Human Rights as Battlefields

Offers a new conceptual framework to understand human rights in their changing political dimension
Documents key case studies/contexts in which human rights are expressed in terms of political battlefields
Examines the ambivalence and limitations of such theoretical/conceptual apparatus.

Autorentext
Gabriel Blouin-Genest is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA.
**Marie-Christine Doran is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.
**Sylvie Paquerot is Associate Professor of Political and Legal Studies at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Becoming Human Rights Subjects Through New Practices.- Part I The Changing Nature of Human Rights and Their Political Boundaries: New Definitions, Longstanding Debates.- 2. Human Rights As Battlefields: Power Relations, Translations and TransformationsA Theoretical Framework.- 3. The Gender of Human Rights: The French Debate Over les droits de l'Homme.- 4. The Right to Water: The Political Function of Human Rights as an Expression of the Contradictions in Globalization.- 5. Politics of Neutrality, Human Rights and Armed Struggles: The Turkey Example.- Part II Overcoming the Frontiers of Discrimination and Structural Violence: Intersectional Struggles of Human Rights from Below and Transformations of Political Space.- 6. Child Prisoners, Human Rights, and Human Rights Activism: Beyond 'Emergency' and 'Exceptionality'An Australian Case Study.- 7. Who is a Child? The Politics of Human Rights, the Convention on the Right of the Child (CRC), and Child Marriage in Nigeria.- 8. Forcibly Sterilized: Peru's Indigenous Women and the Battle for Rights.- 9. Politicization of Rights-Based Development and Marginalization of Human Rights from Below: The Case of Maternal Health Rights in India.- Part III Social Contestation and the Broadening of HumanRights' Meanings.- 10. Indigenous Peoples in Chile: Contesting Violence, Building New Meanings for Rights and Democracy.- 11. Improving HIV/AIDS Drugs Access: A Genealogy of the Human Right to Health from Below.- 12. Internet Access as Human Right: A Dystopian Critique from the Occupied Palestinian Territory.- 13. Conclusion: Changing Human Right Practices and the Battlefields of World Politics.