Human Rights in China A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism 1st Edition by Eva Pils ISBN 1509500731 9781509500734

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ISBN 10: 1509500731

ISBN 13: 978-1509500734

Author:  Eva Pils 

Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism 1st Edition: How can we make sense of human rights in China’s authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of resources including years of interaction with Chinese human rights defenders, Pils discusses what gives rise to systematic human rights violations, what institutional avenues of protection are available, and how social practices of human rights defence have evolved. 

Three central areas are addressed: liberty and integrity of the person; freedom of thought and expression; and inequality and socio-economic rights. Pils argues that the Party-State system is inherently opposed to human rights principles in all these areas, and that – contributing to a global trend – it is becoming more repressive. Yet, despite authoritarianism’s lengthening shadows, China’s human rights movement has so far proved resourceful and resilient. The trajectories discussed here will continue to shape the struggle for human rights in China and beyond its borders.

 

Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Human rights and competing conceptions of justice, law and power
   The Yuan tradition of righting wrongs
   The rights tradition
   Official counterdiscourses
   Conclusion
   Notes

2. Institutional avenues of human rights advocacy
   The place of human rights in the normative framework
   Institutional avenues: the judiciary
   Institutional avenues: ‘letters and visits’ and the media
   Advocacy as resistance
   Conclusion
   Notes

3. Liberty and life
   Restrictions of personal liberty
   Torture
   The right to life and the death penalty
   Conclusion
   Notes

4. Expression and thought
   The limits of the right of free expression
   Censorship and crimes of expression
   ‘Smart’ technologies of expression vs ‘smart’ control technologies
   ‘Public opinion guidance’, ‘thought work’ and ‘social credit’ governance
   Conclusion
   Notes

5. Inequality and socio-economic rights
   The impact of urbanization on land and housing rights
   Education rights of rural and migrant worker children
   The human rights effects of environmental degradation
   Conclusion
   Notes

6. Rights defenders
   The emergence of civil society advocates
   The consequences of authoritarian revival
   Conclusion
   Notes

 

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