NDLI: Towards a Study of Human Rights Practitioners

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Redhead, Robin Turnbull, Nick
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	The expansion of human rights provisions has produced an increasing number of human rights practitioners and delineated human rights as a field of its own. Questions of who is practicing human rights and how they practice it have become important. This paper considers the question of human rights practice and the agency of practitioners, arguing that practice should not be conceived as the application of philosophy, but instead approached from a sociological point of view. Whatever the structuring effect of political institutions, human rights is being defined more expansively by practitioners. The weakness of international institutions and the interpretive scope of human rights discourse produce significant opportunity for practitioners to interpret the meaning of human rights. Our exploratory interviews of a small sample of practitioners reveal widely varying histories, in which they interpret their own work as “human rights” practice in differing ways. Practitioners who in the past thought of themselves differently, now identify as human rights activists. They are also becoming more professional, but concerned about professionalization. Their self-interpretations reflect these concerns and also respond to the necessities of career events. Through the conscious and unconscious aspects of their practice, practitioners exercise considerable agency in adapting human rights discourse to their own concerns while also being critical of it.
Starting Page	173
Ending Page	189
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15248879
Journal	Human Rights Review
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18746306
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-11-24
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Human rights Practitioners Practice Sociology Political Philosophy Philosophy of Law Political Science Ethics Law Theory/Law Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Law

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