Human Rights and Global Justice Conference
HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE CONFERENCE
29 – 31 March 2006,
Scarman House, University of Warwick, UK
This interdisciplinary conference brought together key scholars, practitioners and activists from around the world to explore the interrelationship between globalisation, human rights and social justice. The Conference addressed the impact of the emergent discourse of new global social policy on the future of human rights and the need for human rights law and jurisprudence to be informed by contrasting perspectives of globalising agencies and resistance movements. A detailed thematic outline can be found here.
Programme with Abstracts, Papers and Presentations |
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Chair: Upendra Baxi, Professor of Law, University of Warwick Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Keynote Speaker), Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra and Legal Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School |
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Plenary 1: Nature of Human Rights |
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| Chair: Andrew Williams |
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| Upendra Baxi: Amartya Sen and Human Rights | Paper |
| Peter Fitzpatrick: Is Humanity Enough? The Secular Theology of Human Rights |  Paper |
| Robert Fine: Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights | Paper |
Plenary 2: Globalisation and the Market in Human Rights |
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Chair: Julio Faundez |
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| Jane Kelsey: Development, Coherence of Global Economic Policy Making and Privatisation of Services | Paper |
| Sol Picciotto: The WTO as a Node of Global Governance: Economic Regulation and Human Rights Discourses | Paper  Presentation |
| Shirin Rai: Feminising Global Governance | Paper |
| Peter Muchlinski: Discussant | |
Parallel Session 1 |
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Stream 1: |
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Chair: Ralf Rogowski |
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| Alan Norrie: Crime and the Failure of Law: Arendt, Jaspers and the Ontology of Guilt | Abstract
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| Istvan Pogany: Poets, Revolutionaries and Shoemakers: Law and the Construction of National Identity in Central Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century | Abstract
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| John Harrington:Law, Globalization and the NHS: Producing the Space of Medical Law | Paper |
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Chair: George Meszaros |
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| Sundhya Pahuja: Development and the Rule of Law | Abstract Paper |
| Dwijen Rangnekar: A Shrinking of the Public Domain in Agriculture: A Cartography of Contemporary Developments in Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Material | Abstract Paper Presentation |
| Abdul Paliwala: Free Culture, Global Commons and Social Justice in Information Technology Diffusion | Paper Presentation |
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Chair: Ann Stewart |
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| Samia Bano: Muslim Family Justice and Human Rights: The Experience of British Muslim Women | Abstract
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| Shraddha Chitageri: The Recognition-Redistribution Debate and Articulations of Injustice: Insights from Dalit Feminist Politics in India | Abstract Paper |
| Ayesha Shahid: Domestic Household Workers in Pakistan | Abstract
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Plenary 3: Identity, Economy and Social Justice |
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Chair: Abdul Paliwala |
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| Patrick McAuslan: High Theory, Low Practice: Where's the Social Justice? | Abstract Paper |
| William Twining: Human Rights, Southern Voices | Abstract
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| Andrew Williams: Human Rights and Law: Between Sufferance and Insufferability | Paper |
Plenary 4: Social Activism - Economics |
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Chair: Sammy Adelman |
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| Anthony Woodiwiss: What Might it Mean to Take Human Rights Seriously | Paper |
| Obiora Okafor: Assessing Baxi’s Thesis on the Emergence of the Emergence of a Trade-Related Market-Friendly Human Rights Paradigm: Recent Evidence from the Nigerian Labor Rights Context | Abstract Paper |
| Patrick Bond: Water Commodification in South Africa: Debating Rights, the Market and ‘Free Basic Water’ | Abstract Paper Presentation |
Plenary 5: Social Activism -Political |
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Chair: Jayan Nayar |
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| Koen De Feyter: Localizing Human Rights | Paper |
| Phil Shiner: Human Rights Action Through the Courts | |
| Balakrishnan Rajagopal: Rights Talk and Justice Talk: What is at Stake? | Paper |
Parallel Sessions 2 |
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Stream 1: Labour and Society |
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| Chair: TBC |
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| Franklyn Lisk: A Rights-based Approach to Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Workplace: The Role and Contribution of the ILO and its Constituents | Abstract Paper |
| Reena Patel: Women’s Work, Perceived Contribution and Access To Land In India | Abstract
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Stream 2: Gender Activism |
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| Chair: Fabienne Peter
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| Madhu Mehra: Women's Equality and Culture in the context of identity politics | Abstract Paper |
| Manjit Bhatia NGOs' Interventions As A Conduit Between Police and Judiciary To Deliver Justice to Women Victims of Violence in the State of Rajasthan, India. | Abstract |
Stream 3: Care, Justice and Family Systems |
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| Chair: Shreyas Jayasimha |
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| Garton Kamchedzera: New Global Development Assistance Modalities and the Rights of the Orphaned Child | Abstract Paper Presentation |
| Amy Shee & Bernard Kao: Impact of Globalisation on the Family Law of Taiwan | Paper Presentation |
Plenary 6: Recognition and Redistribution |
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| Chair: Reena Patel | |
| Terry Lovell: Reflections on the Recognition Redistribution Debate: Bourdieu dnd Fraser? | Paper |
| Ann Stewart: Who Can We Care About? Reflections on Gender and Trade Chains | Abstract Paper |
| Julie Stewart: What Do You Want Me To Do Next?: A View from the Village | Abstract Paper |
