Stones of hope :
Stones of hope : how African activists reclaim human rights to challenge global poverty /
edited by Lucie E. White and Jeremy Perelman ; with a foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa E. Sachs.
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
- xxvii, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
- Stanford studies in human rights .
- Stanford studies in human rights. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Place to live: resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice: South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / Evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania: structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Freeing Mohammed Zakari: rights as footprints / Stones of hope: experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Felix Morka -- Duncan Kennedy -- William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White.
"Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools--reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations--have proven ineffective. Increasingly, social justice advocates are looking to social and economic rights strategies as promising avenues for change. However, widespread skepticism remains as to how to make such rights real on the ground. Stones of Hope engages with the work of remarkable African advocates who have broken out of the conventional boundaries of human rights practice to challenge radical poverty. Through a sequence of case studies and interpretive essays, it illustrates how human rights can be harnessed to generate democratic institutional innovations. Ultimately, this book brings the reader down from the heights of official human rights forums to the ground level of advocacy. It is a must-read for human rights advocates, development practitioners, students, educators, and all others interested in an equitable global society"--Publisher's website.
9780804769204 0804769206
3336475
2010030289
Human rights.
Human rights advocacy--Africa--Case studies.
Human rights--Africa.
Social rights--Africa.
Human rights advocacy.
Social rights.
Africa.
Case studies.
Case studies.
JC599 / .S76 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Place to live: resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice: South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / Evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania: structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Freeing Mohammed Zakari: rights as footprints / Stones of hope: experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Felix Morka -- Duncan Kennedy -- William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White.
"Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools--reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations--have proven ineffective. Increasingly, social justice advocates are looking to social and economic rights strategies as promising avenues for change. However, widespread skepticism remains as to how to make such rights real on the ground. Stones of Hope engages with the work of remarkable African advocates who have broken out of the conventional boundaries of human rights practice to challenge radical poverty. Through a sequence of case studies and interpretive essays, it illustrates how human rights can be harnessed to generate democratic institutional innovations. Ultimately, this book brings the reader down from the heights of official human rights forums to the ground level of advocacy. It is a must-read for human rights advocates, development practitioners, students, educators, and all others interested in an equitable global society"--Publisher's website.
9780804769204 0804769206
3336475
2010030289
Human rights.
Human rights advocacy--Africa--Case studies.
Human rights--Africa.
Social rights--Africa.
Human rights advocacy.
Social rights.
Africa.
Case studies.
Case studies.
JC599 / .S76 2011