The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local

Book Overview

Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of local settings, often differently from those imagined by human rights law itself. The case studies reveal the contradictions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521683785
• ISBN13: 9780521683784
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"