Human Rights and Free Trade in Mexico - by Ariadna Estévez Hardcover

Book Synopsis

This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.

Review Quotes

"This is a highly original and ground-breaking study, a sophisticated empirical look at the use of human rights discourse to construct collective identities in order to address social and economic grievances. Estévez also deals with some important theoretical issues in the field of human rights, particularly whether there is a specific Latin American approach human rights, different from dominant Western mainstream discourses. This theoretical and substantive approach will be valuable to scholars of human rights, social movements, and contemporary Mexican and Latin American politics." - Francisco Panizza, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, London School of Economics

About the Author

ARIADNA ESTÉVEZ is a Researcher at the Centre for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (CISAN-UNAM).