Human Rights on the Edge - The Future of International Human Rights Law and Practice

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human rights law and practice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights.

List of contents

Foreword—The future of human rights: A research agenda Introduction—Human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice 1. NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses 2. New frontiers in international human rights: Actionable nonactionables and the (non)performance of perpetual becoming 3. Epistemes of human rights in Kashmir: Paradoxes of universality and particularity 4. “Legal exhaustion” and the crisis of human rights: Tracing legal mobilization against sexual violence and torture of Kurdish women in state custody in Turkey since the 1990s 5. The boundaries of religion in international human rights law 6. Disentangling gendered peace: Observing gendered peace in policy 7. The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage

About the author

Heather Smith-Cannoy is a Political Scientist at Arizona State University, where she directs the Global Human Rights Hub and the undergraduate degree program on Social Justice and Human Rights. She has published three books, and 15 articles and book chapters on human rights, international law, sex trafficking and gender.
Tricia Redeker Hepner is a Political and Legal Anthropologist at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on migration and displacement, transnationalism, human rights, transitional justice, militarism, and conflict/peace. She has published four books and more than twenty peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters. She directs ASU’s Master’s Program in Social Justice and Human Rights.

Summary

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human rights law and practice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights.

Product details

• Authors: Heather (Arizona State University Smith-Cannoy
• Assisted by: Tricia Redeker Hepner (Editor), Heather Smith-Cannoy (Editor), Smith-Cannoy Heather (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032495705
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249570-5
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Gender studies, gender groups, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law