Thursday, November 22, 2012

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 16, no. 8, 2012) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Issue: New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights
    • Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short & Matthew Waites, Foreword
    • Lydia Morris, Understanding torture: the strengths and the limits of social theory
    • Haifa Rashed & Damien Short, Genocide and settler colonialism: can a Lemkin-inspired genocide perspective aid our understanding of the Palestinian situation?
    • Irene Bruna Seu, ‘In countries like that…’ moral boundaries and implicatory denial in response to human rights appeals
    • Ross McGarry, Gabe Mythen & Sandra Walklate, The soldier, human rights and the military covenant: a permissible state of exception?
    • Tracey Skillington, Climate change and the human rights challenge: extending justice beyond the borders of the nation state
    • Tanya Golash-Boza & Cecilia Menjívar, Causes and consequences of international migration: sociological evidence for the right to mobility
    • Nicholas Connolly, Corporate social responsibility: a duplicitous distraction?
    • Samantha Punch, Ian McIntosh & Ruth Emond, ‘You have a right to be nourished and fed, but do I have a right to make sure you eat your food?’: children's rights and food practices in residential care