Jean Connolly Carmalt

City University of New York - John Jay College of Criminal Justice | John Jay CUNY · Department of Political Science

The term critical geographies of human rights refers to the idea that law, society, geography, and injustice are mutually constitutive. This article proposes one possible theoretical framework for analyzing critical geographies of human rights, drawing from scholarship in critical human geography, sociolegal studies, and public international law. T...

Cambridge Core - Human Rights - Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World - edited by Gillian MacNaughton

Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World - edited by Gillian MacNaughton June 2018

Few geographers have studied the theory, practice, and construction of international human rights. This article argues that human geographers should engage in what I term ‘critical geographies of human rights’. In essence, it argues that (a) geography is crucial to human rights claims because there is a spatial dimension to every injustice, (b) hum...

Climate change prompts increased urbanization and vulnerability to natural hazards. Urbanization processes are relevant to a right to health analysis of natural hazards because they can exacerbate pre-disaster inequalities that create vulnerability. The 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince and the 2005 hurricane in New Orleans provide vivid illustrati...

This article looks at the relationship between human rights law and geography. Drawing from a meeting of the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), the article explores how the right to life was legally interpreted to apply to the loss of life associated with Hurricane Katrina. In particular, the article argues that the HRC's legal interpretation of the...

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed “freedom from want” to be one of the four essential liberties necessary to achieve human security. The polio-stricken president included in his definition of freedom “the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health” (Roosevelt 1944, 41). This expansive visio...

This article builds on geography’s engagement with ethics by asking what normative geographies focused on human health might look like. We use the ethics of care and human rights law to frame a normative approach to health geography. The article explores the content of these frameworks before grounding them in a particular instance of inequality fo...

As interest in the relationship between geography and ethics grows, it becomes important to examine how different approaches to ethical philosophy may fit with geographic scholarship. To that end, this article focuses on a particular approach to ethical responsibility—international human rights law—and asks how that approach can be put into convers...

Human rights practitioners have become increasingly concerned with how to translate universal norms into locally meaningful standards. The field of human geography offers several methodologies and theories that help with this endeavor. Using a geographic perspective for human rights work means focusing on physical access, available personnel, and o...

Human rights practitioners have become increasingly concerned with how to translate universal norms into locally meaningful standards. The field of human geography offers several methodologies and theories that help with this endeavor. Using a geographic perspective for human rights work means focusing on physical access, available personnel, and o...