Since the end of the Cold War, there has
been a dramatic expansion in both the international human rights system and the
transnational networks of activists, development organizations, and monitoring
agencies that partially reinforce it. Yet despite or perhaps because of this
explosive growth, the multiple statuses of human rights remain as unsettled as
ever. Human Rights at the Crossroads brings together preeminent and emerging
voices within human rights studies to think creatively about problems beyond
their own disciplines, and to critically respond to what appear to be
intractable problems within human rights theory and practice. It includes essays
that rethink the ideas surrounding human rights and dignity, human rights and
state interests in citizenship and torture, the practice of human rights in
politics, genocide, and historical re-writing, and the anthropological and
medical approaches to human rights. Human Rights at the Crossroads provides an
integrative and interdisciplinary answer to the existing academic status quo,
with broad implications for future theory and practice in all fields dealing
with the problems of human rights theory and practice
