{"title":"Claiming Human Rights: Iranian Political Prisoners and the Making of a Transnational Movement, 1963–1979","authors":"Golnar Nikpour","doi":"10.1353/HUM.2018.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HUM.2018.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the transnational movement against prisoner abuse and torture in Pahlavi Iran in the 1960s-1970s. Arguing that the notion of human rights in this era was neither fixed nor stable, it analyzes the encounter between Iranian revolutionaries, students, and intellectuals and international human rights activists and organizations. It argues that the growing prominence of prisoner abuse in Iran provided a rallying point for Iranian dissidents of various political stripes in the years before the 1979 revolution as well as a testing ground for the emergent global human rights movement at a time when this movement had not yet cohered into the industry it is today.","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"9 1","pages":"363 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HUM.2018.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44849527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Asylum and its Discontents: Reflections on Michal Heiman","authors":"Orna Ben-Naftali","doi":"10.1353/HUM.2018.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HUM.2018.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Michal Heiman's project, Return: asylum (the Dress, 1855-2018), consists of photographs of women and men clothed in a dress similar to one worn by women inmates at the former Surrey County Lunatic Asylum in the 1850s. Traversing time, space, gender, race and institutional practices of asylum, the artist takes the viewers on a ride in a time machine that is not a technological devise but a discourse on memory and on owning the future: s/he who wears the dress has the potential to return as witness, reader, artist, prosecutor, gate-keeper or rebel, thereby transforming her exceptional story into ours. Return: Asylum is an act of resistance: it engages human imagination in re-presenting the regenerative power of human solidarity as an alternative to current political practices that sacrifice the right of asylum—the only right that since the dawn of political life, as noted by Arendt, \"has ever figured as a symbol of the Rights of Man\"—at the altar of a security theology.","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"9 1","pages":"469 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41688910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/hum.2019.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2019.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hum.2019.0020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66355078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promise-Making and the History of Human Rights: Reading Arendt with Danto","authors":"E. Mackinnon","doi":"10.1353/HUM.2018.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HUM.2018.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Implicit in recent debates among historians of human rights is the question of whether and how early rights promises, particularly eighteenth-century rights declarations, enabled later rights claims. Can promises, initially unrealized, create the conditions for their own fulfillment? Reading Hannah Arendt with Arthur Danto, this article offers an account of human rights politics as a practice of repeated promise-making – one characterized not by reliance on the past as a stable foundation, but by uncertainty about, and contestation of, history. Using archival sources, it also reconstructs Arendt's and Danto's involvement in human rights politics, including Danto's early role in Amnesty International USA.","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"9 1","pages":"193 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HUM.2018.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47583218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Art of Chameleon Politics: From Colonial Servant to International Development Expert","authors":"Eva-Maria Muschik","doi":"10.1353/HUM.2018.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HUM.2018.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article explores the continuities between imperial and international development efforts by examining the post-1945 career trajectory of a British colonial forester turned United Nations development expert. While previous scholarship has stressed the close links between late colonial and postcolonial development work, this microhistory offers a different perspective: it suggests that the experience of decolonization rather than colonial service proved crucially formative for a career in international development. The article suggests that decolonization should be understood not as a clear-cut break or a neocolonial transformation, but instead as an open-ended process to which malleable individuals adapted their thinking and practices.","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"9 1","pages":"219 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HUM.2018.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46985659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Politics of Neutrality: Cimade, Humanitarianism, and State Power in Modern France","authors":"Darcie Fontaine","doi":"10.1353/HUM.2018.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HUM.2018.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Using the contemporary and historical conflicts between Cimade and the French government over the definition of legitimate humanitarian practice, this article seeks to interrogate the relationship between the ideologies and practices of \"neutrality\" and \"témoignage\" as guiding principles of contemporary humanitarianism in France and the political terrain in which humanitarian organizations like Cimade negotiate their work. In examining Cimade's role in the French Resistance during World War II, and its engagement in the Algerian War of Independence, this article analyzes how Cimade's history and historical narratives shape the organization's relationship with the French state and its vision of political engagement.","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"9 1","pages":"245 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HUM.2018.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42897103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catholic Social Doctrine and Human Rights: From Rejection to Endorsement?","authors":"Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti","doi":"10.1353/HUM.2018.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HUM.2018.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines the evolution of Catholic social doctrine on the topic of human rights. Its purpose is to explain how official Catholic doctrine moved from an initial rejection of such rights throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, to an ostensible endorsement of them in the second half of the 20th century. The argument advanced is that the Church effectively co-opted human rights by transforming the meaning that was historically assigned to them. Whereas such rights were originally construed as expressions of an 'individualist' and 'contractualist' social philosophy ultimately founded on the idea of human autonomy, over the course of the past half-century the Church has progressively re-styled them as correlates of a 'neo-thomistic' idea of natural law. In this way it has been able to endorse human rights without relinquishing any of the foundational principles of its critique of modernity.","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"9 1","pages":"271 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HUM.2018.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41823033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prevention","authors":"Tatiana Carayannis, Sabrina Stein","doi":"10.4324/9780203486863-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203486863-19","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the relevance of the master's program in prevention and accompaniment in addictive behaviors. A survey was applied to graduates of the social areas of the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí. The study reveals the importance of having professionals trained in prevention and accompaniment in addictive behaviors and the intention of the graduates to be part of the postgraduate program.","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89191503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accountability","authors":"B. Roberts","doi":"10.4324/9780203486863-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203486863-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77929081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Camps","authors":"S. Cooper-Knock, Katy Long","doi":"10.4324/9780203486863-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203486863-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44775,"journal":{"name":"Humanity-An International Journal of Human Rights Humanitarianism and Development","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88168114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}