Human Rights Bookshelf

The Human Rights Program highlights publications from faculty across several colleges and degree programs. Adding their voices to the ongoing debates and theories of human rights, our faculty are among the world’s leaders in writing on issues including transitional justice, representations and memory of mass violence, history of human rights, gender and war, and the defense of rights and rule of law.

 

Book title: Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era
Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era: The Ethics of Never Again

Authors: Alejandro Baer and Natan Sznaider
Examination of the effects of a globalized Holocaust culture and how memory activists maneuver between duties of remembrance and the benefits of forgetting.

Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain: Exhuming the Past, Understanding the Present
Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain: Exhuming the Past, Understanding the Present

Authors: Ofelia Ferrán and Lisa Hilbink
Study of Francoist violence in contemporary Spain, focusing on exhumations of mass graves from the Civil War and post-war era.

Revealing New Truths about Spain’s Violent Past: Perpetrators Confessions and Victim Exhumations
Revealing New Truths about Spain’s Violent Past

Authors: Leigh Payne and Paloma Aguilar
Analysis of Spain's transformation from consensual guilt and oblivion in dealing with its past to that of openness via victim testimony and perpetrators’ confessions.

 
Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur
Representing Mass Violence

Author: Joachim Savelsberg
Analysis reflecting the dramatic differences in the framing of mass violence as represented to the public via media.

The Development of International Human Rights Law: Volume I
The Development of International Human Rights Law

Author: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Editor: David Weissbrodt
Essays by experts on human rights, encompassing the development of human rights law and many of its current controversies.

The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights
The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights

Author: Christopher Roberts
Exploration of human rights, including the deep disagreement over their true source of origin, how to study them and how best to address their deficits.

Los umbrales del testimonio: Entre las narraciones de los sobrevivientes y las señas de la posdictadura
Los umbrales del testimonio: Entre las narraciones de los sobrevivientes y las señas de la posdictadura

Author: Ana Forcinito
Rereading testimonial narratives of former political prisoners in Argentina and the central roles they played in the struggles against impunity.

Kathryn Sinkkink's Justice Cascade
The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

Author: Kathryn Sikkink
Reveals the emergence of human rights prosecutions and their effect on democracy, conflict, and repression.

On the Frontlines: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process
On the Frontlines

Authors: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Naomi Cahn
Consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states, offering practical solutions to ensure gender centrality in peacemaking and peace enforcement.

Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities
Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities

Author: Joachim Savelsberg
A linking of human rights scholarship with criminological theory to explore explanations of and responses to crimes against humanity.

Second-Wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race, and Health Sector Reform in Peru
Second-Wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race, and Health Sector Reform in Peru

Author: Christina Ewig
A case study of the multifaceted efforts to reform the health sector in Peru under the Fujimori regime.

Oath Betrayed: America’s Torture Doctors, 2nd ed.
Oath Betrayed: America’s Torture Doctors, 2nd ed.

Author: Steven Miles
Telling of how doctors, psychologists, and medics cleared the way for the United States to torture prisoners in the war on terror.

Love Marriage
Love Marriage

Author: V.V. Ganeshananthan
A story of the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, chronicles how Sri Lankan politics continues to affect daily life.

Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile
Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile

Author: Lisa Hilbink
Longitudinal case study of Chilean judicial behavior before, during, and after the rule of Augusto Pinochet.

Sons of the Sierra: Juarez, Diaz, and the People of Ixtlan, Oaxaca, 1855–1920
Sons of the Sierra: Juarez, Diaz, and the People of Ixtlan, Oaxaca, 1855–1920

Author: Patrick McNamara
Historical exploration of events in Ixtlan, where Zapotec Indians supported the liberal cause and sought to exercise influence over statewide and national politics.