The human rights paradox universality and its discontents critical human rights amazonde stern steve j straus scott fremdsprachige bucher. The human rights paradox universality and its discontents critical human rights oct 30 human rights but since humans can only realize their rights in particular places human rights are both always and never universal the human rights paradox is the first the human rights paradox is the first book to fully embrace this contradiction and reframe human rights as history contemporary social . The human rights paradox is the first book to fully embrace this contradiction and reframe human rights as history contemporary social advocacy and future prospect in case studies that span africa latin america south and southeast asia and the united states contributors carefully illuminate how social actors create the imperative of human rights through relationships whose entanglements of the global and the local are so profound that one cannot exist apart from the other . Critical perspectives on human rights partakes in this double move conceiving of rights as a form of critique against for example steve j stern and scott strauss the human rights paradox universality and its discontents 2014 which author birgit schippers publisher rowman littlefield isbn 9781786600165 category political science page 274 . Project muse the human rights paradox but since humans can only realize their rights in particular places human rights are both always and never universal the human rights paradox is the first book to fully embrace this contradiction and reframe human rights as history contemporary social advocacy and future prospect in case studies that span africa latin america south and southeast asia and