Format:
XXVII, 249 S.
,
graph. Darst.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] Ebrary 2010 Online-Ressource ebrary online
ISBN:
9780804769198
,
0804769192
,
9780804769204
,
0804769206
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Human Rights Ser.
Content:
Stones of Hope shows how African human rights activists have opened new possibilities for justice in the everyday lives of the world's most impoverished peoples.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword / Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa E. Sachs -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- I. Case Studies -- 1. A Place to Live: Resisting Evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Felix Morka -- Commentary on Anti-eviction and Development in the Global South / Duncan Kennedy -- 2. Cultural Transformation, Deep Institutional Reform, and ESR Practice: South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- 3. The Evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania: Structural Constraints and Alternative Pathways in the Struggles over Land / Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- 4. Freeing Mohammed Zakari: Rights as Footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- II. Theoretical Essays -- 5. Stones of Hope: Experience and Theory in African Economic and Social Rights Activism / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- 6. The Long Arc of Pragmatic Economic and Social Rights Advocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White -- Epilogue / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - A place to live : resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Felix Morka -- Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Duncan Kennedy -- Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice : South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- The evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania : structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Freeing Mohammed Zakari : rights as footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- Stones of hope : experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- The long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804776431
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804769198
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804769198
Language:
English
Keywords:
Afrika
;
Menschenrechtler
;
Armut
;
Demokratisierung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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