Routledge Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chase, Anthony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook:

• Emphasises the need to consider human rights in all their dimensions to better understand structural reasons behind the persistence of human rights violations
• Explores the various frameworks in which to consider human rights - conceptual, political and transnational/international
• Discusses the areas subject to particularly intense debate - gender, religion, transitions and accountability
• Covers perspectives ranging from Global Theory to Grassroots reflections, emphasising the need for academic work on human rights to engage more seriously with the reflections of those working on the ground

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 538
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317613756
• Artikelnr.: 47137515

Autorenporträt

Anthony Tirado Chase is a Professor in International Relations at Occidental College, USA. Professor Chase is a theoretician of human rights, most often in the context of the Middle East. His most recent article is "Human Rights Contestations: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity" in International Journal of Human Rights (April, 2016). His previous books are Human Rights, Revolution, and Reform in the Muslim World (2012) and Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices (co-edited with Amr Hamzawy, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Section I Introduction and Overview 1. Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa: Indivisibility
Social Rights
and Structural Change Anthony Tirado Chase Section II A Conceptual Frameword: Political
Economic
and Cultural Rights in the Middle East and North Africa 2. Political Legitimacy
Contingency
and Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
Hussein Banai 3. Economic Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat 4. Cultural Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Art
Revolution
and Repression
Mark LeVine Section III A Political Framework: Intersecting Human Rights and Governance Crises in the Middle East and North Africa 5. Genocide in the Contemporary Middle-East: A Historical and Comparative Regional Perspective
Martin Shaw 6. The ISIS Crisis and the Broken Politics of the Arab World: A Framework for Understanding Radical Islamism Nader Hashemi 7. The Impact of the AKP on Human Rights in Turkey: Two Steps Forward
One Step Back
Turan Kayaoglu 8. The Politics of Human Rights in Iran Since the Green Movement
Shadi Mokhtari and Neda Nazmi 9. Narrating Law: Israel and the Occupied Territories
Kathleen Cavanaugh 10. The United States and Israeli Violations of International Humanitarian Law
Stephen Zunes Section IV A Transnational and International Framework: Human Rights beyond Borders 11. Rival Transnational Advocacy Networks and Middle East Politics at the UN Human Rights Council
Laura Landolt 12. Redefining Rights: OIC Attempts to Reshape Values in the UN Human Rights System
Ann Mayer 13. Human Rights
Youth
and Technology: Agents of Change? Mahmood Monshipouri 14. Rights
Refugees
and the Case of Syria: What Do Human Rights Offer
Kathleen Hamill Section V Gender and Human Rights in the Middl