The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space between. In capturing this cutting edge research program, the volume proposes a perspective that motivates critical self-reflection of the strategies that drive communities dedicated to the advocacy and implementation of human rights.

Autorentext
Anthony Clark Arend, Georgetown University, USA
Alexandra Cosima Budabin, University of Dayton, USA
Barbara A. Frey, J.D., University of Minnesota, USA
Natalie Florea Hudson, University of Dayton, USA
Kristi Heather Kenyon, Dalhousie University, Canada
Matthew Krain, the College of Wooster, USA
Mark P. Lagon, President of Freedom House, USA
Michele Leiby, the College of Wooster, USA
Kyla McEntire, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, USA
Paul Nelson, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Joel R. Pruce, the University of Dayton, USA
Alex de Waal, Tufts University, USA
Carrie Booth Walling, Albion College, USA

Inhalt

1. The Practice Turn in Human Rights Research; Joel R. Pruce PART I: CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE 2. Rethinking Activism: Social Movements and the State over the Longue Durée; Alex de Waal 3. How to Ask People for Change: Examining Peoples' Willingness to Donate to Human Rights Campaigns; Kyla McEntire, Michele Leiby, and Matthew Krain 4. Documentarian, Witness, and Organizer: Exploring Celebrity Roles in Human Rights Media Advocacy; Alexandra Cosima Budabin PART II: GRASSROOTS SITES OF PRACTICE 5. The Human Right to Water and Advocacy for Urban Water Supply: After the Privatization Struggles; Paul Nelson 6. Localizing the Global/Globalizing the Local: Reconciling Botho and Human Rights in Botswana; Kristi Heather Kenyon 7. Uneven Ground: Asymmetries of Power in Human Rights Advocacy in Mexico; Barbara A. Frey PART III: INSTITUTIONAL SITES OF PRACTICE 8. The UN Security Council and the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights; Carrie Booth Walling 9. The Social Practice of Securitizing Women's Rights and Gender Equality: 1325 Fifteen Years On; Natalie Florea Hudson 10. Constructing a Dialogue on Human Dignity: The Role for Global Institutions; Mark P. Lagon and Anthony Clark Arend