Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) - Softcover

Buch 13 von 111: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Armaline, William T

 
9780812222579: Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0812222571 ISBN 13: 9780812222579
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013

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Most Americans assume that the United States provides a gold standard for human rights--a 2007 survey found that 80 percent of U.S. adults believed that the U.S. does a better job than most countries when it comes to protecting human rights. As well, discussions among scholars and public officials in the United States frame human rights issues as concerning people, policies, or practices over there. By contrast, the contributors to this volume argue that many of the greatest immediate and structural threats to human rights, and some of the most significant efforts to realize human rights in practice, can be found in our own backyard. Human Rights in Our Own Backyard examines the state of human rights and responses to human rights issues, drawing on sociological literature and perspectives to interrogate assumptions of American exceptionalism. How do people in the U.S. address human rights issues? What strategies have they adopted, and how successful have these strategies been? Essays are organized around key conventions of human rights, focusing on the relationships between human rights and justice, the state and the individual, civil rights and human rights, and group rights versus individual rights. The contributors are united by a common conception of the human rights enterprise as a process involving not only state-defined and implemented rights but also human rights from below as promoted by activists.

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Edited by William T. Armaline, Davita Silfen Glasberg, and Bandana Purkayastha

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Verlag
University of Pennsylvania Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812222571
ISBN 13 
9780812222579
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Anzahl der Seiten
346
Herausgeber
Glasberg Davita Silfen, Purkayastha Bandana
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