Human Rights Discourse in Domestic Settings: How does it Emerge?

Gordon, Neve; Berkovitch, Nitza

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00651.x

Cited by 54 publications

(28 citation statements)

References 51 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The rapid emergence of rights NGOs occurred following the outbreak of the first Palestinian Intifada in December 1987. Within a period of three years, about 15 additional rights NGOs were established with most, but not all, dealing with violations relating to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict (Gordon and Berkovitch 2007). In the 1990s an additional group of rights NGOs appeared on the scene focusing mostly on violations taking place in Israel (pre‐1967 borders).…”

Section: The Israeli Case: Background Method and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Economy of Transnational Regimes: The Case of Human Rights

Berkovitch

Gordon

2008

International Studies Quarterly

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Focusing on the flow of funding to human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs), we begin in this article to broach one of the least studied issues pertaining to transnational regimes-namely, their material underpinnings. Through an analysis of the patterns of donor funding to human rights NGOs, we underscore the triangulation between states, donors, and rights NGOs, whereby states have an impact on donor preferences, which, in turn, influences the agenda of human rights NGOs and their modes of operation, and these, in their turn, help shape the kind of NGO criticism voiced against the state. By emphasizing the important and frequently missing link of donors, we thus complicate the discussion concerning the impact human rights networks have on state policies and practices, showing how rights NGOs simultaneously weaken and strengthen the state. Accordingly, our examination of the political economy of human rights adds a new dimension to the literature analyzing how the state both reconfigures and is reconfigured by transnational regimes.While most scholars acknowledge the existence of a robust human rights regime within the international arena, there is an ongoing debate about whether this regime has had a significant impact on state policies and practices. In this article, we claim that one of the issues missing from the debate is the political economy of human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which are the major actors within the rights regime. We argue that in order to understand the potential rights NGOs have to alter state policies and to bring about social change, as well as some of the reasons why this potential is often foiled, it is crucial to consider the economic field within which the NGOs operate. By taking into account the impact of the economic field, we hope not only to broaden the discussion concerning the ability of the human rights regime to influence state policies and practices, but also to lay bare some of the more intricate ways through which the global and the state interact.The research examining the impact of human rights norms on state policies and practices (Brysk

show abstract

Section: The Israeli Case: Background Method and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Economy of Transnational Regimes: The Case of Human Rights

Berkovitch

Gordon

2008

International Studies Quarterly

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This proliferation is not only a function of the normative imperatives issued by the main institutions of the global Human Rights Regime, but also about the localization of cosmopolitan expectations based on pre-existing legal ideals (Acharya 2004). Cosmopolitization rather than undermining states strengthens them, substantiating the claim that synchronic cosmopolitan imperatives simultaneously produce convergence (of legitimating principles) and particularism as the endogenization of these imperatives is subject to path-dependent features (Gordon and Berkovitch 2007). To be sure, cosmopolitanism seeks validation by adhering to universalistic features.…”

Section: Recursive Cosmopolitization and The Limits Of Universalismmentioning

confidence: 85%

Recursive cosmopolitization: Argentina and the global Human Rights Regime

Lévy

2010

British Journal of Sociology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper illustrates how varieties of cosmopolitanism are shaped through a mutually constitutive set of cultural dispositions and institutional practices that emerge at the interstices of global human right norms and local legal practices. Converging pressures of 'cosmopolitan imperatives' and the multiplicity of particularized manifestations are co-evolving in the context of intercrossings during which distinctive cosmopolitanisms are established. This complex relationship of global normative expectations and their local appropriations is elucidated through the dynamic of recursive cosmopolitization. Suggesting that, local problems are resolved with recourse to global prescriptions while local solutions are inscribed in international institutions consolidating the global Human Rights Regime. The Argentinean case carries conceptual and empirical weight as it underscores the recursivity of cosmopolitization by calibrating the tensions of universalism and particularism at the intersection of global, national and regional scales. Argentina is a paradigmatic instantiation for how cosmopolitanism can emanate in the periphery as local problems are globalized. This, in turn, has resulted in the institutionalization of a global Human Rights Regime which exercises normative and political-legal pressures on how states legitimately deal with human rights abuses. It is this cosmopolitan balance, rather than presuppositions of universalistic exogenous pressures or particularistic national exceptions, which is shaping the cultural and political relevance of human rights norms.

show abstract

“…32 -54, Gordon andBerkovitch 2007). Its expansion and domestication have also been influenced by norms and ideas that transmit from the global conception to a differentiated view of the local (Gordon and Berkovitch 2007). In other words, the local events and practices are important in determining the impact of the global on national settings.…”

Section: Recent Human Rights and Citizenship Discourse In Africamentioning

confidence: 96%

The quest for inclusion and citizenship in Ghana: challenges and prospects

Oduro

2009

Citizenship Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Ghana's tortuous journey to democracy received a major boost in the year 2006 with the enactments of two human-rights-related pieces of legislation. In this article the author contends, on the one hand, that the recent enactments of an amendment to the law on representation of the people and the persons with disability law in Ghana constituted a noteworthy landmark in the search for inclusive citizenship. On the other hand, the relation between society and the political authority during the processes of the enactments highlighted characteristics of a post-colonial African state. The author explores the antagonisms that surrounded the enactments of these laws. The article concludes that although the Ghanaian experience represents a new wave of re-thinking of rights in Africa, it also underscores the deep-seated issues of contestation and negotiations that unavoidably accompany the expansion of democracy and extension of rights to the excluded and the marginalized.

show abstract

Human Rights Discourse in Domestic Settings: How does it Emerge?

Cited by 54 publications

References 51 publications

The Political Economy of Transnational Regimes: The Case of Human Rights

The Political Economy of Transnational Regimes: The Case of Human Rights

Recursive cosmopolitization: Argentina and the global Human Rights Regime

The quest for inclusion and citizenship in Ghana: challenges and prospects

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About