{"product_id":"human-rights-hegemony-and-utopia-in-latin-america-poverty-forced-migration-and-resistance-in-mexico-and-colombia-9789004297838","title":"Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuman Rights, Hegemony and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and Karla Hernández Mares explores the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights, within the context of cases in contemporary Mexico and Colombia, and their broader implications. The first three chapters provide an introduction to the book´s overall theoretical framework, which will then be applied to a series of more specific issues (migrant rights and the rights of indigenous peoples) and cases (primarily focused on contexts in Mexico and Colombia,), which are intended to be illustrative of broader trends in Latin America and globally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Illustrations  1.  Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia         Poverty, social movements of the poor, human rights, and global justice         Utopian visions         Historical origins of utopian visions of human rights in contemporary Latin America         Challenges to hegemonic paradigms of human rights         “Paradigm wars” in Latin America         Current landscapes of liberation in Latin America: the Latin American Spring, origins and limits         Impact of constitutional and legal transformations         Pervasive state violence and paramilitarism in Mexico  2.  Poverty as a Crime against Humanity:  International Poverty Law, Human Rights, and Global Justice, from Below         Poverty as a crime against humanity         Poverty as Violence         Poverty as crime against humanity and the right to be human: ethical and philosophical frameworks as necessary but insufficient         Poverty, human rights, global justice and the “epistemologies of the South”         Relevant normative frameworks         Freedom from want, freedom from poverty, the right not to be poor, ESC rights and global order: the “original understanding”         International Poverty Law as a Framework for Convergence         Mexico as case study          Recent Developments in International Poverty Law         The Guiding Principles, the “poverty of rights,” and “human rights from below”: poverty, self-determination, and violence          Origins and evolution of the Guiding Principles          The Guiding Principles in their historical context: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its origins   3.  The Road to San Fernando: theoretical frameworks as to forced migration and forced displacement within the context of global justice and human rights         Global rights and migrant rights         Global justice, migration policy, and migrant rights         Conceptual frameworks as to global justice         Broader context of Guerrero case: Tlapa York         Conceptual framework         Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Behind: from Central America, through Mexico, to the indigenous communities of Mexico that migrate to New York   4.  Peoples in Movement- International tribunals of conscience and struggles of migrants, refugees, and the displaced for human rights “from below” Case study         Evolving articulations of migrant rights         Emerging elements of a new right         Peoples in Movement and Indigenous Peoples: potential “chains of equivalence”         Conclusions as to ITC case study         The Massacre         The San Fernando cases before the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT)         Summary of PPT Jury's findings         Responsibility of the US Government         Responsibility of the Mexican Government  5.  The counter-hegemonic origins and potential of human rights, the status of the rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America, and the World      Bank as a case study          Indigenous rights issues as a representative case         Historical Dimensions         Illustrative Policies Adopted by Other Multilateral Organizations         Conclusion: Implications of Current World Bank Policies for Indigenous Peoples  6.  Mexico, Colombia, state terror and paramilitarism         That day when Mexican military troops fired 10 shots at a bus full of unarmed civilian passengers         Uniform impunity         Relevant trends in international law, international criminal law, and international human rights law         State terror and gross, generalized violations of human rights         Migration policy and migrant rights in the context of state terror  7.  Las Abejas of Acteal: from massacre to resurrection         Mexico´s Zapatistas as a point of departure: translating and decolonizing human rights         Implications of the cases for broader issues as to indigenous and human rights         Las Abejas of Acteal         Poverty, Las Abejas, and the “theology of suffering”         Teología india (indigenous theology)         The origins of Las Abejas         Exodus, liberation, forced displacement and forced migration         The impact of counter-insurgency, militarization and paramilitarism         The aftermath of the Massacre         The search for justice as to the Acteal case         Divisions within Las Abejas and the Zedillo case         Impact of the massacre on Las Abejas  8. The right to community autonomy, justice, and security in Mexico and Colombia as a form of resistance         Citizen´s Council for the Security of Humauxtitlán\/Consejo Ciudadano por la Seguridad de Huamuxtitlán         When the bells are tolled, the people cry out their demands          Guerrero´s CRAC PC         How did Guerrero´s CRAC Policia Comunitaria first emerge?         Northern Cauca region in Colombia         The centrality in Colombia of its indigenous movement and of the Cauca region and the Nasa         The Guardia Indígena and utopian traces         Conclusion  Bibliography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210672103767,"sku":"9789004297838","price":152.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/human-rights-hegemony-and-utopia-in-latin-america-poverty-forced-migration-and-resistance-in-mexico-and-colombia-9789004297838","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}