Demands of Justice - Ann Marie Clark

Demands of Justice

The Creation of a Global Human Rights Practice

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Buch | Softcover
220 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-09726-0 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
Demands of Justice draws on original interviews and the documents of leading advocacy organizations, to show how global appeals for human rights developed. Clark argues that human rights has enriched three facets of justice in the world - a global neighbourhood, political and legal tools, and social justice.
Demands of Justice draws on original interviews and archival research to show how global appeals for human rights began in the 1970s to expand the boundaries of the global neighbourhood and disseminate new arguments about humane concern and law in direct opposition to human rights violations. Turning a justice lens on human rights practice, Clark argues that human rights practice offers tools that enrich three facets of global justice: transnational expressions of simple concern, the political realization of justice through politics and law, and new but still incomplete approaches to social justice. A key case study explores the origins of Amnesty International's well-known Urgent Action alerts for individuals, as well as temporal change in the use of law in such appeals. A second case study, of Oxfam's adoption of rights language, demonstrates the spread of human rights as a primary way of expressing calls for justice in the world.

Ann Marie Clark is a political scientist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She is the author of Diplomacy of Conscience: Amnesty International and Changing International Human Rights Norms (2001) and Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society (2005, with Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Kathryn Hochstetler), and numerous journal articles.

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Human rights advocacy and the demands of justice; 2. Human rights and justice in global politics; 3. Human rights tools in the pursuit of justice; 4. Expanding the global neighborhood: Amnesty International's urgent action; 5. A Human rights culture of argument: The language of care and law in urgent action appeals; 6. 'Together for rights': Oxfam and basic rights in development advocacy; 7. Conclusion; References; Index.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 350 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-009-09726-1 / 1009097261
ISBN-13 978-1-009-09726-0 / 9781009097260
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