Sociology

Neil Stammers gives us a lively, provocative and insightful discussion ...

(Professor Richard A. Wilson, Director, H)

Neil Stammers gives us a lively, provocative and insightful discussion of human rights and social movements that goes to the heart of what human rights are, what they are not, and what we might aspire for them to be.

(Professor Richard A. Wilson, Director, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut)

Set against the narratives of the current crises of theory ...

(Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law,)

Set against the narratives of the current crises of theory and praxes of human rights, Neil Stammers here explores the difficult relationship between human rights and social movement activist practices and thus inaugurally redresses a lamentable and long-felt lack in the literature of comparative social theory and history of human rights ... weariness and wariness.

(Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick.)