Human Rights, Movements and Law

On Not Researching Legitimacy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2322339
AutoresK Nash (0000-0001-6445-9628, Goldsmiths University of London, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume46
Fascículo5
Páginas797-812
Data de publicação2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038512451528
OpenAlexW2027502373
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas35

This article explores the relationship between social movements, human rights and law at different scales. I compare 'global constitutionalism' and 'subaltern cosmopolitanism' as approaches to movements, rights and law. As sociologists, we are especially well placed to address certain assumptions on which these inter-disciplinary approaches rely. I argue that assumptions about the relationship between social movements and human rights that are fundamentally normative limit our understanding of the diversity of organisational forms through which human rights are being defined, and of the complexity of multi-scalar law through which claims to justice are being made. In particular, the importance of the state and national law for institutionalising human rights norms should not be neglected by privileging either local or international law as the legitimate focus of democratic claims for justice

Cosmopolitanism · Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law