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What is Human Rights and Social Movements about?

This book champions social movements as one of the most influential agents that shape our conceptions of human rights. It argues that human rights cannot be understood outside of the context of social movement struggles. It explains how much of the literature on human rights has systematically obscured this link, consequently distorting our understandings of human rights. Neil Stammers shows how human rights can be understood. He suggests that what he calls the'paradox of institutionalisation'can only be addressed through a recognition of the importance of human rights arising out of grassroots activism, and through processes of institutional democratisation.

Author

Neil Stammers, Robert Jupe, Jane Andrew

Publisher

London ; New York, NY: Pluto Press ; New York: Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783713967

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences