Interpreting human rights: social science perspectives

Written by an international group of leading social science scholars in the field of human rights, this new volume situates the study of human rights in an open interdisciplinary terrain. Ranging over diverse topics and pathways in the theory and practice of human rights, this volume will be an invaluable aid to those seeking to understand the complex meanings, institutions, and practices of human rights

Introduction: human rights research and the social sciences / Rhiannon Morgan -- Political science and human rights / Todd Landman -- The right to health / Michael Freeman -- Indigenous peoples' rights: anthropology and the right to culture / Colin Samson -- Democratic human rights / Kate Nash -- What does it mean to take the sociology of human rights seriously? / Anthony Woodiwiss -- Forging indigenous rights at the United Nations: a social constructionist account / Rhiannon Morgan -- The new humanism: beyond modernity and postmodernity / Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada -- Corporations and human rights / Gideon Sjoberg -- A sociology of citizenship and human rights: does social theory still exist? / Bryan S. Turner -- Bibliography -- Index