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ISBN 10: 1138807672
ISBN 13: 978-1138807679
Author: Anthony Chase
Recent events such as ‘Iran’s Green Revolution’ and the ‘Arab Uprisings’ have exploded notions that human rights are irrelevant to Middle Eastern and North African politics. Increasingly seen as a global concern, human rights are at the fulcrum of the region’s on-the-ground politics, transnational intellectual debates, and global political intersections.
The Routledge Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa:
- emphasises the need to consider human rights in all their dimensions, rather than solely focusing on the political dimension, in order to understand the structural reasons behind the persistence of human rights violations;
- explores the various frameworks in which to consider human rights―conceptual, political and transnational/international;
- discusses issue areas subject to particularly intense debate―gender, religion, sexuality, transitions and accountability;
- contains contributions from perspectives that span from global theory to grassroots reflections, emphasising the need for academic work on human rights to seriously engage with the thoughts and practices of those working on the ground.
A multidisciplinary approach from scholars with a wide range of expertise allows the book to capture the complex dynamics by which human rights have had, or could have, an impact on Middle Eastern and North African politics. This book will therefore be a key resource for students and scholars of Middle Eastern and North African politics and society, as well as anyone with a concern for Human Rights across the globe.
Routledge Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa 1st Table of contents:
PART I Frameworks
SECTION I Introduction and overview
1 Human rights and the Middle East and North Africa: indivisibility, social rights, and structural change
Anthony Tirado Chase
SECTION II A conceptual framework: political, economic, and cultural rights in the Middle East and North Africa
2 Political legitimacy, contingency, and rights in the Middle East and North Africa
Hussein Banai
3 Economic rights in the Middle East and North Africa
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
4 Cultural rights in the Middle East and North Africa: art, revolution, and repression
Mark LeVine
SECTION III A political framework: intersecting human rights and governance crises in the Middle East and North Africa
5 Genocide in the contemporary Middle East: a historical and comparative regional perspective
Martin Shaw
6 The ISIS crisis and the broken politics of the Arab World: a framework for understanding Radical Islamism
Nader Hashemi
7 The impact of the AKP on human rights in Turkey: one step forward, two steps back
Turan Kayaoglu
8 The politics of human rights in Iran since the Green Movement
Shadi Mokhtari and Neda Nazmi
9 Narrating law: Israel and the Occupied Territories
Kathleen Cavanaugh
10 The United States and Israeli violations of international humanitarian law
Stephen Zunes
SECTION IV A transnational and international framework: human rights beyond borders
11 Rival transnational advocacy networks and Middle East politics at the U.N. Human Rights Council
Laura K. Landolt
12 Redefining rights: Organization of Islamic Cooperation attempts to reshape values in the U.N. human rights system
Ann Mayer
13 Human rights, youth, and technology: agents of change?
Mahmood Monshipouri
14 Rights, refugees, and the case of Syria: what do human rights offer?
Kathleen Hamill
PART II Issues
SECTION V Gender and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
15 Colliding rights and wrongs: intimate labor, health, human rights, and the state in the Gulf
Pardis Mahdavi
16 Turning back the clock: population policy and human rights in Iran
Homa Hoodfar
17 Women’s rights in the Middle East: constitutions and consequences
Anicée Van Engeland
18 The Arab uprisings and the future of human rights
Micheline Ishay
SECTION VI Religion and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
19 Shari`ah and human rights
Khaled Abou El Fadl
20 Islam, the principle of subjectivity, and individual human rights
Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
21 The OIC, human rights, and religion: rejection, reconciliation, or reconceptualization?
Marie Juul Petersen
22 Rhetoric versus reality: American foreign policy and religious freedom in the Middle East
Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
SECTION VII Transitions and accountability in the Middle East and North Africa
23 Core transitional justice debates in the Middle East and beyond
Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm
24 Courts as a tool in transitions: lessons from the special tribunal for Lebanon
Chandra Lekha Sriram
25 Lessons on transitioning from authoritarianism: pitfalls and promise from Tunisia’s experience
Rim El Gantri
26 The impact of impunity on violating cultural rights in Morocco
Osire Glacier
PART III Conclusions: global theory and grassroots reflections
SECTION VIII Conclusions from a global viewpoint: theoretical justifications and contestations around human rights
27 International human rights at 70: has the Enlightenment project run aground?
David P. Forsythe
28 On the local relevance of human rights
Koen de Feyter
29 Israel/Palestine, human rights and domination
Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon
30 The quest for constructive criticism: critical approaches to human rights
Alison Brysk
31 Making human rights ‘universals’ from the ground up?
Lisa S. Alfredson
SECTION IX Conclusions from a grassroots viewpoint: reflections on dynamics around struggles for human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
32 Reflections on three decades of human rights work in the Arab region
Fateh Azzam
33 Egypt 2011–15: how can a democratic revolution fail to improve human rights conditions?
Amr Hamzawy
34 Reflections on human rights before and after the Arab Spring
Bahey eldin Hassan
35 Human rights, law and politics: a reflection on human rights work in the Middle East and North Africa
Lynn Welchman
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