Description
Book SynopsisA study that champions social movements as influential agents in shaping our conceptions of human rights
Trade Review'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
'Explores the difficult relationship between human rights and social movement activist practices.' -- Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
1. Getting Beyond the Hall of Mirrors
2. The 'Sociality' Of Natural Rights
3. The Lost Nineteenth Century
4. The Paradox of Institutionalisation
5. New Movements? Old Wrongs?
6. Expressive and Instrumental Dimensions of Movement Activism
7. Analyses of Globalisation and Human Rights
8. Renewing the Challenge to Power
Notes
Bibliography
Index
