A new special issue on the Sociology of Human Rights released

The International Journal of Human Rights

Volume 16, Issue 8, 2012

Foreword

Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short & Matthew Waites
pages 1123-1126

Understanding torture: the strengths and the limits of social theory

Lydia Morris
pages 1127-1141

Genocide and settler colonialism: can a Lemkin-inspired genocide perspective aid our understanding of the Palestinian situation?

Haifa Rashed & Damien Short
pages 1142-1169

‘In countries like that…’ moral boundaries and implicatory denial in response to human rights appeals

Irene Bruna Seu

The soldier, human rights and the military covenant: a permissible state of exception?

Ross McGarry, Gabe Mythen & Sandra Walklate

Climate change and the human rights challenge: extending justice beyond the borders of the nation state

Tracey Skillington
pages 1196-1212

Causes and consequences of international migration: sociological evidence for the right to mobility

Tanya Golash-Boza & Cecilia Menjívar
pages 1213-1227

Corporate social responsibility: a duplicitous distraction?

Nicholas Connolly
pages 1228-1249

‘You have a right to be nourished and fed, but do I have a right to make sure you eat your food?’: children's rights and food practices in residential care

Samantha Punch, Ian McIntosh & Ruth Emond
pages 1250-1262