Intersectionality and Human Rights Law
Published on 10. December 2020
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-5099-3529-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays analyses how diversity in human identity and disadvantage affects the articulation, realisation, violation and enforcement of human rights.
The question arises from the realisation that people, who are severally and severely disadvantaged because of their race, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, class etc, often find themselves at the margins of human rights; their condition seldom improved and sometimes even worsened by the rights discourse. How does one make sense of this relationship between the complexity of people's disadvantage and violation of their human rights? Does the human rights discourse, based on its universal and common values, have tools, methods or theories to capture and respond to the difference in people's lived experience of rights? Can intersectionality help in that quest? This book seeks to inaugurate this line of inquiry.
The question arises from the realisation that people, who are severally and severely disadvantaged because of their race, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, class etc, often find themselves at the margins of human rights; their condition seldom improved and sometimes even worsened by the rights discourse. How does one make sense of this relationship between the complexity of people's disadvantage and violation of their human rights? Does the human rights discourse, based on its universal and common values, have tools, methods or theories to capture and respond to the difference in people's lived experience of rights? Can intersectionality help in that quest? This book seeks to inaugurate this line of inquiry.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5099-3529-1 (9781509935291)
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Persons
Shreya Atrey is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford.
Peter Dunne is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol.
Peter Dunne is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol.
Content
Introduction: Intersectionality from Equality to Human Rights
Shreya Atrey, University of Oxford, UK
1. Beyond Universality: An Intersectional Justification of Human Rights
Shreya Atrey, University of Oxford, UK
2. Harnessing the Full Potential of Intersectionality Theory in International Human Rights Law: Lessons from Disabled Children's Right to Education
Gauthier de Beco, University of Huddersfield, UK
3. The Potential and Pitfalls of Intersectionality in the Context of Social Rights Adjudication
Colm O'Cinneide, University College London, UK
4. The Right to Education and Substantive Equality: An Intersectional Reading
Sandra Fredman, University of Oxford, UK
5. Class, Intersectionality, the Right to Housing and the Avoidable Tragedy of Grenfell Tower
Geraldine Van Bueren KC, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
6. Intersectionality, Repeal and Reproductive Rights in Ireland
Fiona de Londras, University of Birmingham, UK
7. The Distance Between Us: Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of Rural Women and Girls
Meghan Campbell, University of Birmingham, UK
Shreya Atrey, University of Oxford, UK
1. Beyond Universality: An Intersectional Justification of Human Rights
Shreya Atrey, University of Oxford, UK
2. Harnessing the Full Potential of Intersectionality Theory in International Human Rights Law: Lessons from Disabled Children's Right to Education
Gauthier de Beco, University of Huddersfield, UK
3. The Potential and Pitfalls of Intersectionality in the Context of Social Rights Adjudication
Colm O'Cinneide, University College London, UK
4. The Right to Education and Substantive Equality: An Intersectional Reading
Sandra Fredman, University of Oxford, UK
5. Class, Intersectionality, the Right to Housing and the Avoidable Tragedy of Grenfell Tower
Geraldine Van Bueren KC, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
6. Intersectionality, Repeal and Reproductive Rights in Ireland
Fiona de Londras, University of Birmingham, UK
7. The Distance Between Us: Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of Rural Women and Girls
Meghan Campbell, University of Birmingham, UK