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This book seeks to contribute to the analysis of the serious violations of human rights in Mexico during the processes of democratic transition and the "War on Drugs" by taking bodies and territories as archives of the crimes committed by the Mexican State in the last decades. The text presents an analysis of the disappearance of persons, forced internal displacement, and gender violence as systematic expressions of State violence. These fields of research allow us to point out tensions between social practices and the institutional fragility that systematically denies human rights violations while at the same time ratifies and celebrates them. The thematic knotting between bodies and territories is anchored in the processes of shaping a memory that expresses State violence and presents the silenced resistances of minority social groups that elude the traditional forms of registration, control and collection of data. From these coordinates, body-territories are approached as scenarios where intersectionally-knotted violences unfold. The theoretical approaches considered are mobilized through a critical approach to capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy in order to analyze public policies and narratives related to the protection of bodies-territories, as well as the responses to the needs, interests and preferences of different groups and individuals whose lives are marked by the experience of serious human rights violations. Finally, this approach also considers the new ways in which crimes against humanity unfold in situations of democratic transition, as well as the forms of symbolic exchanges in the transmission of meaning and community bonding. Bodies, Territories and Serious Violations of Human Rights in Mexico will be of interest to academic researchers and graduate students in different fields of knowledge, such as criminology, sociology, history, anthropology, philosophy, psychology and the interdisciplinary field of human rights studies.

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Nul ne peut y échapper : les droits et libertés fondamentaux sont partout. De fait, la référence à la fondamentalité, indissolublement liée à l'essor de l'« État de droit », s'est largement banalisée au point de devenir un passage obligé de tout discours juridique et politique. Mais ce succès grandissant ne doit pas tromper. L'expression « droits et libertés fondamentaux » ne donne pas une vision cohérente et homogène des objets qu'elle vise. Telle est son ambivalence. Ce sont ces dynamiques et ces paradoxes, parfois ces contradictions qui peuvent se faire jour entre « droits » et « libertés », que Mustapha Afroukh s'attache à comprendre. En retraçant l'origine de cette nouvelle catégorie, il analyse le rôle central qu'exerce le juge dans leur protection mais aussi les interrogations que son usage suscite encore aujourd'hui, dans un contexte où se fragilise un peu plus chaque jour le modèle de l'État de droit.

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"Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, underline common aspirations. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of human rights are at the heart of this book. An international line up of contributors with a background in practice and theory and long-term engagement with the cities shed light on these politics in cities in four continents and eight cities, presenting a wealth of empirical detail and disciplinary theorisation. They analyse the 'city society', the urban actors involved, and the mechanisms of human rights mobilisation. In doing so, they show the commonalities in rights engagement in today's globalised and often spatially deeply inequal cities characterised by urban law, private capital but also communities that rally around concepts as the 'right to the city'. At the same time, they show how very different these dynamics play out in postcolonial contexts and specific political dispensations. Most importantly, the chapters shed light on the conditions under which this mobilisation truly contributes to social justice, be it concerning the simple right to presence, cultural rights, accessible housing or - in times of Covid - health care. Urban Politics of Human Rights provides indispensable reading for anyone with a practical or theoretical interest in the complex, deeply political, but also truly promising interrelationship between human rights and the urban"-- Provided by publisher.

Human rights.