| Author | : Anindita Mukherjee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2019-12-12 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1108720277 |
Examines the benefits of seeking legal recognition for the right to housing, within the Indian legal context.
Housing and Politics in Urban India
| Author | : Swetha Rao Dhananka |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2020-12-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108633811 |
Providing adequate housing in an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge of current times. This book puts together a compelling story based on fine-grained analysis of housing processes, as lived by slum-dwellers and their voice-bearers. It situates the lived experience of claiming adequate housing within informal transactions and negotiations of patronage networks vis-à-vis the formal institutional opportunities and closures of Indian democracy. In doing so, this research extends an innovative array of conceptual and methodological tools to grasp the context in which housing claims succeed and fail. This book contributes by responding to critical areas of social movement scholarship and by displaying community engagements and tactical strategies to bring about transformative change to claim adequate housing and resist co-opting forces for socially sustainable housing futures.
The Right to Adequate Housing
| Author | : Rajindar Sachar |
| Publisher | : New York, New York : United Nations |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
A new & timely publication made all the more urgent by the enormity by the global housing crisis, with inadequate housing threatening the health, safety & dignity of so many. An invaluable addition to the already successful Human Rights Study Series.
The Right to Housing
| Author | : Jessie Hohmann |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2013-03-01 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1782250999 |
A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the right to housing raises housing itself to the position of primary importance. However, the meaning, content, scope and even existence of a right to housing raise vexed questions. Drawing on insights from disciplines including law, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and geography, this book is both a contribution to the state of knowledge on the right to housing, and an entry into the broader human rights debate. It addresses profound questions on the role of human rights in belonging and citizenship, the formation of identity, the perpetuation of forms of social organisation and, ultimately, of the relationship between the individual and the state. The book addresses the legal, theoretical and conceptual issues, providing a deep analysis of the right to housing within and beyond human rights law. Structured in three parts, the book outlines the right to housing in international law and in key national legal systems; examines the most important concepts of housing: space, privacy and identity and, finally, looks at the potential of the right to alleviate human misery, marginalisation and deprivation. The book represents a major contribution to the scholarship on an under-studied and ill-defined right. In terms of content, it provides a much needed exploration of the right to housing. In approach it offers a new framework for argument within which the right to housing, as well as other under-theorised and contested rights, can be reconsidered, reconnecting human rights with the social conditions of their violation, and hence with the reasons for their existence. Shortlisted for The Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2013.
Human Rights
| Author | : Andrew Clapham |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0198706162 |
Focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, and discrimination, this book will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind human rights.
Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe
| Author | : Christoph U. Schmid |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2018-01-26 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1788113985 |
Tenancy law has developed in all EU member states for decades, or even centuries, but constitutes a widely blank space in comparative and European law. This book fills an important gap in the literature by considering the diverse and complex panorama of housing policies, markets and their legal regulation across Europe. Expert contributors argue that that while unification is neither politically desired nor opportune, a European recommendation of best practices including draft rules and default contracts implementing a regulatory equilibrium would be a rewarding step forward.
International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 3870 |
| Release | : 2012-10-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0080471714 |
Available online via SciVerse ScienceDirect, or in print for a limited time only, The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Seven Volume Set is the first international reference work for housing scholars and professionals, that uses studies in economics and finance, psychology, social policy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, law, and other disciplines to create an international portrait of housing in all its facets: from meanings of home at the microscale, to impacts on macro-economy. This comprehensive work is edited by distinguished housing expert Susan J. Smith, together with Marja Elsinga, Ong Seow Eng, Lorna Fox O'Mahony and Susan Wachter, and a multi-disciplinary editorial team of 20 world-class scholars in all. Working at the cutting edge of their subject, liaising with an expert editorial advisory board, and engaging with policy-makers and professionals, the editors have worked for almost five years to secure the quality, reach, relevance and coherence of this work. A broad and inclusive table of contents signals (or tesitifes to) detailed investigation of historical and theoretical material as well as in-depth analysis of current issues. This seven-volume set contains over 500 entries, listed alphabetically, but grouped into seven thematic sections including methods and approaches; economics and finance; environments; home and homelessness; institutions; policy; and welfare and well-being. Housing professionals, both academics and practitioners, will find The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home useful for teaching, discovery, and research needs. International in scope, engaging with trends in every world region The editorial board and contributors are drawn from a wide constituency, collating expertise from academics, policy makers, professionals and practitioners, and from every key center for housing research Every entry stands alone on its merits and is accessed alphabetically, yet each is fully cross-referenced, and attached to one of seven thematic categories whose ‘wholes' far exceed the sum of their parts
The Judicial Application of Human Rights Law
| Author | : Nihal Jayawickrama |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1104 |
| Release | : 2002-12-12 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780521780421 |
10 The right to life
