Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 249 pages) : illustrations |
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Stanford studies in human rights |
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Stanford studies in human rights.
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Contents |
A place to live : resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Felix Morka -- Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Duncan Kennedy -- Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice : South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- The evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania : structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Freeing Mohammed Zakari : rights as footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- Stones of hope : experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- The long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White |
Summary |
Stones of Hope shows how African human rights activists have opened new possibilities for justice in the everyday lives of the world's most impoverished peoples |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Human rights advocacy -- Africa -- Case studies
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Social rights -- Africa
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Human rights -- Africa
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Human rights
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Human rights advocacy
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Social rights
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Africa
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Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
White, Lucie, 1949-
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Perelman, Jeremy.
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ISBN |
9780804776431 |
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0804776431 |
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