Date: 2012
Type: Book
Human Rights and the Global Economy
Social Research, 2012, 79, 4, Special Issue
BHUTA, Nehal, FUKUDA-PARR, Sakiko, TICKTIN, Miriam (editor/s), BHUTA, Nehal, FUKUDA-PARR, Sakiko, TICKTIN, Miriam, Human Rights and the Global Economy, Social Research, 2012, 79, 4, Special Issue
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/25819
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
This edited volume publishes as a special issue of the quarterly social science journal Social Research, a collection of articles on Human Rights and the Global Economy. The topics addressed are Human Rights and Economy Policy; Global Poverty and the Obligations of Rich Countries; Human Rights, Climate Change and Global Justice; and Corporations and Human Rights Obligations. This issue contains the edited proceedings of the November 2011 conference at the New School, where experts and scholars explored human rights as a mediating language for discussions of social justice and the global economy.
Table of Contents:
-- Nehal Bhuta Guest editors’ introduction
-- PART 1: HUMAN RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC POLICY IN PRACTICE
-- Olivier De Schutter “The Role of Human Rights in Shaping International Regimes”
-- Majnari Mahajan “The Right to Health as the Right to Treatment: Shifting Conceptions of Public Health”
-- PART 2: GLOBAL POVERTY AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF RICH COUNTRIES
-- Introduction: Philip G. Alston
-- Sakiko Fukuda-Parr “Right to Development: Reframing the Debates for the 21st Century”
-- Christian Barry “Are trade subsidies and tariffs killing the global poor?”
-- PART 3: HUMAN RIGHTS, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND GLOBAL JUSTICE
-- Introduction: David Scobey
-- Siri Gloppen and Asuncion St. Clair “Climate Change Lawfare”
-- Jackie Dugard, Jennifer MacLeod, and Anna Alcaro “A Rights-Based Examination of Residents’ Engagement with Acute Environmental Harm across Four Sites on South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin”
-- Kathryn Hochstetler “Climate Rights and Obligations for Emerging States: The Cases of Brazil and South Africa”
-- Des Gasper "Climate Change: The Need for a Human Rights Agenda Within a Framework of Shared Human Security"
-- PART 4: COPRPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS
-- Introduction: Miriam Ticktin
-- Gay Seidman “Regulation at Work: Globalization, Labor Rights and Development”
-- Christopher London “Coffee, Certification and the Incorrigibility of Capitalism”
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/25819
ISSN: 0037-783X
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
