Human rights at the intersections: transformation through local, global, and cosmopolitan landscapes

"At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international rights regime, human rights activists have forged alliances with non-state and sub-state actors as a point of entry for the implementation of human rights law. These recent developments complicate conventional analysis of relationships between local actors, global norms, and cosmopolitanism. The "lived realities of human rights" explored centrally in this book are shown to exist outside of human rights' traditional state-centrism and beyond a local-cosmopolitan binary. The contributions in this collection critically engage with debates on localism and cosmopolitanism, weaving insights from social sciences, humanities, and medicine into a broader call for interdisciplinary scholarship informed by practice. Chapters draw together theoretical frameworks on localism and cosmopolitanism, with case studies ranging from the #metoo movement and Black Lives Matter to the human rights implications of Covid-19. Overall, the contributors argue that much of the work to be done centres on how human rights approaches can be better integrated across local and global institutions and better targeted towards grassroots-informed structural reform."--

Section 1: Introduction / by Chase, Gruskin, and Mahdavi -- Section 2: Exploding the Global/Local Binary in 'Cosmopolitan' Human Rights. 1. LaDawn Haglund (Arizona State University), 'Cosmopolitan Human Rights and Local Transformation: In Tension or in Tandem'? ; 2. Shareen Hertel (University of Connecticut), 'Mobilizing Empathy for a Truly Cosmopolitan Human Rights.' ; 3. Kristi Kenyon (University of Winnipeg), Relationship-based Cosmopolitanism Is Key to Meaningful but Messy Rights Protections. ; 4. Joe Hoover, (University of London), 'Cosmopolitanism's Abstractions Can Blind Us to Damaging Hierarchies of Humanity.' ; 5. Hussein Banai, (Indiana University) 'Everyday Cosmopolitanism.' ; 6. Bahey Eldin Hassan (Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies): 'On Global Norms Sustaining Local Human Rights Movements in the Arab World' ; 7. Pablo Abitbol (Montes de Mará, Colombia, Historic Memory Project): 'Rural Colombia and Global Norms: Building Peace from the Ground Up.' -- Section 3: Human Rights and Sub-state Actors: Cities and Global Norms. 1. Nelson Camilo Sanchez (University of Virginia), 'Cosmopolitan Cities in an Illiberal World.' ; 2. Michael Goodhart (University of Pittsburgh): 'The Future of Human Rights is Local: Human Rights Cities and Local Politics' ; 3. Anthony Tirado Chase, 'Truth and Accountability in Los Angeles: Global Norms Informing City Reckoning Around Racial Justice' ; 4. Gaea Morales (University of Southern California), 'Cities and International Relations' ; 5. Erin Bromaghim and Angela Kim (Los Angeles Mayor's Office): 'The Sustainable Development Goals and City Policy in Los Angeles' ; 6. Thalia Gonzĺez (Occidental College), 'Cities and Human Rights in the United States' -- Section 4: Sexuality, Sexual Rights, and Reproductive Rights. 1. Rajat Khosla /Kate Gilmore (Amnesty International), 'Sex, sexuality, and sexual and reproductive health: the role of human rights' ; 2. Momin Rahman (Trent University), 'The homocolonialist' test for global LGBTQ+ & SOGIE rights strategies ; 3. Mauro Cabral (GATE/Argentina) 'The reform of medical protocols and law reform in light of the changes to the ICD: Improving the health and rights of transgender populations' ; 4. Morgan Carpenter (Intersex Australia), 'Intersex Health and Human Rights') ; 5. Vera Paiva (Professor, University of Säo Paulo) ; 6. Pascale Allotey (Director of United Nations University Institute for Global Health, Malaysia) -- Section 5: Feminism and the Triple Bind. 1. William Simmons (University of Arizona), 'Paternal Ignorance in Human Rights Devalues Knowledge of Marginalized Populations' ; 2. Dolores Trevizo (Occidental College), 'What Can Intersectional Approaches Reveal About Violence'? ; 3. Lara Stemple (UCLA), 'Claiming Gender for 'women only' Runs Counter to Fundamental Notions of Equality' ; 4. Amr Shalakany (American University in Cairo), 'Thinking Feminism and Feminist Movements and the Arab Spring' ; 5. Kathy Spillar (Executive Director of Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. Magazine) ; 6. Gloria Steinem feminist social commentator and author -- Section 6: Concluding Roundtable -- Index.