1st Edition

Development and the Politics of Human Rights

Edited By Scott N. Romaniuk, Marguerite Marlin Copyright 2016
    286 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Despite decades spent confronting human rights violations around the world, particularly in regions of instability, the issue remains one of the most divisive, chaotic, and challenging to address. Development and the Politics of Human Rights takes a much-needed holistic approach. It unpacks the questions of human advocacy and policy, identifies traps in discussions about violations of rights, and presents best practices for a variety of disciplinary approaches by engaging several situational, professional, and regional perspectives.

    The contributions in this book represent the seeds of a growing culture of resistance against those who persecute the ideas and practices of freedom and enlightenment. It explores questions such as whether there are universal parameters for human rights across geopolitical contexts, how conflicts and crises affect issues relevant to human rights, and what the best practices are for sustaining these rights and for identifying accountability in their protection.

    The book gradually narrows its focus from global to local concerns, beginning with a structural examination of international governmental institutions, followed by analyses of the operational dynamics within various states and localities. It presents specific contexts for analyzing unique challenges to the establishment, maintenance, and strengthening of human rights. It also paints portraits of how abandoning the struggle for recognizing, protecting, and upholding human rights would impact the future of free and open societies.

    A thoughtful and proactive approach to the problem of continued violations of human rights, Development and the Politics of Human Rights gives a sense of imperative to act toward the development of a more cooperative network of communities. It advocates continuously improving interaction between organizations and individuals in professional and academic spheres toward shaping a world in which human rights can flourish.

    DEVELOPMENT

    Revisiting World-Systems Analysis in Understanding Development
    Marinko Bobić

    Does the Primary Condition for a Sustainable Human Development Meet the Feasibility Condition of Cost–Benefit Analysis?
    Hasnat Dewan

    Crossing Borders: Academe and Cultural Agency in Agricultural Research
    Robert W. Blake, Elvira E. Sánchez-Blake, and Debra A. Castillo

    Subordinated Inclusion: The Developmental State and the Dalit Colonies of Southern Kerala
    K. M. Pramod

    Impact of Labor Law Enhancement in China on Development and Its Implications for Global Development Theory
    Marguerite Marlin and Scott Nicholas Romaniuk

    Persistence of Italian Mafia: Violent Entrepreneurs in Developed States
    Marinko Bobić Bridging Worlds: Academe and Cultural Agency in Southern Mexico
    Robert W. Blake, Elvira E. Sánchez-Blake, and Debra A. Castillo

    A New Index to Measure Group Inequalities in Human Development for Sustainability
    Hasnat Dewan

    Coordination Failure in Global Common Pool Governance?
    Jan-Erik Lane

    Bernard Stiegler on Agricultural Innovation
    Pieter Lemmens

    HUMAN RIGHTS

    Foreign Aid and Human Rights: Putting Investment into Perspective
    Sebastian D. T. Jedicke and Scott Nicholas Romaniuk

    Discrimination and Hate: Overcriminalization or New Normativity?
    Charis Papacharalambous

    Work Discrimination against Women Employees in Malaysia
    Zaiton Othman and Nooraini Othman

    Employee Rights: The Equity–Equality Conflict as a Dilemma in the Management of Reward Systems
    Steen Scheuer

    Securing the Future of the Community: Child Protection in ASEAN
    Palapan Kampan and Adam R. Tanielian

    Researching International Humanitarian Law: A Decision-Making Process Model for Operationalizing State Practice
    Matthew T. Zommer

    Gender Conjectures and Politics of Land Right Deprivation in South-Eastern Nigeria
    Amaka Theresa Emordi and Emeka Thaddeus Njoku

    Monitoring the Right to Health: The Political, Social, and Ethical Impact of Patient Satisfaction
    Emmanuel Kabengele Mpinga and Philippe Chastonay

    The Application of the French, English, and Dutch Notions of Citizenship on the Criminal Law Approach toward Female Genital Mutilation
    Renée Kool and Sohail Wahedi

    "You Just Don’t See Us": The Influence of Public Schema on Constructions of Sexuality by People with Cerebral Palsy
    Tinashe M. Dune

    Biography

    Scott Nicholas Romaniuk is a PhD candidate in international studies at the University of Trento, Italy. He holds an MRes in political research from the University of Aberdeen, a BA with a double major in history and in German language and literature from the University of Alberta, and certificates in terrorism, counterterrorism, and war and peace. His research focuses on asymmetric warfare, counterterrorism, international security, and the use of force.

    Marguerite Marlin is a PhD candidate in political science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She specializes in comparative legislatures, nongovernmental influence on public policy, and Arctic affairs. She earned her MA in European, Russian, and Eurasian studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. She was a young researcher at the Northern Research Forum’s Open Assembly in 2014 and her writings have been featured in a variety of academic and nonacademic publications.