The Human Rights Enterprise: Political Sociology, State Power, and Social Movements

Armaline, William T.; Glasberg, Davita S.; Purkayastha, Bandana

ISBN 10: 0745663710 / ISBN 13: 9780745663715

Editore: Polity Press, 2015

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• Titolo: The Human Rights Enterprise: Political Sociology, State Power, and Social Movements
• Editore: Polity Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0745663710
• ISBN 13: 9780745663715
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket
• Peso: 0,65 libbre

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Why do powerful states like the US, the UK, China, and Russia repeatedly fail to meet their international legal obligations as defined by human rights instruments? How does global capitalism affect states’ ability to implement human rights, particularly in the context of global recession, state austerity, perpetual war, and environmental crisis? How are political and civil rights undermined as part of moves to impose security and surveillance regimes?  This book presents a framework for understanding human rights as a terrain of struggle over power between states, private interests, and organized, “bottom-up” social movements. The authors develop a critical sociology of human rights, focusing on the concept of the human rights enterprise: the process through which rights are defined and realized. While states are designated arbiters of human rights according to human rights instruments, they do not exist in a vacuum. Political sociology helps us to understand how global neoliberalism and powerful non-governmental actors (particularly economic actors such as corporations and financial institutions) deeply affect states’ ability and likelihood to enforce human rights standards. This book offers keen insights for understanding rights claims, and the institutionalization of, access to, and restrictions on human rights. It will be invaluable to human rights advocates, and undergraduate and graduate students across the social sciences.

Informazioni sull?autore

William T. Armaline is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at San José State University.

Davita Silfen Glasberg is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.

Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the American Sociological Association’s representative to the International Sociological Association (2014-2018).