Human Rights on and at the Margins

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Human rights are never secure. If they were, we those in struggle would not need the concept or the norms and institutions that support and maintain their legitimacy. On this panel, human rights scholars explore the challenges of human rights in the context of the rising power of the anti-human rights right, as a potential resource for supporting environmental justice campaigns, and for the threats to social and civic death of those in prisons and sexworkers claiming their rights.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 45: Human Rights

Cosponsor

• DIVISION 52: Migration and Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• Human Rights Bureaucrats: Human Rights Advocates in Right-wing Populist Brazil - Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva, The University of Oklahoma

• Political Life: Punishment, Power, and Civic Capacities in Prison - David Jonathan Knight, University of Chicago

• “Sex Worker Rights are Human Rights”: Illustrating Solidaristic Normative Theory - Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Simon Fraser University

• The Rights Time? Predicting Environmental Justice Campaigns' Success - Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University

Chair

• Jan Luedert

Discussants

• Laura Roost Newberry College

• Jan Luedert