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oapen-20.500.12657-593042022-11-19T03:38:52Z Urban Politics of Human Rights Nijman, Janne Oomen, Barbara Durmuş, Elif Miellet, Sara Roodenburg, Lisa Cities;Human Rights;Human Rights Cities;Local Government;Mobilisation;Moral Urbanism;Planetary Urbanisation;Right to the City;Urban Justice;Urban Law;Urban Politics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSG Urban communities bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms::JPVH Human rights Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspirations, or to protect vested (private) interests. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of human rights are at the heart of this book. An international line-up of contributors with long-term engagement in this field shed light on these politics in cities on four continents and eight cities, presenting a wealth of empirical detail and disciplinary theoreticalisation perspectives. They analyse the ‘city society’, the urban actors involved, and the mechanisms of human rights mobilisation. In doing so, they show the commonalities in rights engagement in today’s globalised and often deeply unequal cities characterised by urban law, private capital but also communities that rally around concepts as the ‘right to the city’. Most importantly, the chapters highlight the conditions under which this mobilisation truly contributes to social justice, be it concerning the simple right to presence, cultural rights, accessible housing or – in times of COVID – health care. Urban Politics of Human Rights provides indispensable reading for anyone with a practical or theoretical interest in the complex, deeply political, and at times also truly promising interrelationship between human rights and the urban. 2022-11-18T14:04:40Z 2022-11-18T14:04:40Z 2023 book 9781000774672 9781032299037 9781032325439 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59304 eng Cities and Global Governance application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781000774672.pdf http://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/agentjpg/978100331/9781003315544.jpg Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003315544 10.4324/9781003315544 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000774672 9781032299037 9781032325439 Routledge 8 249 open access
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Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspirations, or to protect vested (private) interests. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of human rights are at the heart of this book.
An international line-up of contributors with long-term engagement in this field shed light on these politics in cities on four continents and eight cities, presenting a wealth of empirical detail and disciplinary theoreticalisation perspectives. They analyse the ‘city society’, the urban actors involved, and the mechanisms of human rights mobilisation. In doing so, they show the commonalities in rights engagement in today’s globalised and often deeply unequal cities characterised by urban law, private capital but also communities that rally around concepts as the ‘right to the city’. Most importantly, the chapters highlight the conditions under which this mobilisation truly contributes to social justice, be it concerning the simple right to presence, cultural rights, accessible housing or – in times of COVID – health care.
Urban Politics of Human Rights provides indispensable reading for anyone with a practical or theoretical interest in the complex, deeply political, and at times also truly promising interrelationship between human rights and the urban.
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