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Human Rights as Battlefields: Changing Practices and Contestations

Edited by: Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, Sylvie Paquerot

ISBN13: 9783319917696
Published: September 2018
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Format: Hardback
Price: £109.99



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This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions. This translation, in turn, contributes to modifying the scope and understanding of human rights. Ultimately, these battlefields express the legitimacy encounter of different versions of human rights in contemporary political practices.

The volume thus challenges both the tendency to minimize the changing nature of human rights as well as the struggles emerging from the use of human rights discourses as a legitimization tool. By shifting the focus on what stakeholders do instead of solely on the origin, nature or foundations of human rights, the authors reveal that human rights are not static objects: they are constantly transformed and, as such, affect the horizon of universal rights.

Subjects:
Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Contents:
1. Introduction: Becoming Human Rights Subjects Through New Practices Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot
Part I - The Changing Nature of Human Rights and Their Political Boundaries: New Definitions, Longstanding Debates
2. Human Rights As Battlefields: Power Relations, Translations and Transformations - A Theoretical FrameworkGabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot
3. The Gender of Human Rights: The French Debate Over "les Droits de l'Homme"Charles Bosvieux-Onyekwelu 4. The Right to Water: The Political Function of Human Rights as an Expression of the Contradictions in GlobalizationSylvie Paquerot
5. Politics of Neutrality, Human Rights and Armed Struggles: The Turkey ExampleOzan Kamiloglu
Part II - Overcoming the Frontiers of Discrimination and Structural Violence: Intersectional Struggles of Human Rights From Below and Transformations of Political Space
6. Child Prisoners, Human Rights and Human Rights Activism: Beyond `Emergency' and `Exceptionality' - An Australian Case StudyJudith Bessant and Rob Watts
7. Who is a Child? The Politics of Human Rights, the Convention on the Right of the Child (CRC), and Child Marriage in NigeriaOlabanji Akinola
8. Forcibly Sterilized: Peru's Indigenous Women and the Battle for RightsNusta Carranza Ko
9. Politicization of Rights-based Development and Marginalization of Human Rights from Below: The Case of Maternal Health Rights in IndiaSurma Das
Part III: Social Contestation and the Broadening of Human Rights' Meanings
10. Indigenous Peoples in Chile: Contesting Violence, Building New Meanings for Rights and DemocracyMarie-Christine Doran
11. Improving HIV/AIDS Drugs Access: A Genealogy of the Human Right to Health From BelowGabriel Blouin-Genest and Mikey Erb
12. Internet Access as Human Right: A Dystopian Critique from the Occupied Palestinian TerritoryFabio Cristiano
13. Conclusion: Changing Human Right Practices and the Battlefields of World PoliticsGabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot