Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice is an edited collection that brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines. Within the academic sphere, this book will garner interest from scholars who are invested in human rights as a field of study, as well as those who research and are engaged in the praxis of human rights. Referring to the historical and cross-cultural study of human rights, the volume engages with disciplinary debates in political philosophy, gender and women’s studies, Global South/Third World studies, international relations, psychology, and anthropology.
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- Engages with diverse methodologies including oral history, theoretical and discourse analysis, ethnography, and literary and cinema studies.
- Addresses critical academic gaps on interdisciplinary and praxis-based approaches to human rights.
- Draws from case studies in various contexts, including Bangladesh, Colombia, Haiti, India, Mexico, Palestine, Sudan, Australia, and the United States.
- Demonstrates the multifaceted landscape of human rights and the multiple forces that affect it.
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For students who will go on to become researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and activists, this collection of essays will demonstrate the multifaceted landscape of human rights and the multiple forces (philosophical, political, cultural, economic, historical) that affect it.
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