Written by an international group of leading social science scholars in the field of human rights, this new volume situates the study of human rights in an open interdisciplinary terrain. Ranging over diverse topics and pathways in the theory and practice of human rights, this volume will be an invaluable aid to those seeking to understand the complex meanings, institutions, and practices of human rights.
Written by an international group of leading social science scholars in the field of human rights, this new volume situates the study of human rights in an open interdisciplinary terrain. Ranging over diverse topics and pathways in the theory and practice of human rights, this volume will be an invaluable aid to those seeking to understand the complex meanings, institutions, and practices of human rights.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rhiannon Morgan is Lecturer in Political Sociology at Oxford Brookes University. From 2004 to 2007 she was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her publications include (2004) Advancing Indigenous Rights at the United Nations: Strategic Framing and its Impact on the Normative Development of International Law, Social and Legal Studies 13(4): 481-501 and (2007) On Political Institutions and Social Movement Dynamics: The Case of the United Nations and the Global Indigenous Movement, International Political Science Review 28 (3), 273-292. She is also author of Transforming Law and Institution: Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations, and Human Rights, with Ashgate (forthcoming 2009). Professor Bryan S. Turner is currently Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College USA. He is the research leader of the cluster on religion and globalisation in ARI, and is currently writing a study of the sociology of religion for Cambridge University Press. He edited the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (2006) and Vulnerability and Human Rights with Penn State University Press (2006). Professor Turner is a research associate of GEMAS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris), an honorary professor of Deakin University, and an adjunct professor of Murdoch University Australia. Professor Turner is the founding editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and with John O'Neill co-founder of the Journal of Classical Sociology.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Human Rights Research and the Social Sciences Rhiannon Morgan 2. Political Science and Human Rights Todd Landman 3. The Right to Health Michael Freeman 4. Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Anthropology and the Question of Rights to Culture Colin Samson 5. Democratic Rights Kate Nash 6. What Could it Mean to Take Human Rights Seriously? Anthony Woodiwiss 7. Forging Indigenous Rights at the United Nations: A Social Constructionist Account Rhiannon Morgan 8. The New Humanism: Beyond Modernity and Postmoderninty Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada 9. Corporations and Human Rights Gideon Sjoberg 10. A Sociology of Citizenship and Human Rights: Does Social Theory Still Exist? Bryan S. Turner
1. Human Rights Research and the Social Sciences Rhiannon Morgan 2. Political Science and Human Rights Todd Landman 3. The Right to Health Michael Freeman 4. Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Anthropology and the Question of Rights to Culture Colin Samson 5. Democratic Rights Kate Nash 6. What Could it Mean to Take Human Rights Seriously? Anthony Woodiwiss 7. Forging Indigenous Rights at the United Nations: A Social Constructionist Account Rhiannon Morgan 8. The New Humanism: Beyond Modernity and Postmoderninty Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada 9. Corporations and Human Rights Gideon Sjoberg 10. A Sociology of Citizenship and Human Rights: Does Social Theory Still Exist? Bryan S. Turner
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