Human rights at the intersections : : transformation through local, global, and cosmopolitan landscapes / / [edited by] Anthony Tirado Chase, Sofia Gruskin, Pardis Mahdavi and Hussein Banai.

• TeilnehmendeR: Banai, Hussein,; Mahdavi, Pardis,; Gruskin, Sofia,; Chase, Anthony Tirado,
• Place / Publishing House: London [England] : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2022.; [London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international rights regime, human rights activists have forged alliances with non-state and sub-state actors as a point of entry for the implementation of human rights law. These recent developments complicate conventional analysis of rela...

Table of Contents

• Section 1: Introduction / by Chase, Gruskin, and Mahdavi
• Section 2: Exploding the Global/Local Binary in 'Cosmopolitan' Human Rights. 1. LaDawn Haglund (Arizona State University), 'Cosmopolitan Human Rights and Local Transformation: In Tension or in Tandem'? ; 2. Shareen Hertel (University of Connecticut), 'Mobilizing Empathy for a Truly Cosmopolitan Human Rights.' ; 3. Kristi Kenyon (University of Winnipeg), Relationship-based Cosmopolitanism Is Key to Meaningful but Messy Rights Protections. ; 4. Joe Hoover, (University of London), 'Cosmopolitanism's Abstractions Can Blind Us to Damaging Hierarchies of Humanity.' ; 5. Hussein Banai, (Indiana University) 'Everyday Cosmopolitanism.' ; 6. Bahey Eldin Hassan (Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies): 'On Global Norms Sustaining Local Human Rights Movements in the Arab World' ; 7. Pablo Abitbol (Montes de Mará, Colombia, Historic Memory Project): 'Rural Colombia and Global Norms: Building Peace from the Ground Up.'
• Section 3: Human Rights and Sub-state Actors: Cities and Global Norms. 1. Nelson Camilo Sanchez (University of Virginia), 'Cosmopolitan Cities in an Illiberal World.' ; 2. Michael Goodhart (University of Pittsburgh): 'The Future of Human Rights is Local: Human Rights Cities and Local Politics' ; 3. Anthony Tirado Chase, 'Truth and Accountability in Los Angeles: Global Norms Informing City Reckoning Around Racial Justice' ; 4. Gaea Morales (University of Southern California), 'Cities and International Relations' ; 5. Erin Bromaghim and Angela Kim (Los Angeles Mayor's Office): 'The Sustainable Development Goals and City Policy in Los Angeles' ; 6. Thalia Gonzĺez (Occidental College), 'Cities and Human Rights in the United States'
• Section 4: Sexuality, Sexual Rights, and Reproductive Rights. 1. Rajat Khosla /Kate Gilmore (Amnesty International), 'Sex, sexuality, and sexual and reproductive health: the role of human rights' ; 2. Momin Rahman (Trent University), 'The homocolonialist' test for global LGBTQ+ & SOGIE rights strategies ; 3. Mauro Cabral (GATE/Argentina) 'The reform of medical protocols and law reform in light of the changes to the ICD: Improving the health and rights of transgender populations' ; 4. Morgan Carpenter (Intersex Australia), 'Intersex Health and Human Rights') ; 5. Vera Paiva (Professor, University of Säo Paulo) ; 6. Pascale Allotey (Director of United Nations University Institute for Global Health, Malaysia)
• Section 5: Feminism and the Triple Bind. 1. William Simmons (University of Arizona), 'Paternal Ignorance in Human Rights Devalues Knowledge of Marginalized Populations' ; 2. Dolores Trevizo (Occidental College), 'What Can Intersectional Approaches Reveal About Violence'? ; 3. Lara Stemple (UCLA), 'Claiming Gender for 'women only' Runs Counter to Fundamental Notions of Equality' ; 4. Amr Shalakany (American University in Cairo), 'Thinking Feminism and Feminist Movements and the Arab Spring' ; 5. Kathy Spillar (Executive Director of Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. Magazine) ; 6. Gloria Steinem feminist social commentator and author
• Section 6: Concluding Roundtable
• Index.