Global Urban Justice
The Rise of Human Rights Cities
Barbara Oomen editor Martha F Davis editor Michele Grigolo editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:23rd Jun '16
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Provides theoretical and practical insights into how the new phenomenon of human rights cities contributes to global urban justice.
Written by leading scholars and practitioners, this fascinating account of the rise of human rights cities around the world is relevant to all those interested in either the future of cities or the future of human rights.Cities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban actors and international organizations, to enable the 'translation' of the abstract language of human rights to the local level, and to develop new practices designed to bring about global urban justice. This book brings together academics and practitioners at the forefront of human rights cities and the 'right to the city' movement to critically discuss their history and also the potential that human rights cities hold for global urban justice.
'Global Urban Justice provides a timely window into the theory and practice of human rights in the city. Although the volume helpfully collects many examples of success, its authors are careful not to generalize or romanticize the experience of local implementation. As a result, the collection offers a new lens through which to understand the issues that arise when efforts are made to take the broad set of rights articulated in the UDHR and UN treaties and turn them into real policies and programs that shape how people live. … Global Urban Justice should be understood as a clear-eyed call to action, highlighting the potential of human rights, not its inevitability.' Johanna Kalb, Columbia Human Rights Law Review
ISBN: 9781107147010
Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 25mm
Weight: 650g
350 pages