Sovereign Emergencies(English, Hardcover, Kelly Patrick William)

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Sovereign Emergencies(English, Hardcover, Kelly Patrick William) is written by Kelly Patrick William and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107163242 (ISBN 10) and 9781107163249 (ISBN 13).

The concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes, for it was both the target of human rights advocacy and the site of a series of significant developments for regional and global human rights politics. Drawing on case studies of Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, Kelly examines the crystallization of new understandings of sovereignty and social activism based on individual human rights. Activists and politicians articulated a new practice of human rights that blurred the borders of the nation-state to endow an individual with a set of rights protected by international law. Yet the rights revolution came at a cost: the Marxist critique of US imperialism and global capitalism was slowly supplanted by the minimalist plea not to be tortured.