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Most Americans assume that the United States provides a gold
standard for human rights-a 2007 survey found that 80 percent of
U.S. adults believed that "the U.S. does a better job than most
countries when it comes to protecting human rights." As well,
discussions among scholars and public officials in the United
States frame human rights issues as concerning people, policies, or
practices "over there." By contrast, the contributors to this
volume argue that many of the greatest immediate and structural
threats to human rights, and some of the most significant efforts
to realize human rights in practice, can be found in our own
backyard. Human Rights in Our Own Backyard examines the state of
human rights and responses to human rights issues, drawing on
sociological literature and perspectives to interrogate assumptions
of American exceptionalism. How do people in the U.S. address human
rights issues? What strategies have they adopted, and how
successful have these strategies been? Essays are organized around
key conventions of human rights, focusing on the relationships
between human rights and justice, the state and the individual,
civil rights and human rights, and group rights versus individual
rights. The contributors are united by a common conception of the
human rights enterprise as a process involving not only
state-defined and implemented rights but also human rights from
below as promoted by activists.
Most Americans assume that the United States provides a gold
standard for human rights—a 2007 survey found that 80 percent of
U.S. adults believed that "the U.S. does a better job than most
countries when it comes to protecting human rights." As well,
discussions among scholars and public officials in the United
States frame human rights issues as concerning people, policies, or
practices "over there." By contrast, the contributors to this
volume argue that many of the greatest immediate and structural
threats to human rights, and some of the most significant efforts
to realize human rights in practice, can be found in our own
backyard. Human Rights in Our Own Backyard examines the state of
human rights and responses to human rights issues, drawing on
sociological literature and perspectives to interrogate assumptions
of American exceptionalism. How do people in the U.S. address human
rights issues? What strategies have they adopted, and how
successful have these strategies been? Essays are organized around
key conventions of human rights, focusing on the relationships
between human rights and justice, the state and the individual,
civil rights and human rights, and group rights versus individual
rights. The contributors are united by a common conception of the
human rights enterprise as a process involving not only
state-defined and implemented rights but also human rights from
below as promoted by activists.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1989.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1989.
In The State of State Theory: State Projects, Repression, and
Multi-Sites of Power, Glasberg, Willis, and Shannon argue that
state theories should be amended to account both for theoretical
developments broadly in the contemporary period as well as the
multiple sites of power along which the state governs. Using state
projects and policies around political economy, sexuality and
family, food, welfare policy, racial formation, and social
movements as narrative accounts in how the state operates, the
authors argue for a complex and intersectional approach to state
theory. In doing so, they expand outside of the canon to engage
with perspectives within critical race theory, queer theory, and
beyond to build theoretical tools for a contemporary and critical
state theory capable of providing the foundations for understanding
how the state governs, what is at stake in its governance, and,
importantly, how people resist and engage with state power.
A unique multidimensional view of the relationship between the
state, society, and oppression Designed to help students analyze
and understand political developments in the world around them,
this unique text covers a wide array of political sociology
concepts and theoretical perspectives. The book's multidimensional
view emphasizes the interplay between power, inequality, multiple
oppressions, and the state. Blending elements of today's prevalent
power structure theories, this framework provides students with a
unique focus on the structure of power and inequality in society
today. This unique book traces common perspectives within political
sociology. However, it adds to the existing field using an
intersectional analysis by including state projects around gender,
race, and sexuality. Likewise, it engages with commonly ignored
perspectives within political sociology such as queer theory,
anarchist theory, and post-structuralism. This gives the book a
multi-dimensional view that recognizes the need to include, but
move beyond, class-based understandings as well as account for the
increasing popularity of anarchist, queer, and post-structuralist
theories.
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