Search Results for: Human Rights As Social Construction

Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing

There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume investigates whether h

A sociological approach to human rights, showing how rights language is used to address structural injustices around the world.

This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these construction

The nation-state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and rights to all people in the world. In The Human Rights State, Benjamin Gre