Closing the rights gap : from human rights to social transformation /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
©2015
Description:1 online resource (xxix, 361 pages : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11754779
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:From human rights to social transformation
Other authors / contributors:Haglund, LaDawn, 1968- editor.
Stryker, Robin, editor.
ISBN:9780520958920
0520958926
9780520283091
0520283090
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"'Rights' language and practices have been used increasingly in the last decade to address conditions of economic, social, and cultural marginalization. It is still unclear, however, whether such efforts have been effective at promoting transformative social change. Have rights - as embodied in constitutions, statutory and judicial law, international conventions, resolutions, and treaties - fostered demonstrative improvements in the lives of the excluded? When, where, how, and under what conditions? This volume explores these questions through a systematic comparison of the mechanisms, actors, and pathways (MAPs) operating in a diversity of cases, analyzed by established scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. The MAPs comparative approach provides insights into the conditions under which, and institutions through which, rights 'on the books' are more or less effectively translated into substantive rights realization. We suggest multiple pathways in which litigation may combine with non-legal mechanisms and strategies, including institutionalized and non-institutionalized politics and global and local networks and advocacy. The volume is unique in its synthesis and advancement of parallel issues and debates across different disciplines and geographic regions; it likewise brings into dialogue scholars of economic, social and cultural rights with the scholarship on civil and political rights. These cross-fertilizations allow us to conclude by proposing a series of testable hypotheses about how economic and social rights might be realized, as well as an agenda for future research to broaden and deepen empirical integration and theoretical synthesis in ways that can facilitate human rights realization worldwide."--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Print version: Closing the rights gap 9780520283091

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Ii 4500
001 11754779
005 20210426223406.4
006 m o d
007 cr cnu---unuuu
008 150209t20152015caua ob 001 0 eng d
010 |z  2014023209 
019 |a 967258793  |a 1086476817  |a 1162210187 
020 |a 9780520958920  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |a 0520958926  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |z 9780520283091  |q (cloth ;  |q alk. paper) 
020 |z 0520283090  |q (cloth ;  |q alk. paper) 
035 |a (OCoLC)903016412  |z (OCoLC)967258793  |z (OCoLC)1086476817  |z (OCoLC)1162210187 
035 9 |a (OCLCCM-CC)903016412 
037 |a 22573/ctt12m04f4  |b JSTOR 
037 |a 7FBABD2B-15E6-4A08-8285-43BEFCD39AB5  |b OverDrive, Inc.  |n http://www.overdrive.com 
040 |a N$T  |b eng  |e rda  |e pn  |c N$T  |d YDXCP  |d N$T  |d E7B  |d DEBSZ  |d OCLCF  |d JSTOR  |d CDX  |d TEFOD  |d OCLCA  |d OSU  |d P@U  |d OCL  |d TEFOD  |d EBLCP  |d OCLCQ  |d KSU  |d OCLCQ  |d IDB  |d YDX  |d MERUC  |d IOG  |d EZ9  |d MERER  |d OCLCQ  |d TXC  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d UKOUP  |d DGU  |d OTZ  |d LVT  |d G3B  |d IGB  |d STF  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCA  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCA  |d LEAUB  |d DEGRU  |d UKSSU  |d VLY 
049 |a MAIN 
050 4 |a JC571  |b .C61444 2015eb 
072 7 |a POL  |x 004000  |2 bisacsh 
072 7 |a POL  |x 035010  |2 bisacsh 
072 7 |a SOC026000  |2 bisacsh 
245 0 0 |a Closing the rights gap :  |b from human rights to social transformation /  |c edited by LaDawn Haglund and Robin Stryker. 
