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A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7470-1
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Narrowing Political Options and Human Rights
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Published:February 2016
This chapter analyzes the rise of human rights activism within the context of political terror, working-class setback, and ascendant neoliberalism. It traces the emergence of human rights advocacy from earlier forms of activism and considers how it appeared as a new way of making claims on the institutional state. The chapter argues that while human rights activism opened some room for a new politics of rights to develop in a repressive political environment, it was unable to withstand the power aligned against it. Human rights activism remained a defensive strategy that never moved beyond the condemnation of individual acts of...
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