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Author Schmidt, Kerstin

Title The State of Human Rights Historical Genealogies, Political Controversies, and Cultural Imaginaries
Published Heidelberg : UniversitƤtsverlag Winter, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (274 p.)
Series Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy ; v.22
Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy
Contents Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Table of Contents -- Kerstin Schmidt -- Human Rights at the Border: A Political Introduction -- Saskia Sassen -- Foreword: Beyond People? A Human Rights Project that Engages Systems -- Heiner Bielefeldt -- Safeguarding Preconditions of Meaningful Interaction: A Critical Justification of Universal Rights -- Micheline Ishay -- Human Rights in the Age of Populism -- Benjamin Gregg -- The Human Rights State: Advancing Justice Through Political Imagination -- Yael Schacher -- Exclusions and Exceptions: The History of Asylum in the U.S
Florian Tatschner -- "We Seek Our Basic, God-Given Rights as Human Beings": Embodiment, Hope, and Utopia in the Delano Grape Strike -- Peter T. Wendel -- The U.S. Constitution and the 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights': A Comparative Approach -- Robin Leick -- The Fundamental Rights Regime of the European Union: Historical Developments and Future Challenges -- Sonali Perera -- Between Revolution and Revisionism: Human Rights and Antigone's Ghosts -- Crystal Parikh -- "I Haven't Come Back... I've Come Here": American Innocence and the Refugee Child
Katharina Matuschek -- "People in Prisons Are Still People": Reclaiming Humanity Through Autobiographical Prison Writing -- SunĨica Klaas -- A Crime Against Humanity: Prefiguring Human Rights in Solomon Northup's 'Twelve Years A Slave' -- Gerd Hurm -- 'The Family of Man' (1848/1955): Feminist Foremothers, Women's Rights, and Human Rights -- Jane Lydon -- The Universal Language of Photography? UNESCO's 'Human Rights Exhibition' in Australia, 1951
Greta Olson with Janna Wessels -- Imag(in)ing Human Rights: Deindividualizing, Victimizing, and Universalizing Images of Refugees in the United States and Germany -- Notes on Contributors -- Backcover
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Human rights -- History
Human rights
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Falk, Jasmin
Sassen, Saskia
Schmidt, Kerstin
ISBN 3825379345
9783825379346