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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kolocek, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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