Description
What do equality, dignity and rights mean in a world where eight men own as much wealth as half the world's population? Contesting World Order? Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements examines how global justice movements have engaged the language of socioeconomic rights to contest global institutional structures and rules responsible for contributing to the persistence of severe poverty. Drawing upon perspectives from critical international relations studies and the activities of global justice movements, this book evaluates the 'counter-hegemonic' potential of socioeconomic rights discourse and its capacity to contribute towards an alternative to the prevailing neo-liberal 'common sense' of global governance.
Contesting World Order? explores how global justice movements have used socioeconomic rights to challenge neo-liberal global governance.
About the Author
Joe Wills is a Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Leicester, where he conducts research in the fields of human rights, animal rights and legal and political theory. He is one of eight researchers on a British Academy funded project investigating how the UK and South Africa compensate private losses resulting from failures to give effect to the special duties human and constitutional rights impose on public authorities. He has also contributed to an Academy of Finland and University of Turku funded project entitled 'Imagining Post-Neoliberal Regulatory Subjectivities'. He has published in the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.
Reviews
'The greatest strength of this book is its breadth of coverage and the wealth of material that is presented without any loss of depth. It provides a comprehensive summary of the legal issues at play for the disappearing small island community and is in that regard a useful reference point for further research in the field.' Katrina Peake, Human Rights Law Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781107176140
Author Joe Wills
Format Hardback
Page Count 314
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 620g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 157mm * 19mm
Contesting World Order? explores how global justice movements have used socioeconomic rights to challenge neo-liberal global governance.
About the Author
Joe Wills is a Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Leicester, where he conducts research in the fields of human rights, animal rights and legal and political theory. He is one of eight researchers on a British Academy funded project investigating how the UK and South Africa compensate private losses resulting from failures to give effect to the special duties human and constitutional rights impose on public authorities. He has also contributed to an Academy of Finland and University of Turku funded project entitled 'Imagining Post-Neoliberal Regulatory Subjectivities'. He has published in the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.
Reviews
'The greatest strength of this book is its breadth of coverage and the wealth of material that is presented without any loss of depth. It provides a comprehensive summary of the legal issues at play for the disappearing small island community and is in that regard a useful reference point for further research in the field.' Katrina Peake, Human Rights Law Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781107176140
Author Joe Wills
Format Hardback
Page Count 314
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 620g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 157mm * 19mm
