Chapter 1: The Practice Turn In Human Rights Research / Joel R. Pruce -- Part I: Constructive Critique -- Chapter 2: Rethinking Activism: Social Movements and the State over the Longue Duree / Alex De Waal -- Chapter 3: How To Ask People For Change: Examining Peoples' Willingness to Donate To Human Rights Campaigns / Kyla McEntire, Michele Leiby, and Matthew Krain -- Chapter 4: Documentarian, Witness, And Organizer: Exploring Celebrity Roles in Human Rights Media Advocacy / Alexandra Cosima Budabin -- Part II: Grassroots Sites of Practice -- Chapter 5: The Human Right To Water And Advocacy For Urban Water Supply: After the Privatization Struggles / Paul Nelson -- Chapter 6: Localizing the Global/Globalizing the Local: Reconciling Botho and Human Rights in Botswana / Kristi Heather Kenyon -- Chapter 7: Uneven Ground: Asymmetries Of Power In Human Rights Advocacy In Mexico / Barbara A. Frey -- Part III: Institutional Sites of Practices -- Chapter 8: The UN Security Council and the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights / Carrie Booth Walling -- Chapter 9: The Social Practice Of Securitizing Women's Rights and Gender Equality: 1325 Fifteen Years On / Natalie Florae Hudson -- Chapter 10: Constructing a Dialogue on Human Dignity: The Role for Global Institutions / Mark P. Lagon and Anthony Clark Arend.
Summary:
"The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between. In capturing this cutting edge research program, the volume proposes a perspective that motivates critical self-reflection of the strategies that drive communities dedicated to the advocacy and implementation of human rights"-- Provided by publisher.
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