International law from below : development, social movements, and Third World resistance / Balakrishnan Rajagopal.

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Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. International law, development, and Third World resistance
  • 1. Writing Third World resistance into international law 9
  • 2. International law and the development encounter
  • Pt. II. International law, Third World resistance, and the institutionalization of development: the invention of the apparatus
  • 3. Laying the groundwork: the Mandate system
  • 4. Radicalizing institutions and/or institutionalizing radicalism? UNCTAD and the NIEO debate
  • 5. From resistance to renewal: Bretton Woods institutions and the emergence of the "new" development agenda
  • 6. Completing a full circle: democracy and the discontent of development
  • Pt. III. Decolonizing resistance: human rights and the challenge of social movements
  • 7. Human rights and the Third World: constituting the discourse of resistance
  • 8. Recoding resistance: social movements and the challenge to international law
  • 9. Markets, gender and identity: a case study of the Working Women's Forum as a social movement
  • Pt. IV. Epilogue.