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Published: 04 January 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478012801-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1280-1
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393948-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9394-8
Series: Perverse modernities
Published: 01 October 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394648-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9464-8
Published: 27 August 2010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9296-5
...Human Rights and the Uses of Culture in Indigenous Rights Advocacy ...
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 07 June 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386544-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8654-4
Published: 14 November 2008
DOI: 10.1215/9780822389057-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8905-7
Book Chapter

By Lesley Gill
Published: 26 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374701-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7470-1
... 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...
Published: 26 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374701
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7470-1
Published: 05 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375227-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7522-7
... This chapter explores the circulation and intertextuality of visual (photographs, films) literary (novels, poems), and human rights representations of birangonas from 1971 until 2001. It shows that these representations positively co-opted the birangona for the nation. But in the empirical...
Published: 05 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375227-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7522-7
Book Chapter

By Petrus Liu
Published: 30 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375081-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7508-1
... This chapter examines the paradox of queer human rights discourse in relation to two Chinas. Starting with the problem that queer human rights are derived from the rights-bearers’ differences (queerness) and their commonality (humanness), this chapter argues that our ability to deploy...
Published: 23 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375890-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7589-0
... race to garner moral capital. abolition capital punishment corporal punishment comparative Atlantic history human rights ...
Published: 23 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375890
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7589-0
Published: 26 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376019-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7601-9
... Several acclaimed recent films by young women directors take on women’s human rights issues while countering visual tropes of victimhood and challenging national cinema paradigms. These films are “postnational” in their financing and in their exploration of rights beyond those conferred...
Published: 28 June 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822391630-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9163-0
Published: 01 January 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023197-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2319-7
Published: 27 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027607-014
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2760-7
... This chapter provides a detailed analysis of international human rights laws and institutions and the relationship between Indigenous Peoples in South America and colonial borders. This chapter argues that advancing self-determination for transborder and transnational Indigenous Peoples requires...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 26 February 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478012788-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1278-8
Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 01 January 1998
DOI: 10.1215/9780822398059-019
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9805-9
Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 01 January 1998
DOI: 10.1215/9780822398059-020
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9805-9