The Social Practice of Human Rights (eBook)

The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space between. In capturing this cutting edge research program, the volume proposes a perspective that motivates critical self-reflection of the strategies that drive communities dedicated to the advocacy and implementation of human rights.

Anthony Clark Arend, Georgetown University, USA Alexandra Cosima Budabin, University of Dayton, USA Barbara A. Frey, J.D., University of Minnesota, USA Natalie Florea Hudson, University of Dayton, USA Kristi Heather Kenyon, Dalhousie University, Canada Matthew Krain, the College of Wooster, USA Mark P. Lagon, President of Freedom House, USA Michele Leiby, the College of Wooster, USA Kyla McEntire, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, USA Paul Nelson, University of Pittsburgh, USA Joel R. Pruce, the University of Dayton, USA Alex de Waal, Tufts University, USA Carrie Booth Walling, Albion College, USA

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The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between. The volume brings together cutting-edge chapters that together set a new agenda for research, grounded in the practice of critical self-reflection on the strategies that drive communities dedicated to the advocacy and implementation of human rights. The social practice of human rights takes place not in front of a judge, but in the streets and alleys, in the backrooms and out-of-the-way places where change occurs. Contributors to this volume investigate the contexts and efforts of activists and professionals devoted to promoting human rights norms. This research takes as its subject the organizations and movements that shoulder the burden of improving respect for human dignity. It argues that through a constructive critique of these patterns and practices, scholarship can have a positive impact on the political world.