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The Right to Housing - Law, Concepts, Possibilities (Hardcover, New)
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The Right to Housing - Law, Concepts, Possibilities (Hardcover, New)
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A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt
protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through
which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the
right to housing raises housing itself to the position of primary
importance. However, the meaning, content, scope and even existence
of a right to housing raise vexed questions. Drawing on insights
from disciplines including law, anthropology, political theory,
philosophy and geography, this book is both a contribution to the
state of knowledge on the right to housing, and an entry into the
broader human rights debate. It addresses profound questions on the
role of human rights in belonging and citizenship, the formation of
identity, the perpetuation of forms of social organisation and,
ultimately, of the relationship between the individual and the
state. The book addresses the legal, theoretical and conceptual
issues, providing a deep analysis of the right to housing within
and beyond human rights law. Structured in three parts, the book
outlines the right to housing in international law and in key
national legal systems; examines the most important concepts of
housing: space, privacy and identity and, finally, looks at the
potential of the right to alleviate human misery, marginalisation
and deprivation. The book represents a major contribution to the
scholarship on an under-studied and ill-defined right. In terms of
content, it provides a much needed exploration of the right to
housing. In approach it offers a new framework for argument within
which the right to housing, as well as other under-theorised and
contested rights, can be reconsidered, reconnecting human rights
with the social conditions of their violation, and hence with the
reasons for their existence. Shortlisted for The Peter Birks Prize
for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2013.
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