The Socio-Political Practice of Human Rights: Between the by Kiran Kaur Grewal

This publication examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interplay among the overseas human rights framework and assorted actors looking political and social switch. proposing distinctive new case experiences from Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Kosovo, it finds the need of social clinical interventions within the box of human rights. the writer exhibits how a shift clear of the world of normative political or criminal idea in the direction of a extra sociological research can provide a greater realizing of either the bounds of present human rights ways and attainable websites of capability.

Considering the varied ways that human rights are enacted and mobilised, The Socio-Political perform of Human Rights engages with significant websites of hysteria and debate, reading the query of even if human rights are common or culturally relative; their courting to sorts of fiscal and political domination; the function of legislations as a mechanism for social swap and the ways that the language of human rights enables or closes websites of radical resistance. by means of situating those debates in particular contexts, this publication concludes by way of featuring new methods of theorizing human rights.

Empirically grounded and providing another framework for realizing the fluid and ambiguous operation of strength in the conception and perform of human rights, this quantity will attract students of sociology, legislation and politics with pursuits in gender, resistance, foreign legislation, human rights and socio-legal discourse.