Urban Politics of Human Rights / / Janne E. Nijman [and four others] editors.
"Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, underline common aspirations. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of human rights are at the heart of this book....
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, New York : : Taylor & Francis,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Urban politics of human rights / B. Oomen, E. Durmus, S. Miellet, J.E. Nijman, L. Roodenburg
- Reconsidering extraterritorial human rights obligations of cities and local governments : reassessing apartheid divestment ordinances in the United States, 1975-1994 / A. Novak
- Human rights within the context of urbanization : focusing on the Kirşhehir province and the cultural rights of the Abdals / A.E. Gürlek
- A tale of two cities : comparison of Istanbul and San Francisco through the right to housing / A. Can
- Urban politics and the human rights city : the case of Bologna / T. Sabchev
- Beyond minimum protection : the politics of housing rights in the city / P. Fernandez-Wulff
- How urban law deflects rights claims : a case study of the eviction of a Roma squatter settlement in Malmö, Sweden / K. Åberg, F. Batzler, M. Persdotter
- Decolonising human rights : the rise of Nairobi's social justice centres / P. Jones & G. Gachihi
- Resisting marginalisation in the world class city : eking out a legal right to public presence in the city of Cape Town / M. Pieterse
- Human rights mobilisation in São Paulo's policy response to COVID-19 / P. Vormittag.