Human Rights as Social Construction

by Benjamin Gregg

Author	: Benjamin Gregg
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 271
Release	: 2011-12-12
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1139505416

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Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues that reliance on such putative sources actually undermines human rights. Benjamin Gregg envisions an alternative; he sees human rights as locally developed, freely embraced, and indigenously valid. Human rights, he posits, can be created by the average, ordinary people to whom they are addressed, and that they are valid only if embraced by those to whom they would apply. To view human rights in this manner is to increase the chances and opportunities that more people across the globe will come to embrace them.

Human Rights in Global Politics

by Timothy Dunne

Author	: Timothy Dunne
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 362
Release	: 1999-03-28
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 9780521641388

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There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume investigates whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise which distracts us from the task of developing rights in the context of particular ethical communities. In the first part of the book chapters by Ken Booth, Jack Donnelly, Chris Brown, Bhikhu Parekh and Mary Midgley explore the philosophical basis of claims to universal human rights. In the second part, Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Martin Shaw, Gil Loescher, Georgina Ashworth and Andrew Hurrell reflect on the role of the media, global civil society, states, migration, non-governmental organisations, capitalism, and schools and universities in developing a global human rights culture.

A Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime

by David Polizzi

Author	: David Polizzi
Publisher	: Policy Press
Total Pages	: 104
Release	: 2016
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1447327322

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This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these constructions inform, and justify, the policies employed to address them. It is essential reading for academics and students interested in social theory and theories of criminology.

International Human Rights

by Jack Donnelly

Author	: Jack Donnelly
Publisher	: Westview Press
Total Pages	: 305
Release	: 2012-07-22
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 0813345022

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International Human Rights examines the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II. This unique textbook features substantial attention to theory, history, international and regional institutions, and the role of transnational actors in the protection and promotion of human rights. Its purpose is to explore the difficult and contentious politics of human rights, and how those political dimensions have been addressed at the national, regional, and especially international levels. The fifth edition is substantially updated, rewritten, and revised throughout, including updates on multilateral institutions (especially the UN's Universal Periodic Review process and the Human Rights Council's Special Procedures mechanisms), regional systems, human rights in foreign policy (including a specific chapter on U.S. foreign policy), humanitarian intervention and the "responsibility to protect," and (anti)terrorism and human rights. The book also includes a new chapter on the unity (indivisibility) of human rights. Chapters include discussion questions, case studies for in-depth examination of topics (including new case studies on the U.N. Special Procedures, Myanmar, and Israeli settlements in West-Bank Palestine), and ten "problems" (including new entries on the war in Syria and hierarchies between human rights) tailored to promote classroom discussion.

Sustaining Civil Society

by Philip Oxhorn

Author	: Philip Oxhorn
Publisher	: Penn State Press
Total Pages	: 296
Release	: 2011
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 0271048948

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"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.

The Social Construction of Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

by Richard Rosenfeld

Author	: Richard Rosenfeld
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 22
Release	: 2010-05
Genre	:
ISBN	: 0199805881

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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of criminology. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

The Political Sociology of Human Rights

by Kate Nash

Author	: Kate Nash
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 235
Release	: 2015-07-30
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 052119749X

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A sociological approach to human rights, showing how rights language is used to address structural injustices around the world.

The Human Rights State

by Benjamin Gregg

Author	: Benjamin Gregg
Publisher	: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages	: 296
Release	: 2016-04-12
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 0812248058

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The nation-state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and rights to all people in the world. In The Human Rights State, Benjamin Gregg proposes ways to decouple rights from citizenship, preserving the nation state, in modified form, and allowing human rights to become part of its domestic constitution.

The social construction of Swedish neutrality

by Christine Agius

Author	: Christine Agius
Publisher	: Manchester University Press
Total Pages	: 422
Release	: 2013-07-19
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1784990027

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The end of the Cold War and the ‘War on Terror’ has signalled a shift in the security policies of all states. It has also led to the reconsideration of the policy of neutrality, and what being neutral means in the present age. This book examines the conceptualisation of neutrality from the Peloponnesian War to today, uncovering how neutrality has been a neglected and misunderstood subject in International Relations (IR) theory and politics. By rethinking neutrality through constructivism, this book argues that neutrality is intrinsically linked to identity. Using Sweden as a case study, it links identity, sovereignty, internationalism and solidarity to the debates about Swedish neutrality today and how neutrality has been central to Swedish identity and its worldview. It also examines the challenges to Swedish neutrality and neutrality broadly, in terms of European integration, globalisation, the decline of the state and sovereignty, and new threats to security, such as international terrorism, arguing that the norms and values of neutrality can be reworked to contribute to a more cosmopolitan international order.