Robin Stryker & LaDawn Haglund 
Closing the Rights Gap [EPUB ebook] 
From Human Rights to Social Transformation

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables and Boxes
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Making Sense of the Multiple and Complex Pathways by which Human Rights Are Realized (La Dawn Haglund and Robin Stryker)
PART ONE: PROMISES AND CHALLENGES OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (ESCR) REALIZATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
1. Do Non–Human Rights Regimes Undermine the Achievement of Economic and Social Rights? (M. Rodwan Abouharb, David L. Cingranelli, and Mikhail Filippov)
2. Linking Law and Economics: Translating Economic and Social Human Rights Norms into Public Policy (William F. Felice)
3. Advances and Ongoing Challenges in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights within the Inter-American System and the United Nations Special Procedures System (Leonardo J. Alvarado)
PART TWO: THE ROLE OF DOMESTIC LAW AND COURTS IN ESCR REALIZATION
4. The Impact of Legal Strategies for Claiming Economic and Social Rights (Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks)
5. The Role of Human Rights Law in Protecting Environmental Rights in South Asia (Sumudu Atapattu)
6. The Morality of Law: The Case against Deportation of Settled Immigrants (Doris Marie Provine)
PART THREE: BEYOND JUDICIAL MECHANISMS AS MEANS TO ESCR REALIZATION
7. Social Movements and the Expansion of Economic and Social Human Rights Advocacy among International NGOs (Paul J. Nelson)
8. The Challenge of Ensuring Food Security: Global Perspectives and Evidence from India (Shareen Hertel and Susan Randolph)
9. Achieving Rights to Land, Water, and Health in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Heinz Klug)
10. Social Accountability in the World Bank: How Does It Overlap with Human Rights? (Hans-Otto Sano)
PART FOUR: MEASURING ESCR REALIZATION
11. Making the Principle of Progressive Realization Operational: Economic and Social Rights Obligations (Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, and Susan Randolph)
12. Deepening Our Understanding of Rights Realization through Disaggregation and Mapping: Integrating Census Data and Participatory GIS (Rimjhim Aggarwal and La Dawn Haglund)
13. Studying Courts in Context: The Role of Nonjudicial Institutional and Socio-Political Realities (Siri Gloppen)
Conclusion: Emerging Possibilities for Social Transformation (Robin Stryker and La Dawn Haglund)
Index

La Dawn Haglund is Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University and author of Limiting Resources: Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods.Robin Stryker is Professor of Sociology, Affiliated Professor of Law, Affiliated Professor of Government and Public Policy, and Research Director, National Institute for Civil Discourse, at the University of Arizona. She publishes regularly in journals including American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Sociological Methods and Research, Socio-Economic Review, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and Social Politics.