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Social Movements and the Social Construction of Human Rights
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This article is published in Human Rights Quarterly.The article was published on 1999-11-01. It has received 245 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social change & Resource mobilization.read more
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International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance
TL;DR: In this article, international law, development and Third World Resistance are discussed. But the focus is on developing countries and not the Third World resistance, as is the case in this paper.
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A Review of Children’s Rights Literature Since the Adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
TL;DR: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has become a significant field of study during the past decades, largely due to the adoption of the UN Convention in 1989.
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International Human Rights Law as Power/Knowledge
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors place international human rights law within the context of critique in an effort to explain the hegemony of law within human rights discourse, arguing that human rights offers a discourse of both freedom and domination.
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Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food
George Kent,Jean Ziegler +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Ziegler et al. present a table and a list of tables and figures to take human rights seriously, including food, economic, social, and cultural rights.
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Shell, Nigeria and the Ogoni. A study in unsustainable development: II. Corporate social responsibility and ‘stakeholder management’ versus a rights‐based approach to sustainable development
TL;DR: Boele et al. as mentioned in this paper described the history of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group from its inception in 1890 through to the year 2000, discussed briefly the importance of corporate reputation to the group and described significant impacts on Shell of the events of 1995 in Nigeria.
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New social movement theories
TL;DR: In this paper, the utility of new social movement theories for analyzing contemporary forms of collective action is assessed and an overview and assessment of their utility is provided for analyzing these forms of action.
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New social movements of the early nineteenth century
TL;DR: A variety of examples informed the conceptualization of "new social movements" as mentioned in this paper, which emphasized lifestyle, ethical, or "identity" concerns rather than narrowly economic goals, and were new even by comparison with conventional liberalism with its assumption of fixed individual identities and interests.
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Rights and Social Movements: Counter-Hegemonic Strategies
TL;DR: The authors argue that using the Gramscian concepts of hegemony and counter-hegemony makes it possible to advance a positive evaluation of the place of rights strategies within progressive politics without succumbing to illusions about what Stuart Scheingold called "the myth of rights".
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The Global Panopticon? The Neoliberal State, Economic Life, and Democratic Surveillance:
TL;DR: One impoverishes the question of power if one poses it simply in terms of legislation and constitution as mentioned in this paper, the state and the state apparatus. Power is more complicated, dense and pervasive.