Global Urban Justice

Barbara Oomen holds a Chair in the Sociology of Rights at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is also Dean of University College Roosevelt, a liberal arts and sciences college in Middelburg. Martha F. Davis is a professor at the School of Law, Northeastern University, Boston, where she also serves as co-director of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and as faculty director of the NuLawLab. Michele Grigolo is a lecturer in sociology at Nottingham Trent University. He is co-convenor of the Sociology of Rights Study Group of the British Sociological Association.

1. Introduction: the promise and challenges of human rights cities Barbara Oomen; Part I. Actors and their Shifting Capacities: 2. Cities, human rights and accountability: the United States experience Martha F. Davis; 3. Making human rights the talk of the town: civil society and human rights cities, a case study of the Netherlands Esther van den Berg; 4. Human rights at a local level: the Montréal experience Benoît Frate; 5. From principles to practice: the role of US mayors in advancing human rights JoAnn Kamuf Ward; Part II. Renegotiating Rights in the Urban Space: 6. Human rights in the city and the right to the city: two different paradigms confronting urbanisation Eva García Chueca; 7. Defying the demand to 'go home': from human rights cities to the urbanisation of human rights Jonathan Darling; 8. Contested advocacy: negotiating between rights and reciprocity in Nima and Maamobi, Ghana Catherine Buerger; 9. Localising the human right to water into the city context: insights from domestic litigation Natalya Pestova; Part III. Implementing Human Rights Cities: 10. Re-imagining human rights practice through the city: a case study of York (UK) Emily Graham, Paul Gready, Eric Hoddy and Rachel Pennington; 11. Human rights and the city: obligations, commitments and opportunities Klaus Starl; 12. The recognition of the right to the city in Mexico City: the Charter Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez; 13. In a state of becoming a human rights city: the case of Eugene, Oregon Kenneth J. Neubeck; Part IV. Conclusions: 14. Human rights cities: challenges and possibilities Cynthia Soohoo; 15. Towards a sociology of the human rights city: focusing on practice Michele Grigolo.