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Title Stones of hope [electronic resource] : how African activists reclaim human rights to challenge global poverty / edited by Lucie E. White and Jeremy Perelman ; with a foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa E. Sachs.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.

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Description xxvii, 249 p.
Series Stanford studies in human rights
Stanford studies in human rights.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A place to live : resisting evictions in Ijora-Badia, Nigeria / Felix Morka -- Commentary on anti-eviction and development in the global south / Duncan Kennedy -- Cultural transformation, deep institutional reform, and ESR practice : South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign / William Forbath, with assistance from Zackie Achmat, Geoff Budlender, and Mark Heywood -- The evictions at Nyamuma, Tanzania : structural constraints and alternative pathways in the struggles over land / Ruth Buchanan, Helen Kijo-Bisimba, and Kerry Rittich -- Freeing Mohammed Zakari : rights as footprints / Jeremy Perelman and Katharine Young, with the participation of Mahama Ayariga -- Stones of hope : experience and theory in African economic and social rights activism / Jeremy Perelman and Lucie E. White -- The long arc of pragmatic economic and social rights advocacy / Peter Houtzager and Lucie E. White.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Human rights advocacy -- Africa -- Case studies.
Social rights -- Africa.
Human rights -- Africa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author White, Lucie, 1949-
Perelman, Jeremy.
Sachs, Jeffrey.
Sachs, Lisa E.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780804769198 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804769204 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804776431 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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