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The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights

Recognition, Novelty, Rhetoric

Andreas von Arnauld editor Kerstin von der Decken editor Mart Susi editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:2nd Jan '20

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Offers a comprehensive analysis of the contested emergence of new human rights for the first time.

Examines the emergence of 'new' human rights, following a comprehensive approach and analysing various 'new' rights, including the struggles for their recognition, their contested nature, from different angles, and theoretical approaches. Human rights scholars, practitioners, and activists alike will learn from this study of new human rights.The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new' human rights. Whereas legal theory tends to neglect the development of concrete individual rights, monographs on 'new' rights often deal with structural matters only in passing and the issue of 'new' human rights has received only cursory attention in literature. By bringing together a large number of emergent human rights, analysed by renowned human rights experts from around the world, and combining the analyses with theoretical approaches, this book fills this lacuna. The comprehensive and dialectic approach, which enables insights from individual rights to overarching theory and vice versa, will ensure knowledge growth for generalists and specialists alike. The volume goes beyond a purely legal analysis by observing the contestation, rhetorics, the struggle for recognition of 'new' human rights, thus speaking to human rights professionals beyond the legal sphere.

ISBN: 9781108484732

Dimensions: 259mm x 184mm x 37mm

Weight: 1170g

720 pages