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Human Rights Mainstreaming as a Strategy for Institutional Power
- Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2010
- pp. 47-58
- 10.1353/hum.2010.0003
- Article
- Additional Information
Koskenniemi criticizes the recent proposal to "mainstream" human rights on the grounds that such mainstreaming is either useless or dangerous -- and in any case sacrifices the critical, utopian perspective human rights provides by remaining institutionally external.