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1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : human rights legalized -- defining, interpreting, and implementing an ideal / Başak Çali and Saladin Meckled-García -- Lost in translation : the human rights ideal and international human rights law / Saladin Meckled-García and Başak Çali -- The law cannot be enough : human rights and the limits of legalism / Anthony Woodiwiss -- Putting law in its place : an interdisciplinary evaluation of national amnesty laws / Michael Freeman -- The virtues of legalization / Jack Donnelly -- Is the legalization of human rights really the problem? : genocide in the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission / Richard Ashby Wilson -- Revisioning the role of law in women's human rights struggles / Ratna Kapur -- The bureaucratic gaze of international human rights law / David Chandler -- Verdictive discourses, shame and judicialization in pursuit of freedom of association rights / Edward Weisband -- From the theory of discovery to the theory of recognition of indigenous rights : conventional international law in search of homeopathy / Natalia Álvarez Molinero -- Politics of reading human rights : inclusion and exclusion within the production of human rights / Upendra Baxi. |
Summary |
This book explores the problematic relationship between human rights and their legal expression. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the authors scrutinise the extent to which legalisation shapes the human rights ideal, and survey the ethical, |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Human rights.
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Human rights. |
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Human rights -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychological aspects. |
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Human rights -- Social aspects.
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Human rights -- Social aspects. |
Indexed Term |
Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users. |
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Human rights. |
Added Author |
Meckled-García, Saladin, 1968-
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Cali, Başak, 1974-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Legalization of human rights. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006 0415361222 0415361230 (DLC) 2005002572 (OCoLC)57564684 |
ISBN |
0203008685 (electronic book) |
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9780203008683 (electronic book) |
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0415361222 (Cloth) |
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9780415361224 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0415361230 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780415361231 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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