Making human rights intelligible :

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making human rights intelligible : an introduction to a sociology of human rights / Mikael Rask Madsen and Gert Verschraegen -- State building, constitutional rights and the social construction of norms : outline for a sociology of constitutions / Chris Thornhill -- Differentiation and inclusion : a neglected sociological approach to fundamental rights / Gert Verschraegen -- Beyond prescription : toward a reflexive sociology of human rights / Mikael Rask Madsen -- Human rights between brute fact and articulated aspiration / Paul Stenner -- International human rights versus democracy promotion : on two different meanings of human rights in US foreign policy / Nicolas Guilhot -- Towards a socio-legal analysis of the European Convention on Human Rights / Steven Greer -- In defence of societies / Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada -- From citizenship to human rights to human rights education / Francisco O. Ramirez and Rennie Moon -- (Human) rights and solidarity : restructuring the national welfare space / Frederik Thuesen -- Adapting locally to international health and human rights standards : an alternative theoretical framework for progressive realisation / Lesley A. Jacobs -- "Legal form" and the purchase of human rights discourse in domestic policy-making : the achievement of same-sex marriage in Canada / Luke McNamara -- Activating the law : exploring the legal responses of NGOs to gross rights violations / Loveday Hodson -- The complexities of human rights implementation within the Costa Rican police system / Quirine Eijkman.