Course Readings

Week One: Conceptual and Definitional Issues

TUESDAY, JULY 5th

Basic Concepts of Human Rights and Development by Stephen P. Marks

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6th

Human Rights and the International System by Hurst Hannum

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The International Bill of Human Rights includes:

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THURSDAY, JULY 7th

Development Theories, Old and New and their Implications for Human Rights by Balakrishnan Rajagopal

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Please retrieve from JGU library:

  • Sen, A. Development as Freedom (1999), Chapters 1 and 2.
  • Easterly, W., The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (2014), Chapter 1.
  • UN and CESR. 2013. “Who will be accountable? Human rights and the post-2015 development agenda.”

FRIDAY, JULY 8th

Human Rights from Below: The Importance of Social Mobilization by Balakrishnan Rajagopal

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Please retrieve from JGU library:

  • Rajagopal, B. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements, and Third World Resistance, Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapters 7 and 8.
  • “Limits of law in counter-hegemonic globalization: The Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada valley struggle” in Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality (Boaventura de Sousa Santos and César A. Rodríguez-Garavito eds, Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Week Two: Social and Economic Issues

MONDAY, JULY 11th

Urbanization and Human Rights: Case Discussion of Kumnh Mela by Richard Cash

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Transitioning from Relief to Development in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies by Jennifer Leaning

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TUESDAY, JULY 12th

Education in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights by Fernando M. Reimers

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13th

The Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis from the Perspective of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation by Sharmila Murthy

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Making Human Rights Work for People Living in Extreme Poverty by Cristina Diez Sagüillo

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THURSDAY, JULY 14th

Right of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of Development by Michael Stein

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  • Readings to be distributed during class. Not for redistribution

Ebola and the Right to Health: An Acute-on-Chronic Crisis by Cameron T. Nutt

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  • Paul Farmer, Diary, London Review of Books, Vol. 36 No. 20 · 23 October 2014

FRIDAY, JULY 15th

Rights of the Child by Theresa S. Betancourt

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Week Three: Global Political Economy

MONDAY, JULY 18th

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TUESDAY, JULY 19th

Gender in Development by Jeni Klugman

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20th

Business and Human Rights by Malcolm Rogge

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THURSDAY, JULY 21st

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FRIDAY, JULY 22nd

Right to Development by Stephen P. Marks

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