Abstract
The study of human rights is now expanding in sociology, despite disciplinary blind spots. Here Nashoutlines the implicationsof studyinghumanrights in relation to globalization and state transformation, the limits of legalization, and questions of solidarity and subjectivity. The 'human rights field' links micro-social interactions to macro-institutional structures, conflicts over particular human rights cases to state formation, and to the social and cultural relationships in which they are embedded. © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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- 'human rights field' linking micro-social to macro-institutional structures
- 'methodological nationalism', sociologists have tended to equate 'society'
- Globalization of human rights, straining legal convention of sovereignty
- Human rights, globalization and state transformation
- Human rights, predominantly, though not exclusively, individual rights
- Legal judgment, identifying/rectifying violations of civil rights
- Searching out international allies, INGOs, powerfully positioned in IGOs
- Structures of participation
- Towards a political sociology of human rights
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Nash, K. (2012). Towards a Political Sociology of Human Rights. In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology (pp. 444–453). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444355093.ch39
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