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Urban Politics of Human Rights

Janne Nijman editor Barbara Oomen editor Sara Miellet editor Lisa Roodenburg editor Elif Durmuş editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:14th Nov '22

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Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspirations, or to protect vested (private) interests. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of human rights are at the heart of this book.

An international line-up of contributors with long-term engagement in this field shed light on these politics in cities on four continents and eight cities, presenting a wealth of empirical detail and disciplinary theoreticalisation perspectives. They analyse the ‘city society’, the urban actors involved, and the mechanisms of human rights mobilisation. In doing so, they show the commonalities in rights engagement in today’s globalised and often deeply unequal cities characterised by urban law, private capital but also communities that rally around concepts as the ‘right to the city’. Most importantly, the chapters highlight the conditions under which this mobilisation truly contributes to social justice, be it concerning the simple right to presence, cultural rights, accessible housing or – in times of COVID – health care.

Urban Politics of Human Rights provides indispensable reading for anyone with a practical or theoretical interest in the complex, deeply political, and at times also truly promising interrelationship between human rights and the urban.

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"With contributions from a stellar roster of established and emerging human rights scholars, this book puts urban communities and governance at its center. The results are riveting, and illuminating for both theory and practice. From Istanbul to Sao Paolo, from San Francisco to Nairobi, the topics covered are broad. At the same time, there is exceptional depth to the analyses, in large part because the chapters are positioned in dialogue around key issues of spatial inequalities, norm diffusion, mobilisation, housing, urban politics, and more. This remarkable volume expands our understanding of the human rights-urban nexus in ways that will reverberate far beyond its pages."

Martha F. Davis, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Northeastern University

ISBN: 9781032299037

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 540g

234 pages