TY - BOOK AU - Straus,Scott AU - Stern,Steve J. ED - Project Muse. TI - The human rights paradox: universality and its discontents T2 - Critical human rights SN - 9780299299736 AV - JC571 .H769684 2014 U1 - 323 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Madison, Wisconsin PB - The University of Wisconsin Press KW - Human rights advocacy KW - Human rights KW - History KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Introduction. Embracing paradox: human rights in a global age / Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus -- Part I. Who makes human rights? -- Human rights history from the ground up: the case of East Timor / Geoff Robinson -- Rights on display: museums and human rights claims / Bridget Conley-Zilkic -- Civilian agency in times of crisis: lessons from Burundi / Meghan Foster Lynch -- Part II. Interrogating classic concepts -- Consulting survivors: evidence from Cambodia, northern Uganda, and other countries affected by mass violence / Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham -- "Memoria, verdad y justicia": the terrain of post-dictatorship social reconstruction and the struggle for human rights in Argentina / Noa Vaisman -- Rethinking transitional justice: reflections on the paradoxes of accountability efforts in Peru / Jo-Marie Burt -- Part III. New horizons -- The aporias of new technologies for human rights activism / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- The human right to water in rural India: promises and challenges / Philippe Cullet -- A very promising species: from Hobbes to the human right to water / Richard P. Hiskes UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780299299736/ ER -