Course

Human Rights, Philosophy, Law and Politics

Litteratur delkurs 1

Böcker:
Beitz, Charles R., 2009. The Idea of Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (235 s) Finns även 3 ex att låna som e-bok via Ebook Central.

Freeman, Michael, 2011. Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary approach. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2 uppl. (240 s)

Hunt, Lynn, 2007. Inventing Human Rights: A History. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. (272 s)

Ishay, Micheline R., 2008. The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. Berkeley: University of California Press (430 s). Finns även 3 ex att låna som e-bok via EbscoHost.

Johansson Dahre, Ulf, 2014. Mellan ord och handling: Globaliseringens konsekvenser för de mänskliga rättigheterna. Lund: Studentlitteratur. (150 s)

Artiklar:
Akbarzadeh, Sharam & MacQueen, Benjamin, 2008. Framing the debate on Islam and human rights. I: Akbarzadeh & MacQueen (red), Islam and Human Rights in Practice: Perspectives across the Ummah. London: Routledge. S. 1-11. (10 s)

Alston, Philip, 2013. Does the Past Matter? On the Origins of Human Rights. I: Harvard Law Review 126: 2043-2081. (36 s) Kan laddas ner från: cdn.harvardlawreview.org/

Aristotle, 1962. The Politics. London: Penguin. S. 55-87, 295-299. (37 s)

Burke, Edmund, 1982 [1799]. ”Reflektioner om revolutionen i Frankrike”. Contra: Stockholm. (25 s)

Chan, Joseph, 1999. A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China. I: Bauer & Bell (red), The east Asian Challenge for Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. S. 212-240. (28 s)

Donnelly, Jack, 1992. ”Third Generation Rights”. Paper at human rights Conference, Amsterdam. I: Brölmann, Catherine, Lefeber, René & Zieck, Marjoleine (red.), Peoples and minorities in international law. Dordrecht: Nijhoff.  (42 s)

Douzinas, Costas, 2000. The End of Human Rights: Critical legal Thought at the Turn of the Century. Oxford: Hart Publishing. S. 1-23, 371-380. (32 s)

Edelstein, Dan, 2014. Enlightenment Rights Talk. I: The Journal of Modern History 86.3. S. 530-565. (35 s)

Eliasson, Jan, 2011. Peace, Development and Human Rights: The Indispensable Connection”. The Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture, Uppsala University (22 s) Tillgänglig via www.daghammarskjold.se

Fukuyama, Francis, 1989. The End of History. I: The National Interest, summer 1989. (25 s)

Gewirth, Alan, 1982. “Human Rights” (övers. Per Bauhn). Stockholm: Thales. S. 40-80. (40 s)

Howard-Haussmann, Rhoda, 2005. The second great transformation: human rights leapfrogging in the era of globalization. I: Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 27. S. 1-40. (40 s) Tillgänglig via Proquest Political Science

Johansson Dahre, Ulf, 2017. Searching for a middle ground: Anthropologists and debate on the universalism and the cultural relativism of human rights. I: The International Journal of Human Rights. S. 1-18. (18 s)

Leary, Virginia A., 1991. Postliberal Strands in Western Human Rights Theory. I: A. Na’Aim (red), Human Rights on Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. S. 105-132. (28 s)

Liu, Lydia H., 2014. Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights around 1948. I: Critical Inquiry, 40 (4). S. 385-417. (32 s)

Kant, Immanuel, 1995 [1764]. ”The Differences between the races” (3 s)

Locke, John, 1988 [1689]. Two Treatises of Government. I: Strömholm, Stig & Frändberg, Åke (red), (övers. Thomas Mautner). Rättsteoretiska klassiker. Stockholm: Thales. S. 169-183. (15 s) Finns även som e-bok via Ebook Central på engelska.

Marx, Karl “Om judefrågan” [1843] I: Människans frigörelse. Göteborg: Daidalos (15 s).

Mazower, Mark, 2004. The Strange Triumph of Human Rights, 1933-1950. I: Historical Journal, 47 (2). S. 379-98. (19 s)

Monshipouri, Mahmood, et al, 2003. Multinational Corporations and the Ethics of Global Responsibility: Problems and Possibilities. I: Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 25. S. 965-989. (25 s) Tillgänglig via Proquest Political Science.

