International law from below development, social movements, and Third World resistance

Balakrishnan Rajagopal's fundamental critique of modern international law draws attention to traditional Third World engagements. Rajagopal challenges current approaches to international law and politics either through states or through individuals. With transnational and local social movement...

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Autor principal: Rajagopal, Balakrishnan (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2003.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39686243*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. International Law, Development and Third World Resistance: 1. Writing third world resistance into international law
  • 2. International law and the development encounter
  • Part II. International Law, Third World Resistance and the institutionalization of development: the invention of the apparatus: 3. Laying the groundwork: the mandate system 4 Radicalizing institutions and/or institutionalizing radicalism? UNCTAD and the NIEO debate
  • 5. From resistance to renewal: Bretton Woods institutions and the emergence of the 'new' development agenda
  • 6. Completing a full circle: democracy and the discontent of development Part III. Decolonizing resistance: Human Rights and the Challenge of Social Movements: 7. Human rights and the third world: constituting the discourse of resistance
  • 8. Recoding resistance: social movements and the challenge to international law 9. Markets, gender and identity: a case study of the Working Women's Forum as a social movement.