TY  - GEN
AU  - Stammers, Neil
TI  - Human rights and social movements
SN  - 9780745329116
U1  - 341.481 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Social movements
N2  - This book champions social movements as one of the most influential agents that shape our conceptions of human rights. Stammers argue that human rights cannot be properly understood outside of the context of social movement struggles. He explains how much of the literature on human rights has systematically obscured this link,  consequently distorting our understandings of human rights. Stammers identifies the contours of a new framework through which human rights can be understood. He suggests that what he calls the 'paradox of institutionalization' can only be addressed through recognition of the importance of human rights arising out of grassroots activism,  and through processes of institutional democratization. (Source: www.alibris.com)
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