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Author Allen, Lori, 1971- author.

Title The rise and fall of human rights : cynicism and politics in occupied Palestine / Lori Allen
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 258 pages)
Series Stanford studies in human rights
Stanford studies in human rights.
Contents The first human rights NGO : Al-Haq's faith in evidence -- The beginning of the decline : international aid and the production of bad faith -- Teaching human rights : citizens and security men in training -- Making up the face of the state : human rights in the creation of political authority -- Nationalizing human rights : the political ethics of Hamas
Summary The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world-its NGOs, activists, and ""victims,"" as well as their politics, training, and discourse-since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, it has since been professionalized and politicized, transformed into a public relations tool for political legitimization and state-making.In failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an accountable Palestinian government, the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Human rights advocacy -- Political aspects -- Palestine -- History
Palestinian Arabs -- Civil rights -- Gaza Strip -- History
Palestinian Arabs -- Civil rights -- West Bank -- History
Human rights -- Palestine -- History
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1973-1993.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993-
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Arab-Israeli conflict
Human rights
Palestinian Arabs -- Civil rights
Politics and government
SUBJECT Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1948- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097182
Subject Gaza Strip
Middle East -- Palestine
West Bank
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013005079
ISBN 0804785511
9780804785518