Human Rights and Development

The emergence of human rights within development and the evolving relationship was increasingly brought to bear upon key debates and policies over the last couple of decades. This book provides a critically informed, comprehensive and multi-disciplinary entry-level account of this engagement between human rights and development.

• The only up-to-date textbook that provides a systematic, critical overview of the human rights-development nexus.
• The book will provide students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of human rights as a development challenge, delineate the responses and alternative critical approaches from a theoretical and practical perspective
• Equips readers with the conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for independent investigation of key issues at the human rights/development interface.
• Wide-ranging in scope, multi-scalar in looking at global policy initiatives or vulnerable groups such as indigenous peoples
• Well developed pedagogy including: a student briefing in the introduction, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter, text boxes to highlight particular issues, theoretical approaches, examples, cases and annotated further reading.

Weight: 542g
Dimension: 155 x 236 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138290181