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...Human Rights and the Uses of Culture in Indigenous Rights Advocacy ...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... race to garner moral capital. abolition capital punishment corporal punishment comparative Atlantic history human rights ...

... 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...

... 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...