| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 249 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Stanford studies in human rights
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Stanford studies in human rights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A place to live : resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Felix Morka -- Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Duncan Kennedy -- Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice : South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- The evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania : structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Freeing Mohammed Zakari : rights as footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- Stones of hope : experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- The long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White. |
| Summary |
Stones of Hope shows how African human rights activists have opened new possibilities for justice in the everyday lives of the world's most impoverished peoples. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human Rights Africa (Organization) |
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Human rights advocacy -- Africa -- Case studies.
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Human rights advocacy. |
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Africa. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Social rights -- Africa.
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Social rights. |
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Human rights -- Africa.
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Human rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Human rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Added Author |
White, Lucie, 1949-
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Perelman, Jeremy.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stones of hope. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2010030289 (OCoLC)630479988 |
| ISBN |
9780804776431 (electronic book) |
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0804776431 (electronic book) |
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9780804769198 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804769192 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804769204 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0804769206 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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