Globalization and human rights / Alison Brysk, editor.

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9780520936287

9781417508204

9781597346368

Title:

Globalization and human rights / Alison Brysk, editor.

Author:

Brysk, Alison, 1960- editor.

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1 online resource (x, 311 pages)

Contents:

Introduction: Transnational threats and opportunities / Who has a right to rights? Citizenship's exclusions in an age of migration / Tourism, sex work, and women's rights in the Dominican Republic / Interpreting the interaction of global markets and human rights / Economic globalization and rights: an empirical analysis / Sweatshops and international labor standards: globalizing markets, localizing norms / Ironies of information technology / Globalization and the social construction of human rights campaigns / Drama of human rights in a turbulent, globalized world / Transnational civil society campaigns and the World Bank Inspection Panel / Humanitarian intervention: global enforcement of human rights? / Human rights, globalizing flows, and state power

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Human rights.

Globalization.

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Brysk, Alison, 1960-

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Publication Date:

2002

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Summary

In this landmark volume, Alison Brysk has assembled an impressive array of scholars to address new questions about globalization and human rights. Is globalization generating both problems and opportunities? Are new problems replacing or intensifying state repression? How effective are new forms of human rights accountability?

These essays include theoretical analyses by Richard Falk, Jack Donnelly, and James Rosenau. Chapters on sex tourism, international markets, and communications technology bring new perspectives to emerging issues. The authors investigate places such as the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, and the Philippines.

The contemporary world is defined by globalization. While global human rights standards and institutions have been established, assaults on human dignity continue. These essays identify the new challenges to be faced, and suggest new ways to remedy the costs of globalization.

Author Notes

Brysk Alison :

Alison Brysk is Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her previous publications include The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change, and Democratization (1994) and From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America (2000).

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Choice Review

Brysk has assembled first-rate analysts for this volume, some well known (Jack Donnelly, Richard Falk, Richard Rosenau), others emerging. The range of topics in the 11 chapters (plus a helpful introduction and conclusion by the editor) is wide. These include exclusion from citizenship and increased emigration; tourism, sex work, and women's rights (focused on the Dominican Republic); empirical analysis of economic globalization; sweatshops and international labor standards; ironies of information technology; social construction of human rights norms (concentrated on the Ogoni of Nigeria); the World Bank's Inspection Panel; and humanitarian intervention. Brysk organizes the material around four C's: citizenship, commodification, communication, and cooperation. She suggests that the impact of globalization rests on the type involved, the level of analysis, and the type of state filtering communication flows. Persisting threats come mainly from states, while new threats are often generated (directly or indirectly) by markets. Global opportunities exist through connection, cosmopolitanism, communication, and commodification. However, a "citizenship gap" remains that will require diffuse but meaningful global citizenship. Advocates should distinguish their strategies by types of states. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. C. E. Welch SUNY at Buffalo