Human rights and development
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Human rights and development
（Routledge perspectives on development / series editor, Tony Binns）
Routledge, 2024 [i.e. 2023]
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The only up-to-date textbook that provides a systematic, critical overview of the human rights-development nexus.
The book will provide students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of human rights as a development challenge, delineate the responses and alternative critical approaches from a theoretical and practical perspective
Equips readers with the conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for independent investigation of key issues at the human rights/development interface.
Wide-ranging in scope, multi-scalar in looking at global policy initiatives or vulnerable groups such as indigenous peoples
Well developed pedagogy including: a student briefing in the introduction, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter, text boxes to highlight particular issues, theoretical approaches, examples, cases and annotated further reading.
Table of Contents
1. The Relevance of Human Rights and Development 2. Development in Theory and Practice 3. Globalisation and Shifting Worlds of Development 4. Human Rights Controversies and Convergences 5. Actors and Institutions in Human Rights and Development 6. Intersections - Rights-Based Approaches to Development 7. The Human Right to Health and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic 8. Impact in Rights-Based Approaches: Aligning Actors, Institutions and Interests 9. Shaping Human Rights and Development Futures
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