Contesting World Order? - Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements

Contesting World Order? explores how global justice movements have used socioeconomic rights to challenge neo-liberal global governance.

List of contents

1. Power, hegemony and world order; 2. Neo-liberal globalisation and socioeconomic rights: an overview; 3. Food security vs food sovereignty: the contestation of the meaning of the right to food under international law; 4. Intellectual property, the right to health and the global access to medicines campaign; 5. A commodity or a right? Evoking the human right to water to challenge neo-liberal water governance.

About the author

Joe Wills is a Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Leicester, where he conducts research in the fields of human rights, animal rights and legal and political theory. He is one of eight researchers on a British Academy funded project investigating how the UK and South Africa compensate private losses resulting from failures to give effect to the special duties human and constitutional rights impose on public authorities. He has also contributed to an Academy of Finland and University of Turku funded project entitled 'Imagining Post-Neoliberal Regulatory Subjectivities'. He has published in the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.

Summary

Global and domestic policies, and the rapid processes of economic globalisation, have led to burgeoning levels of inequality. Drawing upon insights from critical international relations theory, this book explores how global justice movements use socioeconomic rights to challenge neo-liberal global governance.

Product details

• Authors: Joe Wills, Joe (University of Leicester) Wills, Wills Joe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781316628249
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62824-9
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Globalization and Human Rights; Globalization and Human Rights
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law