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Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism (China Today) - Softcover

Buch 15 von 20: China Today

Pils, Eva

 
9781509500703: Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism (China Today)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509500707 ISBN 13: 9781509500703
Verlag: Polity, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of resources including years of interaction with Chinese human rights defenders, Pils discusses what gives rise to systematic human rights violations, what institutional avenues of protection are available, and how social practices of human rights defence have evolved. 

Three central areas are addressed: liberty and integrity of the person; freedom of thought and expression; and inequality and socio-economic rights. Pils argues that the Party-State system is inherently opposed to human rights principles in all these areas, and that – contributing to a global trend – it is becoming more repressive. Yet, despite authoritarianism's lengthening shadows, China’s human rights movement has so far proved resourceful and resilient. The trajectories discussed here will continue to shape the struggle for human rights in China and beyond its borders.

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Eva Pils is Reader in Transnational Law at King's College London.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509500707
ISBN 13 
9781509500703
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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