The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions
Responding to Complex Global Challenges
Published on 18. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
286 pages
978-1-5099-4787-4 (ISBN)
Description
What does the right to the continuous improvement of living conditions in Article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights really mean and how can it contribute to social change? The book explores how this underdeveloped right can have valuable application in response to global problems of poverty, inequality and climate destruction, through an in-depth consideration of its meaning.
The book seeks to interpret and give meaning to the right as a legal standard, giving it practical value for those whose living conditions are inadequate. It locates the right within broader philosophical and political debates, whilst also assessing the challenges to its realisation. It also explores how the right relates to human rights more generally and considers its application to issues of gender, care and the rights of Indigenous peoples. The contributors deeply probe the meaning of 'living conditions', suggesting that these encompass more than the basic rights to housing, water, food, and clothing. The chapters provide a range of doctrinal, historical and philosophical engagements through grounded analysis and imaginative interpretation.
With a foreword by Sandra Liebenberg (former Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), the book includes chapters from renowned and emerging scholars working across disciplines from around the world.
The book seeks to interpret and give meaning to the right as a legal standard, giving it practical value for those whose living conditions are inadequate. It locates the right within broader philosophical and political debates, whilst also assessing the challenges to its realisation. It also explores how the right relates to human rights more generally and considers its application to issues of gender, care and the rights of Indigenous peoples. The contributors deeply probe the meaning of 'living conditions', suggesting that these encompass more than the basic rights to housing, water, food, and clothing. The chapters provide a range of doctrinal, historical and philosophical engagements through grounded analysis and imaginative interpretation.
With a foreword by Sandra Liebenberg (former Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), the book includes chapters from renowned and emerging scholars working across disciplines from around the world.
Reviews / Votes
In addressing a long-neglected element of international human rights law ... this ground-breaking volume makes a key contribution to human rights scholarship. The excellent essays advance understanding in multiple scholarly areas, including the theory and implementation of economic and social rights, sustainable development, economic equality and the aims and achievements of the post-WW2 human rights project. This important book will be a must-read for academics, activists and policy-makers working in these areas. * Aoife Nolan, Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Nottingham, UK * The right to the continuous improvement of living conditions has been neglected in the past, and risks being ridiculed in a future in which the need to save the planet from uninhabitability will require radically different economic strategies and approaches to growth. This book brilliantly rescues the concept and shows how it could and should become central to the most pressing debates in the human rights field. * Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University, USA * As the first piece of scholarship dedicated to an extensive investigation of this neglected right, The Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions offers an extremely novel and valuable contribution to not only the field of socioeconomic rights, but international rights discourse more broadly. * Human Rights Review *More details
Series
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
ISBN-13
978-1-5099-4787-4 (9781509947874)
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Additional editions
Jessie Hohmann | Beth Goldblatt
The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions
Responding to Complex Global Challenges
E-Book
10/2021
1st Edition
Hart Publishing
€48.49
Available for download
Jessie Hohmann | Beth Goldblatt
The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions
Responding to Complex Global Challenges
E-Book
10/2021
1st Edition
Hart Publishing
€48.49
Available for download
Persons
Jessie Hohmann is Associate Professor and Beth Goldblatt is Professor, both in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Content
Foreword
Sandra Liebenberg (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
1. Introduction: Situating the Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Considering its Interpretations and Applications
Jessie Hohmann (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) and Beth Goldblatt (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
2. Sources for A Nascent Interpretation of the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions: The Travaux Preparatoires and the Work of the CESCR
Jessie Hohmann (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
3. Cooperating to Continuously Improve
Meghan Campbell (University of Birmingham, UK)
4. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions as a Response to Poverty
Luke D Graham (Coventry University, UK)
5. Is Financial Inclusion a Proxy for Continuously Improving Living Conditions?
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky (Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro, Argentina) and Francisco Cantamutto (National University of the South, Argentina)
6. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Progressive Realisation: The Case of the Right to Social Security in Canada
Lucie Lamarche (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada)
7. Understanding Forgotten Rights
Naomi Lott (University of Nottingham, UK)
8. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Human Rights of Future Generations - A Circle Impossible to Square?
Sigrun I Skogly (Lancaster University, UK)
9. New Synergies and Possibilities in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: From Dignified Life to the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions
Isaac de Paz Gonzalez (Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico)
10. (Dis)Continuous Improvement: Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Lobster and Child Welfare
Jeffery Hewitt (York University, Canada)
11. The Work of Living - Social Reproduction and the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions
Beth Goldblatt (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
12. Measure for Measure: The Challenges of Measuring Continuous Improvement and Lessons from the Sustainable Development Goals
Sandra Fredman (University of Oxford, UK)
13. Entangled Rights and Reproductive Temporality: Legal Form, Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions, and Social Reproduction
Ruth Fletcher (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Sandra Liebenberg (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
1. Introduction: Situating the Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Considering its Interpretations and Applications
Jessie Hohmann (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) and Beth Goldblatt (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
2. Sources for A Nascent Interpretation of the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions: The Travaux Preparatoires and the Work of the CESCR
Jessie Hohmann (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
3. Cooperating to Continuously Improve
Meghan Campbell (University of Birmingham, UK)
4. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions as a Response to Poverty
Luke D Graham (Coventry University, UK)
5. Is Financial Inclusion a Proxy for Continuously Improving Living Conditions?
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky (Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro, Argentina) and Francisco Cantamutto (National University of the South, Argentina)
6. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Progressive Realisation: The Case of the Right to Social Security in Canada
Lucie Lamarche (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada)
7. Understanding Forgotten Rights
Naomi Lott (University of Nottingham, UK)
8. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Human Rights of Future Generations - A Circle Impossible to Square?
Sigrun I Skogly (Lancaster University, UK)
9. New Synergies and Possibilities in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: From Dignified Life to the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions
Isaac de Paz Gonzalez (Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico)
10. (Dis)Continuous Improvement: Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Lobster and Child Welfare
Jeffery Hewitt (York University, Canada)
11. The Work of Living - Social Reproduction and the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions
Beth Goldblatt (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
12. Measure for Measure: The Challenges of Measuring Continuous Improvement and Lessons from the Sustainable Development Goals
Sandra Fredman (University of Oxford, UK)
13. Entangled Rights and Reproductive Temporality: Legal Form, Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions, and Social Reproduction
Ruth Fletcher (Queen Mary University of London, UK)