by Gillian MacNaughton (Editor), Diane F. Frey (Editor)
About the Author
Gillian MacNaughton is an Assistant Professor in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Peace, Democracy and Development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She works on economic and social rights, and human rights-based approaches to social justice. Her recent research is published in Health and Human Rights Journal, International Journal of Human Rights, and Georgetown Journal of International Law. MacNaughton has consulted for WHO, UNDP, UNICEF and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. She received her doctorate in law from the University of Oxford.
About this book
The rise of neoliberal policy and practice simultaneous to the growing recognition of economic and social rights presents a puzzle. Can the rights to food, water, health education, decent work, social security and the benefits of science prevail against market fundamentalism? Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World is about the potential of these rights to contest the adverse impacts of neoliberal policy and practice on human wellbeing. Cutting across several lines of human rights literature, the chapters address norm development, court decision making, policymaking, advocacy, measurement and social mobilization. The analyses reveal that neoliberalism infiltrates management practices, changes international policy goals, flattens public school curriculum and distorts the outputs of UN human rights treaty bodies. Are economic and social rights successful in challenging neoliberalism, are they simply marginalized or are they co-opted and incorporated into neoliberal frameworks? This multidisciplinary work by a geographically diverse group of scholars and practitioners begins to address these questions.
Table of contents
1 Introduction 1
Part I. Economic and Social Rights under Neoliberalism 25
2 Inequality, Neoliberalism, and Human Rights 27
3 Neoliberalism’s Law in Peru: A Model 41
4 Governing Risky Childhoods: How Neoliberal Governance Prescriptions Rule Out Social Rights in Israel 59
5 Neoliberalism and the Privatization of Social Rights in Education 81
6 E quality Rights beyond Neoliberal Constraints 103
Part II. Economic and Social Rights in Times of Crisis 125
7 A Hierarchy of Comfort? The CESCR’s Approach to the 2008 Economic Crisis 127
8 Do Metrics Matter? Accountability for Economic and Social Rights in Post-Revolution Egypt 150
9 C ontesting Neoliberalism: Bringing in Economic and Social Rights to End Violence against Women in Mexico 173
10 C hallenging Neoliberalism: Making Economic and Social Rights Matter in the Peacebuilding Agenda 192
Part III. Economic and Social Rights in Development 215
11 Developmental States, Neoliberalism, and the Right to Food: Brazil and South Africa 217
12 H uman Rights Informed the Sustainable Development Goals, but Are They Lost in New Zealand’s Neoliberal Aid Program? 236
13 Neoliberal Developmentalism in South Korea and the Unfulfilled Promise of Economic and Social Rights 261
Part IV. Accountability for Economic and Social Rights 283
14 Social Justice, Neoliberalism, and Labor Standards at the International Labour Organization 285
15 Neoliberal Geographies and the Justiciability of Economic and Social Rights 304
16 Can Human Rights Challenge Neoliberal Logics? Evidence from Water and Sanitation Rulings in São Paulo, Brazil 323
17 Conclusion 338
Index 355
Length: 382 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (June 28, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1108418155
ISBN-13: 978-1108418157