Neil Stammers
Biographic Data
| ID | 695750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Stammers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Stammers |
| SIGNATURE | STAMMERS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Human rights and the food sovereignty movement
Human rights and the food sovereignty movement: reclaiming control." Social Movement Studies, 16(2), pp. 266–267
Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development
Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on …
Human Rights and Social Movements
Human Rights and Social Movements
Annotation
Taking Part
Can social movements make a difference in global politics? That question is, ultimately, one that only the historical practice of transnational social movements will answer. But is that answer likely to be heard or understood by analysts, even if it were to ring in the air around them? We think not, unless there is a fundamental shift in the way the transformative agency of social movements is conceptualized. In this article we try to substantiat…
Social Movements and the Social Construction of Human Rights
Human Rights Quarterly - Volume 21, Number 4, November 1999
Teaching and Learning Politics
The paper presents the results of a survey of practices and change in respect of teaching and learning politics in UK universities for the period 1991/92–1994/95. It begins by contextualizing the survey; summarizing changes that occurred in higher education in the UK in the early 1990s and reviewing key strands in contemporary British literature on teaching and learning in higher education. Following a methods section, the findings of the survey …
Human Rights and Power
This paper is an initial attempt to link the concepts of human rights and power from a social constructionist perspective. It looks at aspects of the social history of natural and human rights and the relationship of this history to extant power relations. It suggests that conceptions of human rights have both challenged and sustained particular forms of power, thus playing a highly ambivalent role. The paper also examines and criticises the phil…
Civil Liberties in Britain during the 2nd World War
Taking Part
Can social movements make a difference in global politics? That question is, ultimately, one that only the historical practice of transnational social movements will answer. But is that answer likely to be heard or understood by analysts, even if it were to ring in the air around them? We think not, unless there is a fundamental shift in the way the transformative agency of social movements is conceptualized. In this article we try to substantiat…
Human Rights and Power
This paper is an initial attempt to link the concepts of human rights and power from a social constructionist perspective. It looks at aspects of the social history of natural and human rights and the relationship of this history to extant power relations. It suggests that conceptions of human rights have both challenged and sustained particular forms of power, thus playing a highly ambivalent role. The paper also examines and criticises the phil…
Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development
Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on …
Teaching and Learning Politics
The paper presents the results of a survey of practices and change in respect of teaching and learning politics in UK universities for the period 1991/92–1994/95. It begins by contextualizing the survey; summarizing changes that occurred in higher education in the UK in the early 1990s and reviewing key strands in contemporary British literature on teaching and learning in higher education. Following a methods section, the findings of the survey …
Civil Liberties in Britain during the 2nd World War
Human Rights and Power
This paper is an initial attempt to link the concepts of human rights and power from a social constructionist perspective. It looks at aspects of the social history of natural and human rights and the relationship of this history to extant power relations. It suggests that conceptions of human rights have both challenged and sustained particular forms of power, thus playing a highly ambivalent role. The paper also examines and criticises the phil…
Social Movements and the Social Construction of Human Rights
Human Rights Quarterly - Volume 21, Number 4, November 1999
Teaching and Learning Politics
The paper presents the results of a survey of practices and change in respect of teaching and learning politics in UK universities for the period 1991/92–1994/95. It begins by contextualizing the survey; summarizing changes that occurred in higher education in the UK in the early 1990s and reviewing key strands in contemporary British literature on teaching and learning in higher education. Following a methods section, the findings of the survey …
Taking Part
Can social movements make a difference in global politics? That question is, ultimately, one that only the historical practice of transnational social movements will answer. But is that answer likely to be heard or understood by analysts, even if it were to ring in the air around them? We think not, unless there is a fundamental shift in the way the transformative agency of social movements is conceptualized. In this article we try to substantiat…
Human Rights and Social Movements
Human Rights and Social Movements
Annotation
Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development
Building on recent human rights scholarship, childhood studies and child rights programming, this conceptual framework on children's rights proposes three key-notions: living rights, or the lived experiences in which rights take shape; social justice, or the shared normative beliefs that make rights appear legitimate for those who struggle to get them recognised; and translations, or the complex flux between different beliefs and perspectives on …
Human rights and the food sovereignty movement
Human rights and the food sovereignty movement: reclaiming control." Social Movement Studies, 16(2), pp. 266–267
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Human rights (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Social movement (4 works) · Ambivalence (2 works)