Urban politics of human rights / / edited by Janne E. Nijman [and four others].

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Superior document:Cities and Global Governance Ser.
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, London : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Cities and Global Governance Ser.
Physical Description:1 online resource (249 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Endorsements
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of images
  • List of contributors
  • 1. General introduction: Urban politics of human rights
  • PART 1: Exploring the urban
  • 2. Reconsidering extraterritorial human rights obligations of cities and local governments: Apartheid divestment ordinances in the United States, 1975-1994
  • 3. Human rights within the context of urbanisation: Focusing on the cultural rights of Abdals in Kýrþehir (Turkey)
  • 4. A tale of two cities: Comparison of Istanbul and San Francisco through right to housing
  • PART 2: Urbanising human rights
  • 5. Urban politics and the human rights city: The case of Bologna
  • 6. Beyond minimum protection: The politics of housing rights in the city
  • PART 3: City society
  • 7. How urban law deflects rights claims: A case study of the eviction of a Roma squatter settlement in Malmö, Sweden
  • 8. Decolonising human rights: The rise of Nairobi's Social Justice Centres
  • PART 4: Mechanisms of mobilisation
  • 9. Resisting marginalisation in the global city: Eking out a legal right to public presence in the City of Cape Town
  • 10. Human rights mobilisation in São Paulo's policy response to COVID-19
  • Index.