How to Build a Culture of Human Rights in the Era of Populism
Reflections From the Human Rights City of York (UK)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6451723 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Gready (0000-0001-6353-7372, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 602-622 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09646639241287753 |
| OpenAlex | W4403203089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article analyses how to build a culture of human rights in the era of populism. The UK, and the York Human Rights City initiative, provide a case study. The article draws on a human rights practice methodology, activist practices and broader social processes and practices, both in York, to analyse the potential of the ‘local’, and in particular cities, to develop a human rights culture. It argues that such a culture needs to go beyond current responses to populism, notably a focus on values and framing (a variant of ‘if only people knew’), to draw on thicker components of culture (history and place, rather than law and institutions). Interviews with artists in York as a proxy for wider public engagement suggest an enduring disconnect with human rights but also that meaning-making, co-creation, not just better communication, is needed to build a culture of human rights
Environmental ethics · Human rights · Law and economics · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy
Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
Creating Worlds Otherwise
Human Rights as Social Construction
Reinventing Human Rights
Global Urban Justice
Speaking Rights to Populism? Using Emotion as the Language of Values
Introduction--Rights Choices
The Populist Challenge to Human Rights
Legal Consciousness Reconsidered
Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom
Frontier Cities
A typology of local governments’ engagement with human rights
An Actor-oriented Approach to Rights in Development
Rethinking Human Rights in York as a Human Rights City
Rebel cities
Vernacular rights cultures and the 'Right to Have Rights
Human Rights Culture
Truth, Reconciliation, and the Creation of a Human Rights Culture in South Africa
Vernacular rights cultures
Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |