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Koski, Jessica Powers.

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Human Rights and the Warming World: Knowing Climate Change as a Socio-Legal Problem.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Human Rights and the Warming World: Knowing Climate Change as a Socio-Legal Problem./
Author:	Koski, Jessica Powers.
Description:	326 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-10A(E).
Subject:	Social structure. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3705296
ISBN:	9781321782004

Human Rights and the Warming World: Knowing Climate Change as a Socio-Legal Problem.
Koski, Jessica Powers.

Human Rights and the Warming World: Knowing Climate Change as a Socio-Legal Problem. - 326 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2015.

This dissertation examines attempts at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to use human rights law to incite more ambitious action on global warming. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS), the sociology of law, and research on social movements, I argue that such efforts should be conceived as not only framing but also knowing climate change as a socio-legal problem. The IACHR and the UNHRC each outline a precise set of evidentiary requirements necessary to know that a human rights violation has occurred. Substantiating global warming's human rights impact requires that advocates marshal data to meet each arena's demands. Whereas the dominant natural scientific version of climate change relies heavily on natural science, the human rights frame rests on social knowledge. Through content analysis, interviews with key actors, and two weeks of participant observation at a United Nations climate summit, I identified the range of social knowledge claims and practices that advocates use to support their allegations. This analysis contributes to recent efforts to extend classic STS perspectives to the realm of social knowledge, in this case by deepening our understanding of the production of legal knowledge. Specifically, it highlights the role of performance and negotiation in the production of legal knowledge and further underscores the significance of place. Each arena's evidentiary requirements, rules of procedure, norms, and technologies shape how advocates formulate and authenticate their claims, molding the resultant knowledge. Those same site-specific factors that mediate the production of legal knowledge also shape the practice by which advocates translate political claims into legal claims, thus shaping the substance of their demands. Analyzing efforts to advance a human rights approach to climate change also shows that the human rights frame functions as much as an organizational as a moral resource, and it shows how a social movement's failure to achieve its instrumental aims shapes how we conceive of human rights. In addition, tracing the development of the human rights frame sheds light on framing dynamics by illustrating how an institutional arena's communication infrastructure and norms impact a frame's diffusion.

ISBN: 9781321782004Subjects--Topical Terms:

528995
Social structure.

Human Rights and the Warming World: Knowing Climate Change as a Socio-Legal Problem.
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