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Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles by new and established authors. The collection includes a range of new work addressing issues such as genocide in relation to indigenous peoples, rights-based approaches in development work, trafficking of children, and childrens rights in relation to political struggles for the decriminalisation of same-sex sexual activity in India. It examines contexts ranging from Rwanda and South Korea to Northern Ireland and the city of Barcelona.The collection as a whole will be of interest to students and academics working in various disciplines such as politics, law and social policy, and to practitioners working on human rights for various governmental and non-governmental organisations, as well as to sociologists seeking to develop understanding of the sociology of human rights.This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.
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Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements
Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles by new and established authors. The collection includes a range of new work addressing issues such as genocide in relation to indigenous peoples, rights-based approaches in development work, trafficking of children, and children's rights in relation to political struggles for the decriminalisation of same-sex sexual activity in India. It examines contexts ranging from Rwanda and South Korea to Northern Ireland and the city of Barcelona.
The collection as a whole will be of interest to students and academics working in various disciplines such as politics, law and social policy, and to practitioners working on human rights for various governmental and non-governmental organisations, as well as to sociologists seeking to develop understanding of the sociology of human rights.
This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.
Patricia Hynes is Senior Research Officer at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the UK. Her research interests include forced migration, trafficking, and refugee and asylum policy. She has published internationally including for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and in the Journal of Refugee Studies.
Michele Lamb is Lecturer in Human Rights at the Department of Social Sciences at Roehampton University, United Kingdom, and is the founder of the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Rights Study Group. She has conducted research on human rights in India, for the Scottish Human Rights Commission, and in Northern Ireland, from which she has published journal articles.
Damien Short is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom. His research interests include indigenous people's rights, reconciliation projects, transitional justice and genocide; he is author of Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia (Ashgate, 2008), and has published articles in journals including Current Sociology and Citizenship Studies.
Matthew Waites is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. He is author of The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and co-editor with Kelly Kollman of The Global Politics of LGBT Human Rights, a special issue of Contemporary Politics Vol. 15, no. 1 (March 2009).
Sociology and Human Rights:
New Engagements
Edited by
Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short and Matthew Waites
Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short and Matthew Waites
First published 2011
by Routledge
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This book is a reproduction of the International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 14, issue 6. The Publisher requests to those authors who may be citing this book to state, also, the bibliographical details of the special issue on which the book was based.
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ISBN13: 978-0-415-61797-0
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The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book are referred to as articles as they had been in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.
The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book are referred to as articles as they had been in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.
Contents
Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short and Matthew Waites
Damien Short
Victoria Canning
Joanna Ferrie
Eunna Lee-Gong
Michele Grigolo
Hannah Miller
Jennifer Melvin
Patricia Hynes
Matthew Waites
Michele Lamb
Victoria Canning is a women's rights activist with Merseyside Women's Movement and Merseyside Rape and Sexual Abuse centre. She works at Liverpool John Moores University researching the significance of the effects of rape in conflict on women's needs for asylum, as well as women's experiences of maternity care in the asylum system in Merseyside. She is currently undertaking her PhD, lectures in Sociology and Criminology and previously worked with child rape survivors in KwaZulu-Natal.
Joanna Ferrie is a research fellow based in the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her PhD examined the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001) on Scottish schools. Much of her work continues to examine, sociologically, how legislation is implemented and its impact on people who are marginalised.
Michele Grigolo is post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. He holds a PhD in social and political sciences (European University Institute) and a European master's degree in human rights and democratisation (University of Padua). His research focuses on human rights, equality (race, migration, sexuality and gender) and urban politics.
Patricia Hynes is Senior Research Officer at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the UK. Her research interests include forced migration, trafficking, and refugee and asylum policy. She has published internationally including for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and in the Journal of Refugee Studies.
Michele Lamb is Lecturer in Human Rights at the Department of Social Sciences at Roehampton University, United Kingdom, and is the founder of the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Rights Study Group. She has conducted research on human rights in India, for the Scottish Human Rights Commission, and in Northern Ireland, from which she has published journal articles.
Eunna Lee-Gong obtained her MA on human rights at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex and has recently completed her PhD in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex. Her research interests include social justice, implementation of economic and social rights, the human rights movement and human rights in Asia.
Jennifer Melvin is a PhD student in human rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis evaluating the national reconciliation programme in Rwanda according to a normative understanding of reconciliation theory. She completed a master's degree in Human Rights at the University of Essex in 2005.
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