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Armaline, William T.

The Human Rights Enterprise: Political Sociology, State Power, and Social Movements

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Why do powerful states like the U.S., U.K., China, and Russia repeatedly fail to meet their international legal obligations as defined by human rights instruments? How does global capitalism affect states’ ability to implement human rights, particularly in the context of global recession, state austerity, perpetual war, and environmental crisis? How are political and civil rights undermined as part of moves to impose security and surveillance regimes?

This book presents a framework for understanding human rights as a terrain of struggle over power between states, private interests, and organized, “bottom-up” social movements. The authors develop a critical sociology of human rights focusing on the concept of the human rights enterprise: the process through which rights are defined and realized. While states are designated arbiters of human rights according to human rights instruments, they do not exist in a vacuum. Political sociology helps us to understand how global neoliberalism and powerful non-governmental actors (particularly economic actors such as corporations and financial institutions) deeply affect states’ ability and likelihood to enforce human rights standards.

This book offers keen insights for understanding rights claims, and the institutionalization of, access to, and restrictions on human rights. It will be invaluable to human rights advocates, and undergraduate and graduate students across the social sciences.

Avainsanat: human rights, advocacy, social justice, social movements, political sociology, civil liberties, Civil & Human Rights, Social Movements / Social Change, Civil & Human Rights, Social Movements / Social Change

Tekijä(t)
 
 
Julkaisija
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Julkaisuvuosi
2014
Kieli
en
Painos
1
Sarja
Political Sociology
Sivumäärä
224 sivua
Kategoria
Kasvatus, opetus
Tiedostomuoto
E-kirja
eISBN (ePUB)
9780745688183
Painetun ISBN
9780745663715

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