246 3 |a From human rights to social transformation 
264 1 |a Oakland, California :  |b University of California Press,  |c [2015] 
264 4 |c ©2015 
300 |a 1 online resource (xxix, 361 pages :  |b illustrations 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
347 |a data file  |2 rda 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: making sense of the multiple and complex pathways by which human rights are realized / LaDawn Haglund and Robin Stryker -- Do non-human rights regimes undermine the achievement of economic and social rights? / M. Rodwan Abouharb, David l. Cingranelli, and Mikhail Filippov -- Linking law and economics : translating economic and social human rights norms into public policy / William F. Felice -- Advances and ongoing challenges in the protection of indigenous peoples' rights within the inter-American system and the United Nations special procedures system / Leonardo J. Alvarado -- The impact of legal strategies for claiming economic and social rights / Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks -- The role of human rights law in protecting environmental rights in South Asia / Sumudu Atapattu -- The morality of law : the case against deportation of settled immigrants / Doris Marie Provine -- Social movements and the expansion of economic and social human rights advocacy among international NGOs / Paul J. Nelson -- The challenge of ensuring food security : global perspectives and evidence from India / Shareen Hertel and Susan Randolph -- Achieving rights to land, water and health in post-apartheid South Africa / Heinz Klug -- Social accountability in the World Bank : how does it overlap with human and ESCR rights? / Hans-Otto Sano -- Making the principle of progressive realization operational : the SERF index, an index for monitoring state fulfillment of economic and social rights obligations / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, and Susan Randolph -- Deepening our understanding of rights realization through disaggregation and mapping: integrating census data and participatory GIS / Rimjhim Aggarwal and Ladawn Haglund -- Studying courts in context : the role of non-judicial institutional and socio-political realities / Siri Gloppen -- Conclusion: emerging possibilities for social transformation / Robin Stryker and LaDawn Haglund. 
520 |a "'Rights' language and practices have been used increasingly in the last decade to address conditions of economic, social, and cultural marginalization. It is still unclear, however, whether such efforts have been effective at promoting transformative social change. Have rights - as embodied in constitutions, statutory and judicial law, international conventions, resolutions, and treaties - fostered demonstrative improvements in the lives of the excluded? When, where, how, and under what conditions? This volume explores these questions through a systematic comparison of the mechanisms, actors, and pathways (MAPs) operating in a diversity of cases, analyzed by established scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. The MAPs comparative approach provides insights into the conditions under which, and institutions through which, rights 'on the books' are more or less effectively translated into substantive rights realization. We suggest multiple pathways in which litigation may combine with non-legal mechanisms and strategies, including institutionalized and non-institutionalized politics and global and local networks and advocacy. The volume is unique in its synthesis and advancement of parallel issues and debates across different disciplines and geographic regions; it likewise brings into dialogue scholars of economic, social and cultural rights with the scholarship on civil and political rights. These cross-fertilizations allow us to conclude by proposing a series of testable hypotheses about how economic and social rights might be realized, as well as an agenda for future research to broaden and deepen empirical integration and theoretical synthesis in ways that can facilitate human rights realization worldwide."--Provided by publisher. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
546 |a English. 
630 0 0 |a International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights  |d (1966 December 16)  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81048169 
630 0 7 |a International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966 December 16)  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01773889 
650 0 |a Human rights and globalization.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008002935 
650 0 |a Social justice.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123969 
650 0 |a Human rights.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026379 
650 7 |a POLITICAL SCIENCE  |x Political Freedom & Security  |x Civil Rights.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a POLITICAL SCIENCE  |x Political Freedom & Security  |x Human Rights.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Sociology  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Human rights.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00963285 
650 7 |a Human rights and globalization.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01745555 
650 7 |a Social justice.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01122603 
650 7 |a Menschenrecht  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Sozialer Wandel  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Soziale Gerechtigkeit  |2 gnd  |0 http://d-nb.info/gnd/4236433-4 
650 7 |a Social rättvisa.  |2 sao 
650 7 |a Mänskliga rättigheter.  |2 sao 
655 4 |a Electronic books. 
700 1 |a Haglund, LaDawn,  |d 1968-  |e editor.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010013043 
700 1 |a Stryker, Robin,  |e editor. 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |t Closing the rights gap  |z 9780520283091  |w (DLC) 2014023209  |w (OCoLC)885226118 
903 |a HeVa 
929 |a oclccm 
999 f f |i 68504ae9-c8ab-5bc3-9243-060926c55d48  |s c2f3ebdd-8113-507d-9ed1-57528d8e1c10 
928 |t Library of Congress classification  |a JC571 .C61444 2015eb  |l Online  |c UC-FullText  |u https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=e000xna&AN=948299  |z eBooks on EBSCOhost  |g ebooks  |i 12422192