Columbia University Press
Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Human Rights Abuses on the Record
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- Sandra Fahy
- Columbia University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780231176347
- 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches
- 1.55 pounds
- Political Science > Human Rights
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Dying for Rights scrutinizes North Korea's treatment of its own people as well as foreign nationals, how violations committed by the state spread into the international realm, and how North Korea uses its state media and presence at the United Nations. Fahy meticulously documents the extent of arbitrary detention, torture, executions, and the network of prison camps throughout the country. The book details systematic and widespread violations of freedom of speech and of movement, freedom from discrimination, and the rights to food and to life. Fahy weaves together public and private testimonies from North Koreans resettled abroad, as well as NGO reports, the stories and facts brought to light by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into North Korea, and North Korea's own state media, to share powerful personal narratives of human rights abuses. A compassionate yet objective investigation into the factors that sustain and perpetuate the flouting of basic rights, Dying for Rights reveals the profound culpability of the North Korean state in the systematic denial of human dignity.
Author Bio
Sandra Fahy is associate professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo.
My current research at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School focuses on how governments, past and present, use social media platforms and video to deny allegations of human rights abuses.
This research is transnational and casts a critical eye on how contemporary media technologies complicate the theory, practice and knowledge of human rights.
Scope of Teaching & Research
Socio-Cultural Anthropology
•Medical Anthropology of food, health, migration, refugees, war, militarism, violence
• Linguistic Anthropology of trauma, memory, governmentality, censorship, testimony, state media
• Human Rights theory and practice
• Visual Anthropology qualitative and quantitative research, computational and digital media analysis
I also teach in the Graduate Program in Global Studies.
Educational Background
Associate Professor
Social and Cultural Anthropology
B.A. ,York University, Toronto
M.A. ,York University, Toronto
Ph.D., School or Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Source: Sophia University and LinkedIn profile
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