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Human Rights Violation in Turkey

Rethinking Sociological Perspectives

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. David Straw

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • David Straw
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Sociological Portrayal in Context

    • David Straw
    Pages 14-36

  4. The Emergence of Human Rights

    • David Straw
    Pages 37-58

  5. A Theory of Human Rights

    • David Straw
    Pages 59-81

  6. Transition to ‘Equality’

    • David Straw
    Pages 82-103

  7. Responsibility

    • David Straw
    Pages 104-124

  8. Resolution

    • David Straw
    Pages 125-143

  9. Preservation

    • David Straw
    Pages 144-158

  10. Conclusion

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    Pages 159-173

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 174-192
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About this book

Sociological theory has veered between an insistence on understanding human rights as a genuine universal morality and far more cynical portrayals of human rights as a veil of bourgeois capitalist enterprise. This book criticizes, adapts and combines seemingly disparate elements of contemporary sociological theory within a new approach to human rights. The practicality of the approach is clearly demonstrated in its application to one of the most important, complex and vexing locations of human rights violation in the world: modern Turkey. While sociological analyses of Turkey have largely been limited to local perspectives on individual issues of human rights violation, this book expands sociological understanding of the broad swath of Turkey's human rights violations into a new global perspective of hope and resolution.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    David Straw

About the author

David Straw is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster, UK. 

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