...Dominique Clément The following article challenges the assumption that human rights legislation promoted gender equality. International human rights treaties have established new standards for human rights, but it is at the local level at which the battle for human rights is won or lost...

...Cath Collins This essay discusses the origins, implications, and future of present-day trials for dictatorship-era human rights violations in Chile. It analyzes the causes, consequences, and likely future of these prosecutions and debates how use of the judicial idiom may have both negatively...

...Elizabeth Lira Forty years after the coup of 1973, the death of President Salvador Allende Gossens, and the beginning of a seventeen-year period (1973–90) of human rights violations by the military dictatorship, it is time to turn attention from a Santiago-centric history and relate the regional...

... theatricality education body neoliberal city occupy movement REFLECTIONS: MEMORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS Theatricalities of Dissent Human Rights, Memory, and the Student Movement in Chile Alicia del Campo Que vivan los estudiantes, Hurrah for the students, jardín de las alegrías. Garden...

...Erik S. McDuffie This article critically examines the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, a short-lived black women's radical protest organization, and its human rights agenda during the early Cold War. The first and only group in the Communist Left led by African American women, the Sojourners...

...Erik Esselstrom This essay reflects on the experience of a remarkable Japanese woman, Hasegawa Teru, whose life story can help us both historicize and contextualize the emergence of a human-rights discourse in modern Japan and connect it to the struggle of the social and political Left in Japanese...

... of openness movements. It draws on a surge of recent scholarly work on child adoption to explore connections between race, child welfare, women's rights, and transnationalism. It also raises the question of child adoption as a human rights issue by considering together activist trends in domestic...

...Andrea Smith Recently, social-justice organizations, particularly those with a racial-justice focus, have begun to work within a human rights frame. They regard human rights as a framework that challenges U.S. hegemony and that also provides an opportunity for U.S.-based social justice...

...Felipe Agüero MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY Dictatorship and Human Rights: The Politics of Memory Felipe Agüero I taught this course only once, in the fall of 2003. A course on the politics of memory was, for me, definitely...

...Howard Chiang This article extends debates on the place of Taiwan on our scholarly canvas by highlighting the region's unique status at the intersections of various margins—geopolitical, sociocultural, and historiographical. Using press reports of renyao (“human prodigy,” a Chinese category...

.... In this review and extension of anthropological approaches to patrimony, I argue that a vacillation between alienable and inalienable cultural properties constructed around quotidian habits, or what has been construed as some sort of human essence supervised by UNESCO, has come to rest today on a hybrid form...

...Donna Haraway 1979 The Biological Enterprise : Sex, Mind, and Profit from Human Engineering to Sociobiology Donna Haraway Life can be moulded into any conceivable form. Draw...

...Ilan Pappe 2003 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2003 06-Pappe.btw 4/16/03 12:03 PM Page 102 REFLECTIONS Humanizing the Text: Israeli “New History” and the Trajectory of the 1948 Historiography...

... she envisioned social change. Writing at a time when the concept of human rights was increasingly invoked on the international stage, Smith created a vernacular form of human rights thinking through her prose. Smith's humanism bears the traces of her immersion in the work of writers, especially Tagore...

... on the Nixon years will also force us to reflect, too, on the state of progressive forces in this country and to renew our commitment for a just and humane society. William V. Flores is a Rockefeller Fellow in the Humanities at the Centro de Estudios Puertorrique?ios,Hunter College, City...

...Elizabeth Heineman Since the Rwandan genocide and the wars of Yugoslav disintegration in the early 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received considerable media attention. Thanks to international feminist organizing, international organizations have recognized it as a human-rights...

...Leila J. Rupp This essay describes a graduate reading course in women's studies I taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the spring of 2003 to contribute to a consideration of teaching about women's movements, human rights, and transnationalism. My goal in the course...

... of liberation. In participating in radical critiques of Latin America’s social order, the Nueva Canción rewrote gender norms embedded in society and its music. Revolutionary singer-songwriters explored the meanings of human emancipation in ways that challenged traditional gender roles and ideologies. Political...

... in terms of human rights. The article situates the ANC's Geneva Conventions declaration and Code of Conduct against the background of internal debates about what constituted a just war and what foundation its days in exile should set for a postapartheid South Africa and the nature of the law that would...

..., an extractive capitalist complex that, despite shifts in its mode of production and representation, continues to unequally structure both relations between humans and relations between humans and other species. Yet, within the Chilean context, this web has been historically challenged by Mapuche, Pehuenche...