Political Sociology of Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Kate Nash is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Klappentext A sociological approach to human rights, showing how rights language is used to address structural injustices around the world. Zusammenfassung This textbook develops a sociological approach to human rights that considers both commonalities and differences in contexts! actors and claims for human rights around the world. Drawing on case studies of organisations and institutions! it illustrates how human rights are being used to address structures of violence! inequality and insecurity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The social construction of human rights; 2. (A) human rights movement(s) and other organisations; 3. States of human rights; 4. The United Nations: not a world state; 5. Humanising capitalism; 6. Women's rights are human rights; 7. Do migrants have rights?; 8. What works? Paradoxes in the human rights field.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Kate Nash, Kate Nash, Kate (Goldsmiths Nash
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2015
• EAN: 9780521197496
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19749-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Key Topics in Sociology; Key Topics in Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Human rights, civil rights