The Human Right to Housing in the Face of Land Policy and Social Citizenship : A Global Discourse Analysis

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship. The book concludes that planners and policy makers will not be able to completely fulfil the h...

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Main Author Kolocek, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Human rights.
Social policy.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Environmental sociology.
Sociology, Urban.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319534893
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-53489-3
Physical DescriptionXXI, 269 p. 11 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Housing, rights, land policy, and global social citizenship
  • 2. The monitoring of human rights Discourses on housing
  • 4. Land policy meets social citizenship on a global level
  • Part II: The discourse on the human right housing under the monitoring system of the ICESCR
  • 5. Changing views: Housing in the past four decades
  • 6. Comparative discussion: Interpretations of the human right to housing
  • 7. Conclusion.

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