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The concept of a right, and the idea of human rights, were familiar abstractions on the brink of the twentieth century. But the history of political mobilization since shows that human rights had a transformative capacity in that century that no prior age had demonstrated. Through the twentieth century, human rights became institutionalized internationally in laws, movements, and organizations that transcended state-based citizenship and governance - which irrevocably changed the politics around them. Rights continued to evolve as the imperial world order transitioned to a postcolonial world of sovereign states as a primary form of political organization. Through twenty-six essays from experts around the world demonstrating how this period is historically distinctive, volume five of The Cambridge History of Rights is a comprehensive and authoritative reference for the history of rights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
List of contents
General editor introduction Nehal Bhuta, Anthony Pagden and Mira L. Siegelberg; Introduction Samuel Moyn and Meredith Terretta; 1. Genealogies and human rights Ben Golder; Part I. Rights, Politics and Mobilization Around the World: 2. Women's rights in international politics, 1900 -1967 Jean Quataert deceased; 3. Rights and empire Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro; 4. Human rights and self-determination Umut Özsu; 5. Rights and communism Ned Richardson-Little; 6. Regional rights projects and decolonization in the twentieth century Anne-Isabelle Richard and Stella Krepp; 7. Hierarchies of rights Barbara Keys; 8. Human rights and cold war foreign policy Michael Cotey Morgan; Part II. Forms and Fora of Rights Claiming: 9. Visions of human rights Adam Etinson and Jiewuh Song; 10. On the critique of rights Jessica Whyte; 11. Race, rights and the politics of petitioning Emma Stone Mackinnon; 12. Transnational NGOs and human rights Jan Eckel; 13. The 1993 world conference on human rights and the new rights ecosystem; 14. Transitional justice, legal non-performatives and the sentiments of moving on Kamari Maxine Clarke; Part III. Rights Causes and Their Evolution: 15. Rights without subjects: a history of children's human rights Linde Lindkvist; 16. Development as the imperialism of 'free' trade: rights, liberalism and the engineering of African economies Alden Young and Tinashe Nyamunda; 17. Economic and social human rights in the twentieth century Steven Jensen; 18. Christianity, religious rights and decolonization Justin Reynolds; 19. (Trans)gender identity and international human rights law Sandra Duffy; 20. Resistance and insistence: making postcolonial indigenous rights Miranda Johnson; 21. Health Sara Silverstein; 22. Human rights and warfare Boyd van Dijk; 23. The rights of artificial intelligence Jim Davies; 24. Rights and environmental change Kerri Woods; 25. Memorialisation, commemoration, and rights Bonny Ibhawoh.
