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Zusatztext Most studies of human rights have been concerned with the vernacularization of the global – that is, with the making of the lingua franca of international human rights and its contested adoption at the local scale. We need to be equally concerned with the globalization of the vernacular – that is, with the legal and political processes whereby local actors, including subaltern groups, introduce modifications and neologisms into the vocabulary and even the grammar of human rights. This volume gives us precisely this type of well-rounded and complex account of human rights. Rather than remaining in the comfort of partial views of the movement, it embraces the messiness of the practice of rights and the possibilities of this transitional moment. And it rekindles our imagination at a time when we need it most. Informationen zum Autor Anthony Tirado Chase is a Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College, USA and Chair of its Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy. Chase has published widely on human rights in the Middle East and globally. His books include the Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa (2017), Human Rights, Revolution, and Reform in the Muslim World (2012), and Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices (co-edited with Amr Hamzawy, 2006). Chase has received Harvard Law School, Fulbright, and U.S. Institute of Peace fellowships, among others, and has worked with transnational non-governmental organizations across the globe, as well as with the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Program, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Pardis Mahdavi is Dean of Social Sciences in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, USA. She is a non-fiction writer with 20 years of experience as an anthropologist, public health researcher, and expert in sexual politics across the globe. She is the author of five books, including the first book on the sexual politics of modern Iran, Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution (2008). A former journalist turned academic, she has written for Ms. Magazine , Foreign Affairs , The Conversation , The Huffington Post , Jaddaliyya , and The Los Angeles Times Magazine . Her work has been covered in documentaries, radio shows, podcasts, and media outlets, including CNN, PBS, NPR, and Publishers Weekly . Hussein Banai teaches in the Department of International Studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, USA. Sofia Gruskin directs the University of Southern California Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH). She is Professor of Preventive Medicine and Chief of the Disease Prevention, Policy and Global Health Division at the Keck School of Medicine; Professor of Law and Preventive Medicine at the Gould School of Law; and an affiliate faculty member with the Spatial Sciences Institute at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. A pioneer in bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to global health, Gruskin’s work — which ranges from global policy to the grassroots level — has been instrumental in developing the conceptual, methodological and empirical links between health and human rights. With a long-standing focus on HIV, sexual and reproductive health, child and adolescent health, gender-based violence, non-communicable disease, and health systems, Gruskin’s work also seeks to address the manifestations of inequalities in a range of new areas, including sustainability, climate change, and the long-term impacts of COVID-19 and other emerging pandemics. Vorwort Addresses local versus cosmopolitan debates regarding human rights through the foregrounding of the lived realitie...
