Human Rights, Power and Civic Action - Comparative Analyses of Struggles for Rights in Developing Societies

Informationen zum Autor Bård A. Andreassen is Professor of Human Rights at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. he is currently Research Director of the Research Group on Human Rights and Development at the Law Faculty, University of Oslo. Gordon Crawford is Professor of Development Politics in the School of Politics and International Studies and Director of the Centre for Global Development at the University of Leeds, UK. Klappentext Human Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries. Zusammenfassung Human Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Theoretical Considerations Gordon Crawford and Bård A. Andreassen 2. Rights Claiming and Rights Making in Zimbabwe: A Study of Three Human Rights NGOs Anne Hellum, Bill Derman, Geoff Feltoe, Ellen Sithole, Julie Stewart and Amy Tsanga 3. Kenya: Civic action from confrontation to collaboration? Bård A. Andreassen and Tiberius Barasa 4. Ghana: Struggles for rights in a democratizing context Gordon Crawford and Nana Akua Anyidoho 5. South Africa: From Struggle to Idealism and Back Again Malcolm Langford, Bill Derman, Tshebo Madlingozi, Khulekani Moyo, Jackie Dugard, Anne Hellum and Shirhami Shirinda 6. China: NGOs & Human Rights in Action Tang Lay Lee 7. Cambodia: Civil Society, Power and Stalled Democracy Stephen P. Marks and Ramya Naraharisetti 8. Power, Human Rights and Civic Action: Conclusions Gordon Crawford and Bård A. Andreassen

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Bard A. (University of Olso Andreassen, Bard A. Crawford Andreassen
• Mitarbeit: Bård A. Andreassen (Herausgeber), Gordon Crawford (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.04.2013
• EAN: 9780415669030
• ISBN: 978-0-415-66903-0
• Seiten: 280
• Serie: Routledge Research in Human Rights
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Human rights, civil rights