The Social Practice of Human Rights

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. The Practice Turn in Human Rights Research

   1. The Practice Turn in Human Rights Research

      • Joel R. Pruce

      Pages 1-17

3. Constructive Critique

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Rethinking Activism: Social Movements and the State over the Longue Durée

      • Alex de Waal

      Pages 21-41

   3. How to Ask People for Change: Examining Peoples’ Willingness to Donate to Human Rights Campaigns

      • Kyla McEntire, Michele Leiby, Matthew Krain

      Pages 43-62

   4. Documentarian, Witness, and Organizer: Exploring Celebrity Roles in Human Rights Media Advocacy

      • Alexandra Cosima Budabin

      Pages 63-78

4. Grassroots Sites of Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. The Human Right to Water and Advocacy for Urban Water Supply: After the Privatization Struggles

      • Paul Nelson

      Pages 81-99

   3. Localizing the Global/Globalizing the Local: Reconciling Botho and Human Rights in Botswana

      • Kristi Heather Kenyon

      Pages 101-119

   4. Uneven Ground: Asymmetries of Power in Human Rights Advocacy in Mexico

      • Barbara A. Frey

      Pages 121-139

5. Institutional Sites of Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. The UN Security Council and the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

      • Carrie Booth Walling

      Pages 143-165

   3. The Social Practice of Securitizing Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: 1325 Fifteen Years On

      • Natalie Florea Hudson

      Pages 167-184

   4. Constructing a Dialogue on Human Dignity: The Role for Global Institutions

      • Mark P. Lagon, Anthony Clark Arend

      Pages 185-200

6. Back Matter

   Pages 201-235

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The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between. The volume brings together cutting-edge chapters that together set a new agenda for research, grounded in the practice of critical self-reflection on the strategies that drive communities dedicated to the advocacy and implementation of human rights. The social practice of human rights takes place not in front of a judge, but in the streets and alleys, in the backrooms and out-of-the-way places where change occurs. Contributors to this volume investigate the contexts and efforts of activists and professionals devoted to promoting human rights norms. This research takes as its subject the organizations and movements that shoulder the burden of improving respect for human dignity. It argues that through a constructive critique of these patterns and practices, scholarship can have a positive impact on the political world.

• Human rights
• advocacy
• transnational politics
• social movements
• grassroots
• institutions
• social practice
• practitioner
• non-governmental organizations
• NGOs
• gender
• government
• human rights
• Institution
• Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
• politics

Joel R. Pruce is Assistant Professor in Human Rights Studies at the University of Dayton, USA. He holds a PhD from the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies, USA. Joel's research within the area of human rights is informed by critical theory and focuses on transnational advocacy, visual media, and popular culture.

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