Review Essays

Topical Foci: Development & Human Rights

Challenging the Gendered Hegemony of Space: Acknowledging 'Difference' in Development Planning by Laura Hebert

Gender, Planning and Human Rights, Edited by Tovi Fenster. International Studies of Women and Place Series. New York: Routledge, 1999. 240pp.

The Indivisibility of Economic and Political Rights by Linda M. Keller

Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen. New York: Knopf, 1999 (Paperback Edition: Random House, 2000). 366pp.

Defending the Universality and Timelessness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A View from the 'Developing World' by Shaista Shameem

Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 144pp.

Building a Better World by Pierre Landell-Mills

The Global New Deal: Economic and Social Rights in World Politics by William Felice. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 204pp.

Legitimacy, Justice, and the Future of Africa by J. Peter Pham

Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Philip J. McConnaughay. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 308 pp.

Protecting Indigenous Peoples By Paul J. Magnarella

The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity by Ronald Niezen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 272pp.

Indigenous Peoples and the State: The Struggle for Native Rights by Bradley Reed Howard. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. 252pp.

The Profit Motive: Can Corporate Networks be an Effective Conduit for Improving Worker Rights? By Alisa DiCaprio

Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? By Kimberly Elliott and Richard Freeman. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 2003. 179pp.

Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Approaches to Global Labor Challenges. Edited by Laura Hartman, Denis Arnold and Richard Wokutch. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2003. 414pp.

Transnational Corporations and Human Rights. Edited by Jedrzej Frynas and Scott Pegg. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 223pp.

Exploring Universal Rights: A Symposium Contributors: Jamie Mayerfeld, Brooke Ackerly, Henry Shue, Jack Donnelly, Kok-Chor Tan, and Charles Beitz

Which Rights Should Be Universal? by William J. Talbott . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. 232pp.

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