the present day, and reveal the contingent nature of historical developments. Highlighting local, national, and non-Western voices and struggles, the volume contributes to overcoming Eurocentric biases that burden human rights histories and studies of international law. It analyzes regions and organizations that are often overlooked. The volume thus offers readers a new and broader perspective on the subject. International in coverage and containing cutting-edge interpretations, the volume provides an overview of major themes and suggestions for future research. This is the perfect book for those interested in social justice, grass roots activism, and international politics and society.

Source of description

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Contents

List of maps and images List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: An Open-Ended and Contingent History of Human Rights Jean H. Quataert and Lora Wildenthal Part 1. The New Internationalism 2. John Anderson - Slave, Refugee, and Freedom Fighter: A Human Rights Campaign in the Age of Empire Caroline Shaw 3. Investigating and Ameliorating Atrocities in the Nineteenth Century: International Commissions of Inquiry in the Balkans (1876-1880) Benjamin E. Brockman-Hawe 4. Reclaiming Congo Reform for the History of Human Rights Mairi S. MacDonald 5. The Red Cross and the Laws of War, 1863-1949: International Rights Activism before Human Rights Kimberly Lowe Part 2. The Interwar Era: The League of Nations 6. United in their Quest for Peace? Transnational Women Activists between the World Wars Marie Sandell 7. The "Rights of Man" and Sex Equality: International Human Rights Discourses in the 1930s Regula Ludi Part 3. The Formative UN Era A. UN Treaty Making 8. Social and Economic Rights: The Struggle for Equivalent Protection Claire-Michelle Smyth 9. Islam and UN Human Rights Treaty Ratification in the Middle East: The Impact of International Law on Diplomacy Rachel A. George 10. When the War Came: The Child Rights Convention and the Conflation of Human Rights and the Laws of War Linde Lindkvist B. Decolonization 11. "Why Then Call It the Declaration of Human Rights?" The Failures of Universal Human Rights in Colonial Africa's Internationally Supervised Territories Meredith Terretta 12. Decolonization, Development, and Identity: The Evolution of the Anticolonial Human Rights Critique, 1948-1978 Roland Burke 13. "When You are Weak, You Have to Stick to Principles": Botswana and Anti-Colonialism in Human Rights History James Christian Kirby C. Socialist and Capitalist Versions of Human Rights 14. The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Gender of Economic Rights Eileen Boris and Jill Jensen 15. Human Rights Movements and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Explaining the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 Ned Richardson-Little 16. Human Rights in China: Resisting Orthodoxy Pitman B. Potter 17. Continuity and Change in U.S. Human Rights Policy Sarah B. Snyder Part 4. After Formal Empire and the Cold War: How Human Rights are Practiced Around the Globe (1980s-2001) 18. The Universality of Human Rights: Early NGO Practices in the Arab World Catherine Baylin Dureya 19. How Women Become Human: Chilean Contributions to Women's Human Rights from Dictatorship to the 21st Century Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney 20. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo: From Dictatorship to Democracy Jennifer Adair 21. Asma Jahangir: Personifying the Human Rights Debate in Pakistan Afiya Shehrbano Zia Part 5. The Universal Human Rights Pantheon in National Contexts 22. Freedom of Religion and the New Diversity: Case Studies from Canada Lori G. Beaman 23. Indigenous Activism for Human Rights: A Case Study from Australia Rachel Standfield and Lynette Russell 24. The International LGBT Rights Movement: An Introductory History Laura A. Belmonte 25. Rights in Isolation: Lessons on Public Health and Human Rights from Leprosy and HIV in the Pacific Islands Adam R Houston Part 6. New Forms of Accountability in a National Security World (2001 to the Present) 26. Decentralization and Public-Private Diplomacy in the Business and Human Rights Field Steven S. Nam 27. The Selectivity of Universal Jurisdiction: The History of Transnational Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America and Spain Ulrike Capdepón 28. Militarized Sexual Violence and Campaigns for Redress Vera Mackie 29. Solidarity Rights and the Common Heritage of Humanity Anca Claudia Prodan 30. Intellectual Property Law and Human Rights Steven Wilf 31. Caged at the Border: Immigration Detention and the Denial of Human Rights to Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants Stephanie J. Silverman and Petra Molnar Part 7. The Transformative Impact of Human Rights on Knowledge 32. Archiving Human Rights in Latin America: Transitional Justice and Shifting Visions of Political Change Michelle Carmody 33. Emotion in the History of Human Rights: A Case Study of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Christine Lavrence 34. From the Classroom to the Public: Engaging Students in Human Rights History Jessica M. Frazier A Bibliography on the History of Human Rights Index

ISBN

• 1-000-62745-4
• 1-000-61747-5
• 0-429-32437-5

OCLC

1119391434

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