Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights is an edited collection which brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines.

Rajini Srikanth is Professor of English and Dean of the Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Her research interests include the intersection between literature and human rights, post-apartheid South Africa, comparative race and ethnic studies, and Asian American literature. Her recent publications include Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law (2012) and The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (2016).

Elora Halim Chowdhury is Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Her research interests include transnational feminisms, film and culture, and human rights narrative with an emphasis on South Asia. Her recent publications include Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh (2011) and Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism and Transnational Solidarity (2016).

Introduction; Part I. Human Rights Discourse: Context and History; Chapter 1: Imaginary and Real Strangers: Constructing and Reconstructing the Human in Human Rights Discourse and Instruments; Chapter 2: Rise of the Global Human Rights Regime: Challenging Power with Humanity; Chapter 3: Between Nothingness and Infinity: Settlement and Anti-Blackness as the Overdetermination of Human Rights; Chapter 4: Human Rights, Latin America, and Left Internationalism during the Cold War; Chapter 5: Women, Gender, and Human Rights; Chapter 6: The United States-Mexico Border and Human Rights; Chapter 7: Unintended Consequences in the Postcolonies: When Struggling South Africans Experience Rights Discourse As Disempowering Part II. Critical Areas in Human Rights; Chapter 8: The Mysterious Disappearance of Human Rights in the 2030 Development Agenda; Chapter 9: Addressing General Recommendation No. 35 from an Intersectional Perspective on Violence, Gender and Disability in Mexico; Chapter 10: Global LGBTQ politics and Human Rights; Chapter 11: Refugee Camps and the (Educational) Rights of the Child; Chapter 12: Persistent Voices: A History of Indigenous People and Human Rights in Australia, 1950s-2000s; Part III. Praxis and Human Rights; Chapter 13: So You Want to Work in Human Rights?; Chapter 14: Migrant Workers in the Gulf: Theoretical and Human Rights Dilemmas; Chapter 15: Ethical Reckoning: Theorizing Gender, Vulnerability and Agency in Bangladesh Muktijuddho Film; Chapter 16: Right Now in No Place with Strangers: Eudora Welty's Queer Love; Chapter 17: On The Human Right to Peace in Times of Contemporary Colonial Power; Chapter 18: Beyond Dignity: A Case Study of the Mis/Use of Human Rights Discourse in Development Campaigns; Chapter 19: Teaching Health and Human Rights in a Psychology Capstone: Cultivating Connections between Rights, Personal Wellness and Social Justice; Appendix