Human Rights as Battlefields: Changing Practices and Contestations

1. Introduction: Becoming Human Rights Subjects Through New Practices
Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot

Part I - The Changing Nature of Human Rights and Their Political Boundaries: New Definitions, Longstanding Debates
2. Human Rights As Battlefields: Power Relations, Translations and Transformations - A Theoretical Framework Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot

3. The Gender of Human Rights: The French Debate Over "les Droits de l'Homme" Charles Bosvieux-Onyekwelu

4. The Right to Water: The Political Function of Human Rights as an Expression of the Contradictions in Globalization Sylvie Paquerot

5. Politics of Neutrality, Human Rights and Armed Struggles: The Turkey Example Ozan Kamiloglu

Part II - Overcoming the Frontiers of Discrimination and Structural Violence: Intersectional Struggles of Human Rights From Below and Transformations of Political Space
6. Child Prisoners, Human Rights and Human Rights Activism: Beyond 'Emergency' and 'Exceptionality' - An Australian Case Study Judith Bessant and Rob Watts

7. Who is a Child? The Politics of Human Rights, the Convention on the Right of the Child (CRC), and Child Marriage in Nigeria Olabanji Akinola

8. Forcibly Sterilized: Peru's Indigenous Women and the Battle for Rights Ñusta Carranza Ko

9. Politicization of Rights-based Development and Marginalization of Human Rights from Below: The Case of Maternal Health Rights in India Surma Das

Part III: Social Contestation and the Broadening of Human Rights' Meanings
10. Indigenous Peoples in Chile: Contesting Violence, Building New Meanings for Rights and Democracy Marie-Christine Doran

11. Improving HIV/AIDS Drugs Access: A Genealogy of the Human Right to Health From Below Gabriel Blouin-Genest and Mikey Erb

12. Internet Access as Human Right: A Dystopian Critique from the Occupied Palestinian Territory Fabio Cristiano

13. Conclusion: Changing Human Right Practices and the Battlefields of World Politics Gabriel Blouin-Genest, Marie-Christine Doran, and Sylvie Paquerot