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Shannon Morreira - Rights After Wrongs - 9780804798372 - V9780804798372
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Rights After Wrongs

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Description for Rights After Wrongs Hardback. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; JHMC; JPVH; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.

The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal. But rights do not exist as a mere framework; they are enacted, practiced, and debated in local contexts. Rights After Wrongs ethnographically explores the chasm between the ideals and the practice of human rights. Specifically, it shows where the sweeping colonial logics of Western law meets the lived experiences, accumulated histories, and humanitarian debts present in post-colonial Zimbabwe.

Through a comprehensive survey of human rights scholarship, Shannon Morreira explores the ways in which the global framework of human rights is locally interpreted, constituted, and contested in Harare, Zimbabwe, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Stanford Studies in Human Rights
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804798372
SKU
V9780804798372
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99-15

About Shannon Morreira
Shannon Morreira is a social anthropologist and Lecturer in the Humanities Education Development Unit at the University of Cape Town.

Reviews for Rights After Wrongs
"Rights After Wrongs explores how human rights discourses and the practices they enjoin travel—or fail to—as migrants move between sovereign states. Exploring disjunctures between ideals and practices, Morreira shows migrants' strategic use of discourses of rights and ubuntu. Unbound by national borders, this book is exceptional in its range and reach—a critical resource for scholars of rights and justice."
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