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Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
This session explores emerging research trends at the intersection of the sociology of human rights and comparative historical sociology. The sociology of human rights, in close dialogue with political science and anthropology, has made important contributions to the study of international human rights law, its advancement by transnational social movement, its impact upon national public policies, and its local adaptation across cultural contexts. Comparative historical sociology, taking up recent debates in global history, has given increased attention to empires, colonialism, and other modes of global entanglement underpinning international law. Time seems ripe for closer interaction between these two subfields, especially in light of revisionist historiographies of human rights. To advance this interaction, this session discusses theoretical frameworks, analytical tools and empirical data required to study long-term sociohistorical processes through which human rights – as values, institutions, and practices – have emerged and changed. Such a long-term perspective is highly pertinent in times where human rights have come under increasing attack worldwide.
The Making of a Movement: An Inter-Generational Mobilization Model of the Non-Violent Nashville Civil Rights Movement - Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University; Jonathan Scott Coley, Oklahoma State University; Larry W. Isaac, Vanderbilt University; Dennis C. Dickerson, Vanderbilt University
Mapping the New World's Racial Order: Human Rights and the (Re)Making of Racial Regimes, 1976-1996 - Angela Elena Fillingim, Western Washington University
The Moral Imperative of Reburying the Missing, Objective Science, and Reframing Spain’s Violent Past - Nicole Iturriaga, Max Planck Institute
Justifying torture in the public sphere: Hypothetical scenarios, real consequences - Lisa Stampnitzky, University of Sheffield