The Routledge History of Human Rights

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08966-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 690 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1170 g

Reihe: Routledge Histories

The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human rights themes of the past 150 years.

The volume is made up of 34 original contributions. It opens with the emergence of a "new internationalism" in the mid-nineteenth century, examines the interwar, League of Nations, and the United Nations eras of human rights and decolonization, and ends with the serious challenges for rights norms, laws, institutions, and multilateral cooperation in the national security world after 9/11. These essays provide a big picture of the strategic, political, and changing nature of human rights work in the past and into the present day, and reveal the contingent nature of historical developments. Highlighting local, national, and non-Western voices and struggles, the volume contributes to overcoming Eurocentric biases that burden human rights histories and studies of international law. It analyzes regions and organizations that are often overlooked. The volume thus offers readers a new and broader perspective on the subject.

International in coverage and containing cutting-edge interpretations, the volume provides an overview of major themes and suggestions for future research. This is the perfect book for those interested in social justice, grass roots activism, and international politics and society.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quataert, Jean

Wildenthal, Lora

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: An Open-Ended and Contingent History of Human RightsPart 1. The New Internationalism2. John Anderson - Slave, Refugee, and Freedom Fighter: A Human Rights Campaign in the Age of Empire3. Investigating and Ameliorating Atrocities in the Nineteenth Century: International Commissions of Inquiry in the Balkans (1876-1880)4. Reclaiming Congo Reform for the History of Human Rights5. The Red Cross and the Laws of War, 1863-1949: International Rights Activism before Human RightsPart 2. The Interwar Era: The League of Nations6. United in their Quest for Peace? Transnational Women Activists between the World Wars 7. The Rights of Man and Sex Equality: International Human Rights Discourses in the 1930sPart 3. The Formative UN EraA. UN Treaty Making8. Social and Economic Rights: The Struggle for Equivalent Protection9. Islam and UN Human Rights Treaty Ratification in the Middle East: The Impact of International Law on Diplomacy10. When the War Came: The Child Rights Convention and the Conflation of Human Rights and the Laws of WarB. Decolonization11. Why Then Call It the Declaration of Human Rights? The Failures of Universal Human Rights in Colonial Africa’s Internationally Supervised Territories12. Decolonization, Development, and Identity: The Evolution of the Anticolonial Human Rights Critique, 1948-197813. When You are Weak, You Have to Stick to Principles: Botswana and Anti-Colonialism in Human Rights HistoryC. Socialist and Capitalist Versions of Human Rights14. The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Gender of Economic Rights15. Human Rights Movements and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Explaining the Peaceful Revolution of 198916. Human Rights in China:

Über Autor(innen)

Jean H. Quataert is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at Binghamton University, USA and co-editor of the Journal of Women’s History (2010–20). She has published many books and articles, including Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilization in Global Politics (2009) and "A New Look at International Law: Gendering the Practices of Humanitarian Medicine in Europe’s ‘Small Wars,’ 1879–1907," Human Rights Quarterly, 2018, vol. 40, no. 3, 547–69.

Lora Wildenthal is John Antony Weir Professor of History and Associate Dean of Humanities at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA. She is the author of German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 (2001) and The Language of Human Rights in West Germany (2013).