Substance, Scale, and Salience
The Recent Historiography of Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24223261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Moyn (0000-0001-5152-956X, Columbia University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-140 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Law and Social Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1550-3585 • E-ISSN: 1550-3631 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102811-173847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 43 |
This review evaluates the current state of the historiography of human rights, which originated as a field a mere decade ago. It proposes that the substantive contents of norms, doctrines, and law still attract most historians interested in human rights but are only part of a necessarily broader domain of inquiry. Promisingly, recent entries in the field focus on the extension of the geographical scale of application of human rights, as well as on the differing political and ideological salience that human rights ideas have achieved in diverse moments. The historiographical survey concludes with a discussion of why the history of human rights began to be written and whether it is a pressing task to continue building the field.
Christianity and Human Rights
Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations
The Continuing Perplexities of Human Rights
Empresas e direitos humanos
Theorizing the Normative Significance of Critical Histories for International Law
The Czar and the Slaves
Cul-de-sac to the West
Sociology in the Garden
Layers of Political Repression
The lawyers’ war
Studying Human Rights in the Middle East
Imagining a World without the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Lawyers' War
Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and State Violence
A New Deal for the World
Humanitarian Reason
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Natural Rights Theories
Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights
Back to the League of Nations
A Theory of Justice
Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Liberal Leviathan
Le mythe de la traite des blanches
The New Cultural History
No Enchanted Palace
The Human Rights Surges of the 1940s and 1990s
Toward a New Politics? On the Recent Historiography of Human Rights
Human Rights and Root Causes
The end of human rights
The First Historian of Human Rights
"A Looming Crash or a Soft Landing? Forecasting the Future of the Memory "Industry
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 in the History of Cosmopolitanism
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |