Constructing Democracy: Human Rights, Citizenship, and Society in Latin America

by Elizabeth Jelin

In this pathbreaking contribution to debates about human rights, democracy, and society, distinguished social scientists from Latin America and the United States move beyond questions of state terror, violence, and similar abuses to embrace broader concepts of human rights: citizenship, identity, civil society, racism, gender discrimination, and poverty.Following an introduction that sets forth the conceptual framework, the first section of the book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813324394
• ISBN13: 9780813324395
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"