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About Gert Verschraegen

Gert Verschraegen is associate professor of sociology at the University of Antwerp. His recent publications include “The Evolution of Welfare State Governance,” in Evolutionary Governance Theory: Theory and Applications, ed. Raoul Beunen et al. (Springer, 2015); “Fabricating Social Europe: From Neo-Corporatism to Governance by Numbers,” in The Evolution of Intermediary Institutions in Europe: From Corporatism to Governance, ed. Eva Hartmann and Poul F. Kjaer (Palgrave, 2015); and Making Human Rights Intelligible: Towards a Sociology of Human Rights (Hart Publishing, 2013), co-edited with Mikael Rask Madsen.

Toward a New Sociology of Human Rights?

August 3, 2016 by and
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The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights Hans Joas Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, ix + 219. While disciplines such as law, political science, and history have now developed distinct subfields of human rights research, sociology has only recently started developing a clear research agenda with regard to human rights. Considering the importance of human rights in contemporary society as a legal, political, and moral phenomenon underpinning a whole array of social institutions, the late arrival of sociology is all the Continue reading → Continue reading →