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Human Rights as Battlefields

Changing Practices and Contestations

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Editors:
  1. Gabriel Blouin-Genest

    1. Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

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  2. Marie-Christine Doran

    1. School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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  3. Sylvie Paquerot

    1. School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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  • Offers a new conceptual framework to understand human rights in their changing political dimension
  • Documents key case studies/contexts in which human rights are expressed in terms of political battlefields
  • Examines the ambivalence and limitations of such theoretical/conceptual apparatus

Part of the book series: Human Rights Interventions (HURIIN)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Becoming Human Rights Subjects Through New Practices

    • Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, Sylvie Paquerot
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Changing Nature of Human Rights and Their Political Boundaries: New Definitions, Longstanding Debates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Human Rights as Battlefields: Power Relations, Translations and Transformations—A Theoretical Framework

      • Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, Sylvie Paquerot
      Pages 15-30

    3. The Gender of Human Rights: The French Debate Over “les droits de l’Homme”

      • Charles Bosvieux-Onyekwelu
      Pages 31-51

    4. The Right to Water: The Political Function of Human Rights as an Expression of the Contradictions in Globalization

      • Sylvie Paquerot
      Pages 53-75

    5. Politics of Neutrality, Human Rights and Armed Struggles: The Turkey Example

      • Ozan Kamiloglu
      Pages 77-98

  5. Social Contestation and the Broadening of Human Rights’ Meanings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Indigenous Peoples in Chile: Contesting Violence, Building New Meanings for Rights and Democracy

      • Marie-Christine Doran
      Pages 199-223

    3. Improving HIV/AIDS Drugs Access: A Genealogy of the Human Right to Health from Below

      • Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Mikey Erb
      Pages 225-247

    4. Internet Access as Human Right: A Dystopian Critique from the Occupied Palestinian Territory

      • Fabio Cristiano
      Pages 249-268

    5. Conclusion: Changing Human Right Practices and the Battlefields of World Politics

      • Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, Sylvie Paquerot
      Pages 269-280

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 281-288
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About this book

This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions. This translation, in turn, contributes to modifying the scope and understanding of human rights. Ultimately, these battlefields express the legitimacy encounter of different versions of human rights in contemporary political practices. The volume thus challenges both the tendency to minimize the changing nature of human rights as well as the struggles emerging from the use of human rights discourses as a legitimization tool. By shifting the focus on what stakeholders do instead of solely on the origin, nature or foundations of human rights, the authors reveal that human rights are not static objects: they are constantly transformed and, as such, affect the horizon of universal rights. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Gabriel Blouin-Genest

  • School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Marie-Christine Doran, Sylvie Paquerot

About the editors

Gabriel Blouin-Genest is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA.


Marie-Christine Doran is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.


Sylvie Paquerot is Associate Professor of Political and Legal Studies at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.





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