Stones of hope : how African activists reclaim human rights to ch allenge global poverty / edited by Lucie E. White and Jeremy Perelma n ; with a foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa E. Sachs. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011. - xxvii, 249 p. ; 24 cm. - Stanford studies in human rights .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A place to live : resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Feli x Morka -- Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global so uth / Duncan Kennedy -- Cultural transformation, deep institutional ref orm, and ESR practice : South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / Will iam Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and M ark Heywood -- The evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania : structural constrai nts and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Ruth Buchanan , Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Freeing Mohammed Zakari : ri ghts as footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the part icipation of Mahama Ayariga -- Stones of hope : experience and theory i n African economic and social rights activism / Jeremy Perelman and Luc ie E. White -- The long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights adv ocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White.

9780804769198 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804769204 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010-030289


Human rights advocacy--Africa-- Case studies.
Social rights
Human rights--Africa.

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