Human Rights in the Americas (InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict)

By: Francisco A. Lomelí and María Herrera-Sobek and Luz Angélica Kirschner

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Synopsis: This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields. Taking 1492 as a point of departure, the text explores Eurocentric historiographies of human rights and offer a more complete understanding of the genealogy of the human rights discourse and its many manifestations in the Americas. The essays use a variety of approaches to reveal the larger contexts from which they emerge, providing a cross-sectional view of subjects, countries, methodologies and foci explicitly dedicated toward understanding historical factors and circumstances that have shaped human rights nationally and internationally within the Americas. The chapters explore diverse cultural, philosophical, political and literary expressions where human rights discourses circulate across the continent taking into consideration issues such as race, class, gender, genealogy and nationality. While acknowledging the ongoing centrality of the nation, the volume promotes a shift in the study of the Americas as a dynamic transnational space of conflict, domination, resistance, negotiation, complicity, accommodation, dialogue, and solidarity where individuals, nations, peoples, institutions, and intellectual and political movements share struggles, experiences, and imaginaries. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of InterAmerican studies and those from all disciplines interested in Human Rights.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 314 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000359732
Related ISBNs:: 9780367636920, 9781003120315, 9780367636913
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 09/04/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco A. Lomelí, and Luz Angélica Kirschner
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Luz Angélica Kirschner
Edited by:: Francisco Lomelí
Edited by:: María Herrera-Sobek