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33 Hum. Rts. Q. 1142 (2011)
Human Rights in Contemporary Political Sociology: The Primacy of Social Subjects

handle is hein.journals/hurq33 and id is 1152 raw text is: HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY Human Rights in Contemporary Political Sociology: the Primacy of Social Subjects Ariadna Estevez* ABSTRACT A temporal overlap involving the constructivist turn in sociology and national and transnational human rights struggles has transformed human rights into an important research topic within political sociology. This article establishes the principal sociopolitical research questions in the field of human rights and conducts a review of academic literature on the subject, establishing three main fields of human rights research within the sub-discipline: human rights as the articulating axis for collective action; subject participation in the construction of discourse and the effects of domination and emancipa- tion on this construction; and transformations to the category of citizenship resulting from the challenges posed by global migration. * Ariadna Estivez has a Ph.D. in Human Rights (University of Sussex, UK), a M.A. in Political Sociology (City University, UK) and a first degree in Journalism and Mass Media (National Autonomous University of Mexico). Currently she works as a full time researcher at the Centre for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and tutor in the M.A. in Human Rights and Democracy at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). Her current research interests are human rights discourses as the basis for a decolonized global justice, in the context of international migration, and the construction of a sociopolitical theory of human rights. She is the author of several academic articles, including: Taking The Human Rights of Migrants Seriously: Towards a Decolonized Global Justice,14 International journal of Human Rights (2010), and A Latin American Sociopolitical Conceptualization of Human Rights, Journal of Human Rights (2008). She is also the author of Human Rights and Free Trade in Mexico: a Sociopolitical and Discursive Perspective (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2008). Human Rights Quarterly 33 (2011) 1142-1162 0 2011 by The Johns Hopkins University Press

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