Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights

History, Politics, Practice
2. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-10964-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice examines human rights through interdisciplinary, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives, foregrounding both scholarship and practice.

Bringing together contributions from fields including political philosophy, gender and women’s studies, Global South/Third World studies, international relations, psychology, and anthropology, the volume explores human rights through diverse methodologies such as oral history, discourse and theoretical analysis, ethnography, and literary and cinema studies. It moves beyond predominantly legalistic frameworks to highlight interdisciplinary and praxis-based approaches, drawing on case studies from Bangladesh, Colombia, Haiti, India, Mexico, Palestine, Sudan, South Africa, Australia, and the United States. This expanded second edition covers regions like West Asia, the Niger Delta, the Caribbean, and juridical, artistic, autoethnographic, activist, environmental, and visual interrogations of human rights horizons.

This book is ideal for students, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and activists interested in human rights studies. It is particularly relevant for those exploring the philosophical, political, cultural, economic, and historical forces that shape human rights across global contexts.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Srikanth, Rajini

Chowdhury, Elora Halim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Rajini Srikanth is Dean of Faculty and Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Her research interests span American Studies, Asian American Studies, literature and the political imagination, human rights, the role of the humanities in climate justice and public health, and South Africa.

Elora Halim Chowdhury is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Director of the Minor in Human Rights at University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Her research interests include transnational feminisms, gender violence, human rights narrative and film with an emphasis on South Asia.