Isbn: 9780415617970 - sociology and human rights: new engagements (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. Patricia Hynes is Senior Research Officer at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the UK. Her research interests include forced migration, trafficking, and refugee and asylum policy. She has published interna.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sociology and Human Rights is the first collection to focus on the contribution that sociological approaches can make to the analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles by new and established authors. The collection includes a range of new work addressing a variety of issues such as the meanings of a cultural genocidea (TM) in relation to indigenous peoples, of a rights-based approachesa (TM) in development work, and of childhood and a childrena (TM)s rightsa (TM) in relation to struggles for the decriminalisation of same-sex sexual activity in India and worldwide. It examines contexts ranging from Rwanda and South Korea to Northern Ireland and the city of Barcelona.This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.…