Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision

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This book analyzes the complex relationship between human rights and liberalism as two different worldviews, and how American liberalism impedes the recognition of human rights. In order to achieve democratic, equitable, and sustainable societies, people need to be accorded fundamental human rights and to grant these rights to others.

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Human Rights is both a welcome contribution in its own right and an intellectually engaging stimulus to further work on its urgent themes. Human rights and global justice are among the fundamental issues of our day and a sociological perspective such as this one is sorely needed. -- Craig Calhoun, Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, USA
Through a unique world-scale analysis, Blau and Moncada expose the hidden or unquestioned relationships between the global political-economy of neo-liberalism and 'structural reform' and the differential realities of human well being. This is a work of activist sociology in the best sense! -- Richard E. Lee, SUNY-Binghamton
Drawing on such classics as Adam Smith, Max Weber, Karl Polanyi, and Hannah Arendt, Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada offer a crushing indictment of the U.S. human rights record, made all the more shocking by cover-ups and justifications in the name of individual freedoms. The perfect primer for anyone interested in movements for global justice. -- Michael Burawoy, president, American Sociological Association

Author Bio

Judith Blau is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and president of the U.S. chapter of Sociologists without Borders. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Shape of Culture, Race in the Schools, and The Blackwell Companion to Sociology, and is currently the editor of Social Forces.

Alberto Moncada is professor of sociology at the University of Madrid and president of Sociologists without Borders. He is founder of the University of Piura, Peru and its first Prorector and has served as consultant to UNESCO and the Council of Europe. Moncada is the author of over 30 books on migration, sociology of education, sociology of religion, and the media.