Contesting World Order?: Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements

Human Rights

Contesting World Order?: Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements

By Joe Wills
Cambridge University Press December 2018

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9781316628249
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
December 2018
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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What do equality, dignity and rights mean in a world where eight men own as much wealth as half the world's population? Contesting World Order? Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements examines how global justice movements have engaged the language of socioeconomic rights to contest global institutional structures and rules responsible for contributing to the persistence of severe poverty. Drawing upon perspectives from critical international relations studies and the activities of global justice movements, this book evaluates the 'counter-hegemonic' potential of socioeconomic rights discourse and its capacity to contribute towards an alternative to the prevailing neo-liberal 'common sense' of global governance.

  • Appealing to academics, practitioners and activists interested in the contribution that socioeconomic rights can make to global justice causes
  • Three case studies are used to ground the analysis
  • Allows readers to explore international human rights law through a new lens

Table of Contents

1. Power, hegemony and world order
2. Neo-liberal globalisation and socioeconomic rights: an overview
3. Food security vs food sovereignty: the contestation of the meaning of the right to food under international law
4. Intellectual property, the right to health and the global access to medicines campaign
5. A commodity or a right? Evoking the human right to water to challenge neo-liberal water governance.
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