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050 00 $aJC571$b.Q465 2009
082 00 $a323$222
100 1 $aQuataert, Jean H.$q(Jean Helen),$d1945-
245 10 $aAdvocating dignity :$bhuman rights mobilizations in global politics /$cJean H. Quataert.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$cc2009.
300 $axiii, 355 p. :$bmaps, charts ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aPennsylvania studies in human rights
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tThe New Moral Order: Between Human Dignity and Territorial Sovereignty -- $g1.$tRaising the Bar, 1900-1949 -- $gPt. I.$tAn Emerging Human Rights Orthodoxy: The First Round -- $g2.$tCold War Politics and Human Rights Publics: The International Antiapartheid and Soviet Dissident Movements, 1952-90 -- $g3.$tMothers' Courage and U.N. Monitoring of Disappearance, 1973-83 -- $gPt. II.$tThe Debate Continues: Critics and New Mechanisms -- $g4.$tThe Gender Factor since the 1970s: Universality and the Private Sphere -- $g5.$tCitizenship, Socioeconomic Rights, and the Courts in the Age of Transnational Migrations -- $gPt. III.$tHuman Rights at a Crossroads: Wars, Crimes, and Priorities -- $g6.$tEthnic Violence, Humanitarian Intervention, and Criminal Accountability in the 1990s -- $g7.$tSeptember 2001 and History -- $tConclusion: Making a Difference.
520 1 $a"In Advocating Dignity, Jean H. Quataert explores the emergence, development, and impact of the human rights revolution following World War II. Intertwining popular local and national mobilizations for rights with ongoing developments of a formal international system of rights monitoring in the United Nations, Quataert argues that human rights advocacy networks have been a vital dimension of international political developments since 1945." "Recalling the popular slogan "think globally, act locally," Quataert contends that postwar human rights have been significantly shaped by the efforts of people at the grassroots. She shows that human rights politics are constituted by local agencies, actions, and contingencies and reinforced by transnational linkages in international society. The UN system is continuously reinvigorated and strengthened by its ties to local individuals, organizations, and groups engaged in day-to-day rights advocacy. This daily work, in turn, is supported by the ongoing activities from above." "Drawing widely from many fields of inquiry, including legal studies, philosophy, international relations theory, political science, and gender history, Advocating Dignity is an innovative study that narrates the hopes and bitter struggles that have altered the course of international and domestic relations over the past sixty years."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHuman rights.
650 0 $aCitizenship.
650 0 $aEthnic conflict.
830 0 $aPennsylvania studies in human rights.
852 00 $bleh$hJC571$i.Q465 2009