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040 $aWU/DLC$beng$cWU$erda$dDLC
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050 00 $aJC571$b.H769684 2014
082 00 $a323$223
245 04 $aThe human rights paradox :$buniversality and its discontents /$cedited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus.
264 1 $aMadison, Wisconsin :$bThe University of Wisconsin Press,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $avi, 266 p. ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCritical human rights
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction. Embracing paradox: human rights in a global age / Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus -- Part I. Who makes human rights? -- Human rights history from the ground up: the case of East Timor / Geoff Robinson -- Rights on display: museums and human rights claims / Bridget Conley-Zilkic -- Civilian agency in times of crisis: lessons from Burundi / Meghan Foster Lynch -- Part II. Interrogating classic concepts -- Consulting survivors: evidence from Cambodia, northern Uganda, and other countries affected by mass violence / Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham -- "Memoria, verdad y justicia": the terrain of post-dictatorship social reconstruction and the struggle for human rights in Argentina / Noa Vaisman -- Rethinking transitional justice: reflections on the paradoxes of accountability efforts in Peru / Jo-Marie Burt -- Part III. New horizons -- The aporias of new technologies for human rights activism / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- The human right to water in rural India: promises and challenges / Philippe Cullet -- A very promising species: from Hobbes to the human right to water / Richard P. Hiskes.
650 0 $aHuman rights.
650 0 $aHuman rights$xHistory.
650 0 $aHuman rights advocacy.
700 1 $aStern, Steve J.,$d1951-$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aStraus, Scott,$d1970-$eeditor of compilation.
830 0 $aCritical human rights.