Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series editors' preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: reconsidering human rights from below
- 2 Sites of rights resistance
- 3 Freedom from want revisited from a local perspective: evolution and challenges ahead
- 4 Relevance of human rights in the glocal space of politics: how to enlarge democratic practice beyond state boundaries and build up a peaceful world order
- 5 The local relevance of human rights: a methodological approach
- 6 Ensuring compliance with decisions by international and regional human rights bodies: the case of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- 7 Building rights-based health movements: lessons from the Peruvian experience
- 8 Defining human rights when economic interests are high: the case of the western Shoshone
- 9 Struggling to localise human rights: the experience of indigenous peoples in Chile
- 10 Enforcing environmental rights under Nigeria's 1999 Constitution: the localisation of human rights in the Niger Delta region
- 11 Conflict resolution through cultural rights and cultural wrongs: the Kosovo example
- 12 Epilogue: widening the perspective on the local relevance of human rights
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series editors' preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: reconsidering human rights from below
- 2 Sites of rights resistance
- 3 Freedom from want revisited from a local perspective: evolution and challenges ahead
- 4 Relevance of human rights in the glocal space of politics: how to enlarge democratic practice beyond state boundaries and build up a peaceful world order
- 5 The local relevance of human rights: a methodological approach
- 6 Ensuring compliance with decisions by international and regional human rights bodies: the case of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- 7 Building rights-based health movements: lessons from the Peruvian experience
- 8 Defining human rights when economic interests are high: the case of the western Shoshone
- 9 Struggling to localise human rights: the experience of indigenous peoples in Chile
- 10 Enforcing environmental rights under Nigeria's 1999 Constitution: the localisation of human rights in the Niger Delta region
- 11 Conflict resolution through cultural rights and cultural wrongs: the Kosovo example
- 12 Epilogue: widening the perspective on the local relevance of human rights
- Index
Summary
Preface
This present book is part of an ongoing and open-ended collaborative research project among a number of European universities and research partners in developing countries and coordinated by the Law and Development Research Group at the University of Antwerp. The intention of the project is to complement the current book with a number of case studies based on field research, using the methodology and building on the findings presented in the present volume.
As part of the project an inaugural expert seminar was organised in April 2007. This was followed by an international conference at Antwerp University in October 2008. The conference included a call for papers identifying the research questions referred to in the ‘Introduction’. Initial drafts of some of the chapters included were presented at the Antwerp conference. Subsequently the editors engaged in an intensive dialogue with the authors on their papers, and also invited additional authors to contribute to the book on themes not originally covered.
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- The Local Relevance of Human Rights , pp. xvii - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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