Human rights and the social construction of sovereignty

Reus-Smit, Christian

doi:10.1017/s0260210501005198

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“…The chief virtues claimed for alternative development are those of "human rights" and "human flourishing" (Friedmann 1992;Reus-Smit 2001) and along with the economic efficiency of financial assistance going directly to the people. Specific aims include building project activity upon intensive face-to-face interaction among stakeholders and developing appropriate technology fine tuned to local conditions, which helps to promote environmentally friendly and sustainable development.…”

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A State of the Art of Self Help Groups in India

Singh

Ruivenkamp

Jongerden

2011

Journal of Human Ecology

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This paper considers the strategies of self help group for micro-enterprise development in rural areas. It seeks to answer the question of whether and under which conditions self help groups are an effective vehicle for organizing and representing local people in the development of community based micro-enterprises. Focusing particularly on examples from India in the context of food as a local resource, special attention is paid to success and failure factors of self help groups. While self help group strategies have been applied in the past as a blind replication of success models without considering the intricacies involved in group formation, success of self help groups is based on a thorough understanding of local conditions and possibilities to intervene.

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Section: The Emergence Of Self Help Groupsmentioning

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A State of the Art of Self Help Groups in India

Singh

Ruivenkamp

Jongerden

2011

Journal of Human Ecology

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“…For example, where the human rights regime asserts a human right to 'liberty and the security of the person', this means in practice that 'each state has the responsibility and authority to protect and implement the right to liberty and security of persons within its territory' (Donnelly, 2003, 34). In this sense, we should view sovereignty and human rights as being conjoined rather than categorically opposed (Reus-Smit, 2001).…”

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‘The Rules of the Game are Changing’: Fundamental Human Rights in Crisis After 9/11

Dunne

2007

Int Polit

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Is there a crisis of legitimacy in relation to fundamental human rights commitments? At one level, the human rights regime has endured legitimacy problems from the outset, in part due to the scope and complexity of the standards but also as a result of the unwillingness of states to regard human rights norms as properly binding. I argue that September 11 and the responses this event triggered in the foreign policies of leading states in international society have taken the challenge to the regime to a new level. What makes it a crisis of legitimacy is the fact that those were crucial to the emergence of the regime, and the rights that are under siege are core 'rights of the person' and not aspirational rights. The closing discussion examines the possibility for a restoration of legitimacy. Consistent with the earlier theoretical discussion, the question of whether and how the legitimacy crisis can be resolved requires a differential response, depending on the site of the crisis, and the location of the audience. The concepts of international and world society provide analytical leverage in identifying both the causes of the crisis and the prospects for its resolution.

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“…To understand sovereignty in terms of statecraft, and to understand sovereignty in terms of a relation rather than an essence, requires a fundamental challenge to the popular use of territorial sovereignty (Reus-Smit 2001). It reconceptualises sovereignty away from much of its historical origins and political exclusivity (Weber 1995;Sassen 1996Sassen , 1998Sassen , 1999.…”

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Crimes of the State: The Persecution and Protection of Refugees

Pickering

2005

Crit Crim

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When refugees arrive at the borders and on the shores of the Global North they are increasingly criminalised and subject to a range of law and order type rhetoric and practices. This paper outlines an alternative criminological engagement with the condition of refugeehood that shifts the focus from the refugee to the practices of the state. First, it splices definitions of state crime with the highly legalistic refugee definition to offer alternative conceptualisations of persecution in the determination of who is accorded the legal status of refugee. Second, it applies state crime frameworks to the increasingly restrictive and punitive refugee policies of countries in the Global North. It concludes by locating theorisations of state crime within the broader project of reconceptualising notions of sovereignty.

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Human rights and the social construction of sovereignty

Cited by 194 publications

References 6 publications

A State of the Art of Self Help Groups in India

A State of the Art of Self Help Groups in India

‘The Rules of the Game are Changing’: Fundamental Human Rights in Crisis After 9/11

Crimes of the State: The Persecution and Protection of Refugees

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