TY - JOUR

T1 - Activism across Borders

T2 - A Human Rights Perspective

AU - Hurst, Mark

PY - 2024/4/30

Y1 - 2024/4/30

N2 - Daniel Laqua’s recent monograph Activism across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe raises a number of pertinent issues for historians of human rights to reflect upon. This article takes the four analytical lenses highlighted by Laqua for assessing transnational activism and applies them to cases of human rights activism in the Cold War and post-Cold War era. In doing so, this article argues that Laqua’s framework offers much scope for historians to approach the history of human rights activism with a more critical edge. It also highlights the challenge of retaining an analytical focus on an issue as emotive and complex as human rights, and how Laqua’s lenses may offer a practical methodology to do this.

AB - Daniel Laqua’s recent monograph Activism across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe raises a number of pertinent issues for historians of human rights to reflect upon. This article takes the four analytical lenses highlighted by Laqua for assessing transnational activism and applies them to cases of human rights activism in the Cold War and post-Cold War era. In doing so, this article argues that Laqua’s framework offers much scope for historians to approach the history of human rights activism with a more critical edge. It also highlights the challenge of retaining an analytical focus on an issue as emotive and complex as human rights, and how Laqua’s lenses may offer a practical methodology to do this.

U2 - 10.1017/S0020859024000129

DO - 10.1017/S0020859024000129

M3 - Journal article

VL - 69

SP - 147

EP - 155

JO - International Review of Social History

JF - International Review of Social History

SN - 0020-8590

IS - 1

ER -