Handbook of Human Rights

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1 SUB Hamburg B/ Handbook of Human Rights Edited by Thomas Cushman I) Routledge g^^ Taylor &. Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK

2 Notes on contributors Acknowledgments xiii xxiii Introduction 1 Thomas Cushman PARTI Foundations and critiques 7 1 Philosophical foundations of human rights 9 Andrew Fagan 2 The metaphysical foundations of natural rights 23 Edward Feser 3 Kant's theory of human rights 35 Luigi Caranti 4 Hate speech, human rights, and G.W. F. Hegel 45 Richard Mullender 5 Hannah Arendt on human rights 59 Roger Berkowitz 6 Democracy as human rights 68 Michael Goodhart 1 Human rights, justice, and pluralism 77 Fabrizio Sciacca 8 Human rights and democracy 85 Luigi Caranti

3 9 Cosmopolitanism and human rights 100 Robert Fine 10 A critique of positive rights 110 Tibor R. Machan 11 Nonsense on stilts 118 Roger Scruton 12 A communitarian critique of human rights 129 Amitai Etzioni PART II New frameworks for understanding human rights What are human rights? Four schools of thought 137 Marie-Benedicte Dembour 14 Social suffering and human rights 146 Iain Wilkinson 15 Human rights as cultural practices 155 Fuyuki Kurasawa 16 Human rights as status relations: A sociological approach to understanding human rights 164 Murray Milner,Jr. 17 Becoming irrelevant: The curious history of anthropology and human rights 180 Mark Goodale 18 Economics and human rights 194 Lorenz Blume 19 Rights, reform, and resources: Malthusian reflections on scarcity and old age 206 Bryan S. Turner VIM

4 PART III World religious traditions and human rights Buddhism and human rights 223 Damien Keown 21 Christianity and human rights 231 Esther D. Reed 22 Confucianism and human rights 244 Justin Tiwald 23 Islamic conceptions of human rights 255 Irene Oh 24 A non-religious basis for the idea of human rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as overlapping consensus 266 Ari Kohen PART IV Social, economic, group, and collective rights Group rights: A defense 277 David Ingram 26 Economic rights: Past, present, and future 291 Gerald J. Beyer 27 Language rights: The forgotten dimension of human rights 311 Stephen May 28 Children's rights 324 David Archard 29 The development of international child law: The definition of "the child" and implementation mechanisms 333 Jenny Kuper IX

5 30 ' The right to food 349 Clair Apodaca 31 The rights of refugees 359 Hakan G. Sicakkan 32 The rights of the disabled 373 Doris Zames Fleischer 33 Fetal rights 384 Jonathan B. Imber 34 The human rights of the elderly 389 Frederic Megret 35 Environmental human rights 399 Richard P. Hiskes 36 Climate change and human rights 410 Nancy Tuana PARTV Critical perspectives on human rights organizations, institutions, and practices The tension between peace and justice in the age of peace-building 421 Henry F. Carey 38 Social responsibility and human rights 432 Morton Winston 39 The ethics of international human rights non-governmental organizations 444 Daniel A. Bell 40 International financial institutions and their impacts on human rights: Current and prospective research 455 M. Rodwan Abouharb 41 Transnational corporations and human rights 466 Elena Pariotti

6 42 Reparations for human rights abuses 476 Ereshnee Naidu and John Torpey 43 Memory and human rights 491 Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider 44 Truth commissions and human rights 500 Margaret Urban Walker 45 The international rights of migrants 508 Raquel Aldana 46 The humanitarian human rights nexus: A global culture perspective 524 Joshua J. Yates 47 Bystanders to human rights abuses: A psychosocial perspective 533 Irene Bruna Sen 48 The proportionality problem and human rights NGOs 548 Don A. Habibi 49 Jewish non-governmental organizations 560 Michael Galchinsky 50 Have human rights failed humans? The discord between human prosperity and human rights 570 Mirko Bagaric PART VI Law and human rights International law and human rights 583 Brian D. Lepard 52 The prosecution of human rights abuses 598 Dan Saxon 1 53 International human rights law and the war on terror 610 Robert J. Delahunty and John Yoo XI

7 PART VII Narrative and aesthetic dimensions of human rights Cultures of rescue and the global transit in human rights narratives 625 Sidonie Smith 55 Literature and human rights 637 Kerry Bystrom 56 Theater and human rights 647 Florian Becker and Brenda Werth 57 Architecture and human rights 659 Graeme Bristol 58 Photography without borders 669 Arietta Azoulay PART VIII Geographies of rights Human rights in China as an interdisciplinary field: History, current debates, and new approaches 685 Marina Svensson 60 Human rights and human rights violations in the Southern Cone 702 Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder 61 Human rights in the African state 719 Bonny Ibhawoh Index 733 XII