Othman, Norani, 1999. Grounding Human Rights Arguments in Non-Western Culture: Shari’a and the Citizenship Rights of Women in a Modern Islamic State. I: Bauer & Bell (red), The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. S. 169-192. (23 s)

Pedersen, Susan, 2012. Samoa on the World Stage: Petitions and Peoples before the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations. I: The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40 (2). S. 231-61. (30 s)

Paine, Thomas, 1992 [1791]. Människans rättigheter (övers. Thomas Warburton). Stockholm: Ordfront. S. 49-90 (41 s)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1984 [1750]. Discourse on the Origins and the Foundations of Inequality among men. London: Penguin. S. 77-107 (30 s). Tillgänglig via Google Books

Simpson, Bradley R, 2013. Self-Determination, Human Rights, and the End of Empire in the 1970s. I: Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 4.2. S. 239-260. (21 s) Tillgänglig via THS-tidskriftsportal

Tatsuo, Inoue, 1999. Liberal democracy and Asian Orientalism. I: Bauer & Bell (red), The east Asian Challenge for Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. S. 27-59. (33 s)

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1995 (1792). ”Vindication of the Rights of Women”. (11 s) Tillgänglig som e-bok via Ebook Central.


Arbetsmaterial:
The United States Declaration of Independence, 1776

The United States Constitution and Amendment: “The Bill of Rights”, 1789 & 1791.

The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789

The League of Nations Covenant, 1919, art. 22 och 23

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

The United Nations Global Compact, 2000

Litteratur delkurs 2

Bantekas, Illias & Oette, Lutz, 2013. International Human Rights Law and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (720 s)

Shaw, Malcolm N., 2014. International Law, 7th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (940 s)

Svanberg, Katinka, 2015. En introduktion till traktaträtten. En lärobok i traktaträtt. 5 uppl. Stockholm: Norstedts juridik. (110 s)

Artiklar och rättsfall tillkommer. 

Litteratur delkurs 3

Arendt, Hannah, 2017. Rätten till rättigheter: Politiska texter. Red. Anders Burman. Stockholm: Tankekraft förlag. (246 s)

Brown, Wendy, 2004. ‘The Most We Can Hope For. . .’: Human Rights and the Politics of Fatalism. I: South Atlantic Quarterly 103 no. 2/3. (12 s)

Ingram, James D., 2008. What Is a “Right to Have Rights”? Three Images of the Politics of Human Rights. I: American Political Science Review 102 no. 4. (16 s) Tillgänglig via www.jstor.org

James, Susan, 2003. Rights as Enforceable Claims. I: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 103 no. 1 (15 s) Tillgänglig via www.jstor.org

Merry, Sally Engle, 2006. Human Rights and Gender Violence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (269 s)

Nussbaum, Martha, 2013. Creating Capabilities. New York: Belknap Press. (237 s). 3 ex finns på svenska, finns även som e-bok på engelska tillgänglig via Ebook Central.

Cruft, Rowan S. & Liao, Matthew & Massimo, Renzo (red.), 2015. Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights. New York: Oxford University Press. (703 s)

Rawls, John, 1987. The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus. I: Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 7 no. 1. (25 s)

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 2004. Righting Wrongs. I: The South Atlantic Quarterly 103, no. 2/3. (60 s)

Douzinas, Costas & Conor, Gearty (red.), 2014. The Meaning of Rights. New York: Cambridge University Press. (328 s)

Originaltexter och artiklar (max. 400 s) tillkommer.


Literature last revised on April 24, 2017.

The schedule is available at the latest one month before the course starts. We do not recommend that you print the schedule as some changes may happen.

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Ulf Johansson Dahre

PhD, Docent

ulf.johansson-dahre@ehs.se

Linde Lindkvist

Docent, Senior lecturer

Grades

A = Excellent, B = Very good, C = Good, D = Satisfactory, E = Sufficient, Fx = Insufficient, F = Insufficient

Examination Format

  • Papers
  • Take-home examination

Grundläggande behörighet.
Högskolestudier om minst 180 hp, där huvudområdet utgörs av minst 90 hp i mänskliga rättigheter eller ämne inom teologiskt, humanistiskt-filosofiskt, samhällsvetenskapligt, juridiskt huvudområde eller motsvarande, inklusive ett självständigt arbete om minst 15 hp. Kunskaper i svenska och engelska motsvarande vad som krävs för grundläggande behörighet till svensk högskoleutbildning på grundnivå.

För fullgjord kurs krävs minst 80% närvaro vid föreläsningar och 100% närvaro vid seminarier/gruppövningar och andra tillfällen för redovisning. Frånvaro därutöver kan kompenseras genom kompletteringsuppgift (-er) om kursansvarig lärare bedömer det möjligt. Vid frånvaro om 50 % eller mer betraktas kursen som avbruten, även om examinationsuppgifter har genomförts.

Established by The College of Human Rights at Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm on October 10, 2014.

Last revised on October 26, 2015.