After Abu Ghraib : exploring human rights in America and the Middle East / Shadi Mokhtari.
2009
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After Abu Ghraib : exploring human rights in America and the Middle East / Shadi Mokhtari.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description
1 online resource (ix, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Formatted Contents Note
American imaginings of human rights and the Middle East
The human rights challenge from within
The Middle Eastern gaze on American human rights commitments
American imprints and the Middle East's new human rights landscape
From the ashes of the post-September 11th era : lessons for the human rights project.
The human rights challenge from within
The Middle Eastern gaze on American human rights commitments
American imprints and the Middle East's new human rights landscape
From the ashes of the post-September 11th era : lessons for the human rights project.
Summary
This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration's 'War on Terror' torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional West to East flow of human rights mobilizations and discourses) and Middle Eastern attempts to challenge their own leaders' human rights violations in light of American interventions. This book presents snapshots of human rights being appropriated, promoted, claimed, reclaimed and contested within and between the American and Middle Eastern contexts. The inquiry has three facets: first, it explores intersections between human rights norms and power as they unfold in the era. Second, it lays out the layers of the era's American and Middle Eastern encounter on the human rights plane. Finally, it draws out the era's key lessons for moving the human rights project forward.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511581052 ebook
9780521767538 (hardback)
9781107401488 (paperback)
9780521767538 (hardback)
9781107401488 (paperback)
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