Social and Economic Rights in Theory and Practice : Critical Inquiries (Paperback)

Part I: Perspectives 1. Critical perspectives on social and economic rights, democracy and separation of powers 2. Rights-compromised or rights-savvy? The use of rights-based strategies to advance socio-economic struggles by Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African shack-dwellers’ movement 3. Resource questions in social and economic rights enforcement: A preliminary view Part II: Global social and economic rights practice: limitations and openings 2A: Latin America 4. Distribution of resources led by courts: A few words of caution 5. Latin American social constitutionalism: Courts and popular participation 6. Deliberative democracy, dialogic justice and the promise of social and economic rights 7. Between activism and deference: Social rights adjudication in the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal 2B : India 8. The tension between property rights and social and economic rights: A case study of India 9. Claiming the right to safe motherhood through litigation: The Indian story 2C: South Africa 10. Democratizing the socio-economic rights-enforcement process 11. The scope of the judicial role in the enforcement of social and economic rights: Limits and possibilities viewed from the South African experience 2D: Canada 12. Inclusive interpretations: Social and economic rights and the Canadian charter Part III: Looking forward 13. Adjudicating social and economic rights: Can democratic experimentalism help? 14. The constitutionalization of social and economic rights 15. Constitutionally binding social and economic rights as a compelling idea: Reciprocating perturbations in liberal and democratic constitutional visions