Politics of Human Rights or Geographies of Globalization

Politics of Human Rights: A Global Perspective

Author: Tony Evans

This is a new edition of this popular introduction to the politics of human rights.Tony Evans argues that the state's central role in protecting and promoting rights has been severely weakened under globalization and that as a consequence human rights are becoming less attainable.

As the value of the market grows, the value of individual human rights decreases. The author departs from traditional interpretations of human rights by focusing on the political economy of human rights rather than on the philosophical or legal aspects. He analyses how issues related to globalization, such as the environment, population movement patterns and free trade impact on individual human rights. In conclusion, he argues that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other major treaties must be renegotiated to take globalization into account.

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Evans (politics, University of Southampton, UK) argues that globalization weakens traditionally held assumptions about the development and implementation of human rights. He departs from traditional approaches to human rights by focusing on the political economy of human rights rather than on philosophical or legal aspects. He analyzes how issues related to globalization, such as the environment, population movements, and free trade, impact on individual rights. In conclusion, he contends that the political economy provides a context that should alert us to pressing problems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : globalization and the study of universal human rights	1
1	The politics of universal human rights	12
2	The discourse of universal human rights	35
3	International human rights law and global politics	55
4	The political economy of human rights	77
5	Globalization, democracy and human rights	101
6	The promise of global community and human rights	126

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Geographies of Globalization

Author: Warwick Murray

Globalization is a term that is increasingly used to rationalize a wide range of economic and political processes and explain a plethora of cultural, economic and social processes. Despite this, it is rarely well defined or critically appraised. As both a process and political agenda, it is a theme that has become increasingly pervasive in human geography written in the last 20 years.

Geographies of Globalization critically engages with the contested concept of globalization from an explicitly human geographical viewpoint, illustrating how an appreciation of the principles of the discipline is fundamental to understanding this phenomenon. It also analyses the geographical work of non-geographers. Part 1 introduces the concept of globalization, while also discussing various theories and perspectives, drawing out their spatial ramifications and placing them in historical perspective. Part 2 breaks down and analyses the process into overlapping economic, political and socio-economic spheres emphasizing the links and breaks between change in these areas. The environmental impacts of globalization are integrated throughout. Part 3 uses case studies from the UK, USA, Argentina and Mozambique to ground the processes introduced in the previous part. Part 4 draws together the theoretical, historical and empirical analysis in order to reflect on the changing nature of globalization, resistance to it and the implications of this for human geography.

In summarizing and analyzing the major arguments put forward to explain, promote and criticize globalization, the reader is provided with a critical resource through which to make sense of the confusing array of competingperspectives. Boxed sections highlight and explain "key concepts" in a jargon free manner and showcase classic and innovative work by geographers in the field. The book is highly illustrated with figures and photographs, as well as chapter summaries and annotated further reading.