Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights

<p><em>Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History Politics Practice</em> is an edited collection that brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines. Within the academic sphere this book will garner interest from scholars who are invested in human rights as a field of study as well as those who research and are engaged in the praxis of human rights.</p><p>Referring to the historical and cross-cultural study of human rights the volume engages with disciplinary debates in political philosophy gender and women’s studies Global South/Third World studies international relations psychology and anthropology. At the same time the authors employ diverse methodologies including oral history theoretical and discourse analysis ethnography and literary and cinema studies. Within the field of human rights studies this book attends to the critical academic gap on interdisciplinary and praxis-based approaches to the field as opposed to a predominantly legalistic focus drawing from case studies from a wide range of contexts in the Global South including Bangladesh Colombia Haiti India Mexico Palestine and Sudan as well as from Australia and the United States in the Global North.</p><p>For students who will go on to become researchers practitioners policy makers and activists this collection of essays will demonstrate the multifaceted landscape of human rights and the multiple forces (philosophical political cultural economic historical) that affect it.</p>