Bulletin - 16 November 2007

Andrea Cornwall (Fellow, IDS) & Maxine Molyneux (eds)
Politics of Rights: Dilemmas of feminist praxis
Taylor and Francis, £70 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780415437721

Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with ‘rights work’ in a variety of settings.

Articles on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East and South Asia explore the dilemmas that arise for feminist praxis in these diverse locations, and address the question of what rights can contribute to struggles for gender justice.

Marie-Benedicte Dembour (Professor of Law & Anthropology) and Tobias Kelly (eds)
Paths to International Justice
Cambridge University Press, £25.99 (paperback), £65 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780521709200, 9780521882637

The publisher says: “This volume focuses on the everyday social relationships through which international justice is produced. Using case studies from the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Women's Convention Committee and elsewhere, it explores international justice as a process that takes place at the intersection of the often contradictory practices of applicants, lawyers, bureaucrats, victims, accused and others.

With a sensitivity to broader institutional and political inequalities, the contributors ask how and why international justice is mobilised, understood and abandoned by concrete social actors, and to what effect.”

Kevin Gray (Research Fellow)
Korean Works and Neoliberal Globalisation
Taylor and Francis, £75 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780415419093

One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea’s transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent and dynamic labour movement. Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation examines current trends and transformations within the Korean labour movement since the 1990s.

Andew Hadfield (Professor of English)
Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance
Oxford University Press, £18.99 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780199233656

The publisher says: “What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics, particularly their own lack of representation in public institutions.

“This stimulating book examines fictional and non-fictional writings, illustrating both the close connections between the two made by early modern readers and the problems involved in the usual assumption that we can make sense of the past with the categories available to us.”