1st Edition
The Human Rights City New York, San Francisco, Barcelona
By Michele Grigolo
Copyright 2019
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with. Much less investigated is the question of what cities do with them, even though urban communities and municipalities have been discussing human rights for quite some time. In this volume, Grigolo borrows the concept of ‘the human rights city’ to invite us to think about a new urban utopia: a place... Read more
Acknowledgements
- Introducing the Human Rights City
- Tracking the Human Rights City
- Institutionalising Human Rights in the City
- The Urban Politics of Human Rights
- Anti-discrimination Policy in New York and Barcelona
- Implementing Human Rights in San Francisco and Barcelona
- A Sociology of the Human Rights City
Biography
Michele Grigolo is a lecturer in Sociology at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
