Contracting human rights [electronic resource] : crisis, accountability, and opportunity / edited by Alison Brysk (Chair, Global Studies Department, Mellichamp Chair of Global Governance, University of California, Santa Barbara), and Michael Stohl (Director, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, Professor of Communication, Political Science and Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, US)
The securitization that accompanied many national responses after 11 September 2001, along with the shortfalls of neo-liberalism, created waves of opposition to the growth of the human rights regime. By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human...
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: contracting human rights / Alison Brysk
- Part I Gaps
- 2. Contracting the refugee regime: the global citizenship gap / Alison Brysk
- 3. Has the occupation occupied Israel? / Gershon Shafir
- 4. Expanding extractive industries, contracting indigenous rights? Gains, setbacks and missed opportunities in Latin America / Claire Wright
- 5. The bottom two billion: the global expansion of urban slums and second-class citizenship / Natasha Bennett
- Part II Backlash
- 6. The human rights costs of NGOs' naming and shaming campaigns / Clair Apodaca
- 7. Perils of success: backlash and resistance to LGBT rights in domestic and international politics / Phillip M. Ayoub
- 8. Human rights and democracy promotion in times of contraction: EU human rights and democratization policies in Egypt / Felipe Gómez Isa
- 9. From lawless to secret law: the United States, the CIA, and extra-judicial killings / Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
- Part III Accountability
- 10. Whither accountability? Counterterrorism and human rights at the United Nations Security Council / George Andreopoulos
- 11. Backlash and international human rights courts / Wayne Sandholtz, Yining Bei, and Kayla Caldwell
- 12. Retreat or retrenchment? An analysis of the International Criminal Court's failure to prosecute presidents / Kirsten Ainley
- 13. Searching for accountability of the private sector: civil liability of corporations for trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation in the European context / Julia Planitzer, Nora Katona, Barbara Linder, Karin Lukas
- Part IV Opportunities
- 14. Business and human rights: exploring the limits of an expanding agenda on corporate responsibility / Anne Vestergaard and Michael Etter
- 15. Digital media and human rights: Loomio, Statistics New Zealand, and gender identity / Cynthia Stohl, Michael Stohl and Shiv Ganesh
- 16. Beyond global vs. local: Islam, feminism, and women's rights in Morocco / Jesilyn Faust
- 17. Contesting the citizenship gap: Advocacy, core rights, and women's rights reform / Feryal M. Cherif
- 18. Conclusion
- From hope to fear in the millennium: Human rights in an age of backlash / Michael Stohl
- Index.