Human Rights on the Edge

<p>This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human rights law and practice.</p><p>Many Western scholars are increasingly pessimistic about the future of international human rights law. However the contributions to this volume demonstrate that far from collapsing in the face of duress the concept of human rights has endured despite contractions and the spectre of co-option and manipulation by the powerful. In addition law is a malleable tool that is deployed in novel ways to promote human rights. The book illustrates that the power of human rights lies not in their essentialized transcendence of time culture and context but in their enduring promise that a more just world can emerge from sustained and creative struggle through against and at the margins of states law and institutions. The key questions to emerge are not whether human rights law and practice will survive but rather what are the forces that sustain revitalize and transform them? And what are human rights in the process of becoming?</p><p>This book will be of immense interest to those studying and researching across Politics Human Rights Gender and Law. It was originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of Human Rights. </i></p>