The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine

by Lori Allen

Book Overview

The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world-its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse-since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, in failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an accountable Palestinian government, the human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080478471X
• ISBN13: 9780804784719
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"