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Author : Brian Gran
Release : 2015-12-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 955/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Expanding the Human in Human Rights by : Brian Gran
Download or read book Expanding the Human in Human Rights written by Brian Gran. This book was released on 2015-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Author : David L. Brunsma
Release : 2015
Genre : Group identity
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Book Rating : 798/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Expanding the Human in Human Rights by : David L. Brunsma
Download or read book Expanding the Human in Human Rights written by David L. Brunsma. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Frezzo
Release : 2014-12-23
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 680/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Human Rights by : Mark Frezzo
Download or read book The Sociology of Human Rights written by Mark Frezzo. This book was released on 2014-12-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long the arena of philosophers, legal scholars, and political scientists, the interdisciplinary study of human rights has recently seen an influx of sociologists. Why is this so, and how do sociologists contribute to our understanding of human rights in the contemporary world? In this landmark new text, Mark Frezzo explores the sociological perspective on human rights, which he shows to be uniquely placed to illuminate the economic, political, social, and cultural conditions under which human rights norms and laws are devised, interpreted, implemented, and enforced. Sociologists treat human rights not as immutable attributes but as highly contested claims that vary across historical time and geographic space, and investigate how human rights can serve either to empower or to constrain social actors, from large societies to small communities and identity groups. Frezzo guides readers through the scholarly, pedagogical, and practical applications of a sociological view of major debates such as foundationalism vs. social constructionism, universalism vs. particularism, globalism vs. localism, and collective vs. individual rights. This cutting-edge text will appeal to students of sociology, political science, law, development, and social movements, and all interested in the nature, scope, and applicability of human rights in the twenty-first century.
Author : Nicola Perugini
Release : 2015-05-27
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 032/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Human Right to Dominate by : Nicola Perugini
Download or read book The Human Right to Dominate written by Nicola Perugini. This book was released on 2015-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals. In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights--generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices--are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize domination. Using Israel/Palestine as its main case study, The Human Right to Dominate describes the establishment of settler NGOs that appropriate human rights to dispossess indigenous Palestinians and military think-tanks that rationalize lethal violence by invoking human rights. The book underscores the increasing convergences between human rights NGOs, security agencies, settler organizations, and extreme right nationalists, showing how political actors of different stripes champion the dissemination of human rights and mirror each other's political strategies. Indeed, Perugini and Gordon demonstrate the multifaceted role that this discourse is currently playing in the international arena: on the one hand, human rights have become the lingua franca of global moral speak, while on the other, they have become reconstrued as a tool for enhancing domination.
Author : Bryan S. Turner
Release : 2015-10-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 445/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Vulnerability and Human Rights by : Bryan S. Turner
Download or read book Vulnerability and Human Rights written by Bryan S. Turner. This book was released on 2015-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights. Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion.
