Human Rights Studies and Social Development
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Human rights and child labour. 3. Ethnic constitutional orders. 4. Women in the quest for human rights. 5. Peasant justice. 6. Globalisations impact. 7. Reproductive rights as human rights. 8. Accounts of human rights. 9. Modernisation without westernisation. 10. Rights of foreign migrant. 11. The age of rights. Bibliography. Index.
One of the most significant transformations in the nature of political action to have taken place over the last 50 years has been the increasing shift away from established political parties and towards issue based campaigning organizations or social movements, away from nation state politics towards global politics. Social movements as one of the most influential agents shape our conceptions of human rights. It cannot be properly understood outside of the context of social movement struggles and the literature on human rights has systematically obscured this link, consequently distorting the understandings of human rights.
The human rights institutions groups, and actors promote their own form of discourse and this discourse concurrently has the effect of eliminating from the conversation a certain element, from one perspective limiting a priori the option for a possibly necessary radical social change and from another perspective excusing in a round about way violations of general human dignity. (jacket)
One of the most significant transformations in the nature of political action to have taken place over the last 50 years has been the increasing shift away from established political parties and towards issue based campaigning organizations or social movements, away from nation state politics towards global politics. Social movements as one of the most influential agents shape our conceptions of human rights. It cannot be properly understood outside of the context of social movement struggles and the literature on human rights has systematically obscured this link, consequently distorting the understandings of human rights.
The human rights institutions groups, and actors promote their own form of discourse and this discourse concurrently has the effect of eliminating from the conversation a certain element, from one perspective limiting a priori the option for a possibly necessary radical social change and from another perspective excusing in a round about way violations of general human dignity. (jacket)
