Populist authoritarian governments have jeopardized the human rights accomplishments of the 20th century. Ensuring their fulfillment has become a challenge for these governments and an issue for human rights defenders seeking to find ways to resist anti-democratic actions. This book seeks to expose the crisis of human rights at the hands of people who, despite rising to power through democratic means, now see democracy as a limiting institution that must be dismantled urgently. Restrictions on civil society and arbitrary detentions are some of the reasons why this populist and authoritarian vision is incompatible with human rights, which are guaranteed to some and denied to others. Through various narratives, the authors seek to recognize new spaces for struggle—such as political activism—to develop action-research tools in a context of crisis.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction: Reinstating Spaces for Human
Rights in the Context of Authoritarian Populism, César Rodríguez-Garavito
- Chapter 1 A Faceless Political Prisoner: Journey to the
Drama of Arbitrary Detentions in Venezuela, Ezequiel A. Monsalve F.
- Chapter 2 Criminalizing Community Healthcare
Workers: The Unsung Heroes, Ektaa Deochand
- Chapter 3 The Dark Side of the Food Industry:
Seeking Civil Society’s Silence, Slavenska Zec
- Chapter 4 How Do We Tell Difficult Stories
in Difficult Times?, Kerem Çiftçioğlu
- Chapter 5 Venezuela: The Mettle of Civility, Jennifer Peralta
- Chapter 6 Lalgarh Insurgency and Political Society:
How Eastern India Erupted in Anger
Against the Left Front Government, Rajanya Bose
- Chapter 7 The Right to be Forgotten:
Sergio’s Case, Sebastián Becker Castellaro
- Chapter 8 Reinstating Spaces for Civil Society:
Educating the Public Officers of Mexico
on the Right to Privacy and the Protection
of Personal Data, Natalia Mendoza Servín
- Contributors