Law From Below: Women's Human Rights and Social Movements in New York City

摘要: Despite the ambivalent history of domestic application human rights in United States, increasingly offer important resources for American grassroots activists. Within constraints U.S. policy toward rights, they provide social movements a kind global law ‘‘from below’’: form cosmopolitan that subalterns can use to challenge their subordinate position. Using case study from New York City, we argue certain contexts, political movements. However, do so diffuse way far formal system law. Instead, activists adopt some broader justice ideas and strategies embedded within practice. Human promise below,’’ terms Santos Rodriguez-Garavito (2005) have developed work on globalization below. Yet it is widely recognized mobilizing legal requires extensive expertise as well networks reach into transnational (see Kennedy 2002; Merry 2006; Riles 2001). discourse set practices asserting claims, surprisingly open relatively powerless groups. two organizations City used framework promote women’s show