Human Rights on the Edge

Auteur

Heather Smith-Cannoy is a Political Scientist at Arizona State University, where she directs the Global Human Rights Hub and the undergraduate degree program on Social Justice and Human Rights. She has published three books, and 15 articles and book chapters on human rights, international law, sex trafficking and gender.

Tricia Redeker Hepner is a Political and Legal Anthropologist at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on migration and displacement, transnationalism, human rights, transitional justice, militarism, and conflict/peace. She has published four books and more than twenty peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters. She directs ASU's Master's Program in Social Justice and Human Rights.

Texte du rabat

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human rights law and practice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights.

Contenu

ForewordThe future of human rights: A research agenda IntroductionHuman rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice 1. NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses 2. New frontiers in international human rights: Actionable nonactionables and the (non)performance of perpetual becoming 3. Epistemes of human rights in Kashmir: Paradoxes of universality and particularity 4. Legal exhaustion and the crisis of human rights: Tracing legal mobilization against sexual violence and torture of Kurdish women in state custody in Turkey since the 1990s 5. The boundaries of religion in international human rights law 6. Disentangling gendered peace: Observing gendered peace in policy 7. The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage