Sovereign Emergencies Kelly Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781316615119

Name: Sovereign Emergencies Kelly Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781316615119
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Cambridge University Press

Sovereign EmergenciesLatin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics\nAuthor(s): Patrick William Kelly\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316615119, 978-1316615119\nSynopsis\nThe concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes, for it was both the target of human rights advocacy and the site of a series of significant developments for regional and global human rights politics. Drawing on case studies of Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, Kelly examines the crystallization of new understandings of sovereignty and social activism based on individual human rights. Activists and politicians articulated a new practice of human rights that blurred the borders of the nation-state to endow an indi.