Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Grewal, Kiran Kaur

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• The Socio-Political Practice of Human Rights, 2017, p.1-14

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the operation of human rights in practice in three post-war sites: Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka. Human rights have become a ubiquitous feature of contemporary social and political discourse. The book examines how the language of human rights enters particular social and political spaces, is adopted, adapted, subverted and/or rejected, and what this contributes to movements for social justice. It employs multi-site ethnography as the dominant methodology: a combination of qualitative methods applied to the study of different locales that aims to examine the operations of global sociolegal processes shaping events in the sites. The book shows that the manner in which the discourse of human rights is acquired and utilised as a political tool should in fact be seen as constitutive of human rights.