1st Edition
Human Rights on the Edge The Future of International Human Rights Law and Practice
Foreword—The future of human rights: A research agenda
Alison Brysk
Introduction—Human rights on the edge: The future of international human rights law and practice
Tricia Redeker Hepner and Heather Smith-Cannoy
1. NGO repression as a predictor of worsening human rights abuses
Suparna Chaudhry and Andrew Heiss
2. New frontiers in international human rights: Actionable nonactionables and the (non)performance of perpetual becoming
Kamari Maxine Clarke
3. Epistemes of human rights in Kashmir: Paradoxes of universality and particularity
Sarbani Sharma
4. "Legal exhaustion" and the crisis of human rights: Tracing legal mobilization against sexual violence and torture of Kurdish women in state custody in Turkey since the 1990s
Nisa Göksel and Jaimie Morse
5. The boundaries of religion in international human rights law
Shanna Corner
6. Disentangling gendered peace: Observing gendered peace in policy
Anntiana Maral Sabeti
7. The evolution of the global movement to end child marriage
Andrea Vilán
Biography
Heather Smith-Cannoy is a Political Scientist at Arizona State University, where she directs the Global Human Rights Hub and the undergraduate degree program on Social Justice and Human Rights. She has published three books, and 15 articles and book chapters on human rights, international law, sex trafficking and gender.
Tricia Redeker Hepner is a Political and Legal Anthropologist at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on migration and displacement, transnationalism, human rights, transitional justice, militarism, and conflict/peace. She has published four books and more than twenty peer-reviewed journal articles or chapters. She directs ASU’s Master’s Program in Social Justice and Human Rights.
