Human Rights: Politics and Practice, 2nd Edition

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Comprehensive human rights textbook which takes politics students beyond a legal approach to human rights, combining coverage of core approaches with detailed studies of key issues.
Makes extensive use of case studies to illustrate key points and emphasize the practical and political dynamics of human rights.
Takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing together contributions from political and social scientists, philosophers, lawyers, and policy experts.
Ensures that students are up to date with cutting edge research in a constantly evolving field.
Includes practical chapters and well-received pedagogical features.

New to this edition

A new chapter on feminist and non-western challenges to human rights.
An expanded chapter on measurement introduces cutting edge technologies.
Expanded treatment of controversial issues including group rights and social and economic rights.
More in depth discussion of future directions and challenges for human rights.

Human Rights: Politics and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to human rights that takes students beyond a purely legal perspective to look at theoretical issues and practical approaches. It brings together international experts including political scientists, philosophers, lawyers, and policy-makers, and is up to date with a constantly evolving field.

The second edition sees an expansion of theoretical content, and introduces students to areas of growing importance, including non-western approaches to human rights. It also looks at feminist approaches, and includes more material on group and individual rights. In addition, the book includes more critical perspectives, and there is more material on global civil society and children's human rights. A new concluding chapter charts the possible future development of human rights and ensures that students are up to date.

The book includes carefully considered pedagogical features to aid student learning, and the practical chapters each contain a case study which explores a concrete example in depth.

The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, which enhances student learning and provides valuable support for lecturers.

For Students:
Links to key documents
Web links
Flashcard glossary

For Lecturers:
Test Bank
PowerPoint slides

Readership: Third year undergraduates and MA students studying human rights.

Michael Goodhart: Introduction
Human Rights and Politics
1: Anthony J. Langlois: Normative and Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights
2: Brooke Ackerly: Human Rights as a Critique of Power: Feminist and Non-Western Approaches
3: Tim Dunne and Marianne Hanson: Human Rights in International Relations
4: Rhona K. M. Smith: Human Rights in International Law
5: Sonia Cardenas: Human Rights in Comparative Politics
6: Damien Short: Sociological and Anthropological Approaches
7: David Chandler: The Critique of Human Rights
Human Rights in Practice
8: Christian Davenport: Political Democracy and State Repression of Minorities
9: Marlies Glasius: Global Civil Society and Human Rights
10: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr: Human Rights and Politics in Development
11: David L. Richards and Ronald D. Gelleny: Economic Globalization and Human Rights
12: Vanessa Pupavac: Children's Human Rights
13: Gil Loescher: Human Rights and Forced Migration
14: Paul Havemann: Indigenous Peoples Human Rights
15: Andrea M. Bertone: Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
16: Scott Straus: Genocide and Human Rights
17: Alan J. Kuperman: Humanitarian Intervention
18: William F. Shulz: Torture
19: Joanna R. Quinn: Transitional Justice
The Future of Human Rights
20: Michael Goodhart: The Future of Human Rights
21: Todd Landman: Measuring Human Rights
22: John Barry and Kerri Woods: Human Rights and the Environment

Edited by Michael Goodhart, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Michael Goodhart is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization (2005, New York: Routledge), co-editor of Human Rights in the 21st Century: Continuity and Change since 9/11 (Palgrave, 2011), and author of numerous articles and book chapters. His current research focuses on problems of democracy in an era of globalization; problems in contemporary human rights theory and practice; and global injustice and the democratization of global economic governance.

Contributors:
Michael Goodhart, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Anthony J. Langlois, School of International Studies, Flinders University
Brooke Ackerly, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Tim Dunne, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland
Marianne Hanson, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland
Rhona K.M. Smith, School of Law, Northumbria University
Sonia Cardenas, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford
Damien Short, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
David Chandler, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster
Christian Davenport, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Marlies Glasius, Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, International Affairs, The New School
David L. Richards, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Ronald D. Gelleny, Department of Political Science, University of Akron
Vanessa Pupavac, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
Gil Loescher, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Paul Havemann, School of Law, James Cook University
Andrea Bertone, HumanTrafficking.org
Scott Straus, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Alan J. Kuperman, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
William F. Schulz, Amnesty International USA
Joanna R. Quinn, Department of Political Science, Western University, Ontario
Todd Landman, Department of Government, University of Essex
John Barry, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast
Kerri Woods, Department of Politics, University of York