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Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies from Latin America
Katherine Hite
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Description for Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies from Latin America
Hardback. The contributors provide an historical framework, describe formal and legal institutions, and discuss the citizens' movements and conceptions of citizenship that produce distinct kinds of political identities and struggles. Editor(s): Hite, Katherine; Ungar, Mark. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; JPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 728.
These essays take a much-needed look at the course of human rights strategies rooted in the last century's struggles against brutally repressive dictators. Those struggles continue today across Latin America. Augmented by the pursuit of broader political, cultural, labor, and environmental rights, they hold accountable a much wider cast of national governments, local governments, international agencies, and multinational corporations. In "Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century", some of the Western Hemisphere's leading human rights experts shape and bolster new approaches, from the concepts of rights to transnational efforts, by placing the struggle for rights in historical and comparative perspective. ... Read more
These essays take a much-needed look at the course of human rights strategies rooted in the last century's struggles against brutally repressive dictators. Those struggles continue today across Latin America. Augmented by the pursuit of broader political, cultural, labor, and environmental rights, they hold accountable a much wider cast of national governments, local governments, international agencies, and multinational corporations. In "Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century", some of the Western Hemisphere's leading human rights experts shape and bolster new approaches, from the concepts of rights to transnational efforts, by placing the struggle for rights in historical and comparative perspective. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421410128
SKU
V9781421410128
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About Katherine Hite
Katherine Hite is a professor of political science and the Frederick Ferris Thompson Chair at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is the author of Politics and the Art of Commemoration: Memorials to Struggle in Latin America and Spain. Mark Ungar is a professor of political science and criminal justice at Brooklyn College and the City University of ... Read more
Reviews for Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies from Latin America
This is an excellent book on human rights as it pertains to the situation in Latin America.
Paiso Jamakar Biz India Magazine
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