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Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights
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Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries
Human Rights and the Private Sphere Volume 2
Human Rights and the Private Sphere Volume 3
Edited by Pauline Stoltz, Malmö University, Sweden, Marina Svensson, Lund University, Sweden, Sun Zhongxin, Fudan University, China and Qi Wang, University of Oslo, Norway Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics This book examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality in Asia and Europe, raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights. Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Rights and Responsibilities in a Gendered World Pauline Stoltz and Marina Svensson Part 1: Controversies and Challenges 2. Introduction to Part 1 Pauline Stoltz 3. ‘It is the People who Serve the Government’: Interview with Ai Xiaoming Cecilia Milwertz 4. ‘Today all the Discussions and all the Conflicts are about Intersectionality’: Interview with Tiina Rosenberg Pauline Stoltz and Marina Svensson 5. Women’s Rights in China: Moving Beyond the Limits of Law Sharon Hom 6. Gender, Diversity and Trans-National Citizenship Birte Siim Part 2: Case studies 7. Introduction to Part 2 Pauline Stoltz 8. Speaking Out and Space Making: The Emergence of Gay Identities and Communities in China Zhongxin Sun 9. Privileged Irresponsibility, Structural Responsibility and Moral Contradictions among Employers in the EU Domestic Work Sector Anna Gavanas 10. The Safety and Health of Female Migrant Workers in China Tan Shen 11. National Implementation of Human Rights: A Threat to Representative Democracy? Hege Skjeie 12. Gender Equality and Human Rights: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and China Liu Huawen 13. Globalization, Diaspora Politics and Gender: Muslims in Sweden Catarina Kinnvall
A Comparative Study Edited by Jörg Fedtke, Tulane University, USA and Dawn Oliver, University College London, UK Series: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law This book is a companion volume to Human Rights and the Private Sphere: A Comparative Study (2007), which analysed the effect of human rights on private relationships in a range of democratic jurisdictions around the world. This book looks at a number of additional important jurisdictions in self-contained chapters which describe the wider constitutional background of each system, the relevant national human rights regime, the influence of any international human rights instruments, the judicial enforcement of human rights, and the effect of human rights thinking in the private sphere. The book includes chapters on countries such as China, Indonesia, Japan, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Cameroon, Namibia, Nigeria and Zambia, seeking to discover whether and, if so, how and to what extent human rights thinking has moved beyond its traditional state-individual agenda in the various legal systems.
A Comparative Study Edited by Jörg Fedtke, Tulane University, USA and Dawn Oliver, University College London, UK Series: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law This book is a companion volume to Human Rights and the Private Sphere: A Comparative Study Volumes 1 and 2, which analyses the effect of human rights on private relationships in a range of democratic jurisdictions around the world. This book looks at a number of additional important jurisdictions. This book does not just extend the geographical reach of the first two volumes but also addresses a number of specific questions which the particular experience of these new jurisdictions may help to answer. These additional lines of inquiry include the influence of religion; the question whether notions of human rights protection can affect private relationships even in an authoritarian public law environment; whether local systems of customary law fulfil similar functions as modern constitutional guarantees; and how private sphere protection develops in systems experiencing not only rapid constitutional changes but also a fundamental shift in their underlying societal paradigm.
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Human Rights in the South Pacific
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Challenges and Changes
Sovereignty, Human Rights and Global Order
Sue Farran, University of Dundee, UK
Sam Adelman, University of Warwick, UK
This book looks at the challenges and contemporary issues raised by human rights in the island countries of the South West Pacific which have come under the influence of the common law – where the legal systems are complex and perceptions of rights varies widely.
Drawing on a wide range of resources to present a contemporary and evolving picture of human rights in the island states of the South Pacific region, the book considers the human rights aspects of constitutions, legal institutions and structures, social organisation, culture and custom, tradition and change. The materials provide legal, historical, political, social and cultural insights into the lived experience of human rights in the region supported by illustrative material from case-law, media reports, and policy documents. The book also locates the human rights concerns of Pacific islanders firmly within the wider theoretical and international domain while at the same time maintaining focus on the importance of the unique identity of Pacific island nations and people. Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The Region of the Pacific 2. Rights and the Laws That Give Effect to Them 3. Theories and Approaches to Human Rights 4. Fundamental Rights and Questions of Property 5. Social Ordering: Custom and Equality 6. Freedom from Discrimination 7. Rights Advocacy and Enforcement 8. Taking Rights Forward 2009: 234 x 156: 368pp Hb: 978-1-84472-109-2: £95.00 eBook: 978-0-203-88268-9 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781844721092
Sovereignty, Human Rights and Global Order addresses the question of whether sovereignty is an instrument of, or an impediment to, cosmopolitan visions of global governance. Sovereignty is an object of desire and the stuff of nightmares. It is a symbol of self-determination and national identity and the biggest violator of human rights; the source of law and order, but also of unspeakable violence. Sovereignty is the biggest unsolved problem of modernity. And the central question addressed by this book is whether it is an inherently negative power that must be destroyed, or at least circumscribed, or an essential bulwark against the injustices of globalization, as well as global risks like economic crises and climate change. Why does sovereignty remain such a central organising principle of political life, at a time when it is supposedly being decentred and deterritorialised? Why is it the only form of power that ’legitimately’ monopolises violence? And to what extent should sovereignty be the object of political struggle? Informed by Michel Foucault’s argument that sovereignty, the right to let live, was superseded by biopower, the capacity to let die, Sam Adelman offers a sustained examination of the contemporary phenomenon of sovereignty, arguing that it is only in overcoming the sovereign capacity to condone unnatural death that the possibility of an alternative, and human rights based, global order lies. Selected Contents: Chapter 1: The Unsolved Problem of Modernity Part 1: ’Take Life or Let Live’ Chapter 2: The Topology of Sovereignty Chapter 3: Sovereignty Lurking Chapter 4: The Unexceptional Exception Part 2: ’Make Live or Let Die’ Chapter 5: Alternative Paradigms of Good and Evil? – Human Rights and Sovereignty Chapter 6: Sovereignty Redeemed? The Power to ‘Make Live’ Chapter 7: The End of Sovereignty? January 2011: 234 x 156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-58119-6: £75.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415581196
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