Stones of hope [electronic resource] : how African activists reclaim human rights to challenge global poverty / edited by Lucie E. White and Jeremy Perelman ; with a foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa E. Sachs.

Contributor(s): White, Lucie, 1949- | Perelman, Jeremy | Sachs, Jeffrey | Sachs, Lisa E | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Stanford studies in human rightsPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011Description: xxvii, 249 pISBN: 9780804776431 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Human rights advocacy -- Africa -- Case studies | Social rights -- Africa | Human rights -- AfricaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.0973 LOC classification: JC599.A36 | S76 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
A place to live : resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Felix Morka -- Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Duncan Kennedy -- Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice : South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- The evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania : structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Freeing Mohammed Zakari : rights as footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- Stones of hope : experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- The long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A place to live : resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Felix Morka -- Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Duncan Kennedy -- Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice : South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- The evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania : structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Freeing Mohammed Zakari : rights as footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- Stones of hope : experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- The long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White.

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