Research
Research
Professor Alison Brysk
Global and International Studies
2121 Social Science Building
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
“Sex as Slavery? Understanding Private Wrongs,” Human Rights Review; Volume 11, 2010.
“‘My Brother’s Keeper’? Inter-ethnic Solidarity and Human Rights,” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism; Volume 10, No. 1; 2010.
“Beyond Framing and Shaming: Human Trafficking, Human Security and Human Rights,” Journal of Human Security; Volume 5, Issue 3; 2009.
“When words fail: communicative action and human rights in Colombia," Revista Colombia Internacional 69, 2009
“Democratic Reform and Injustice in Latin America,” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy, Winter/Spring 2008.
“Making Values Make Sense: The Social Construction of Human Rights Foreign Policy,” Journal for Human Rights [Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte], Volume 2, 2007.
Co-author. “The Globalization of Rights: From Citizenship to Human Rights,” with Gershon Shafir, Citizenship Studies, Special Issue on Human Rights and Citizenship Rights, Volume 10, Issue 3, 2006.
“Global Good Samaritans?: Costa Rica’s Human Rights Foreign Policy,” Global Governance, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer 2005.
“Children Across Borders: Patriarchy, Property, or Persons?” in People Out of Place, ed. Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, Routledge Press, 2004.
Co-author. “After Empire: European Identities and Post-Colonial Families of Nations,” with Craig Parsons and Wayne Sandholtz, European Journal of International Relations, Vol.8, No.2, June 2002.
“Democratizing Civil Society in Latin America,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 11, No.3, July 2000, 151-165.
“Globalization: The Double-Edged Sword,” Report on the Americas, Vol.XXXIV, No.1, July-August 2000, 29-33.
Co-author. "Liberalization and Ethnic Conflict in Latin America," with Carol Wise, Studies in Comparative International Development, Fall 1997, 76-104.
"Hearts and Minds: Bringing Symbolic Politics Back In," Polity, Vol.XXVII, No. 4, Summer 1995, 559-585.
"The Politics of Measurement: Counting the Disappeared in Argentina," Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.16, No.4, Nov.1994, 676-692.
"From Above and Below: Social Movements, The International System and Human Rights in Argentina," Comparative Political Studies, Vol.26, No.3, October 1993, 259-285.
Books
Publications
Selected Articles
Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press, 2009, Author.
The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change, and Democratization, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.
From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
De La Tribu A La Aldea Global,
Edicions Bellaterra, 2009, Author.
Globalization and Human Rights, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, Editor.
Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society, Routledge Press (Human Rights Horizons series), 2005.
La Política de Derechos Humanos en Argentina: Protesta, Cambio y Democratización.
People Out of Place: Globalization and the Citizenship Gap, with Gershon Shafir, Routledge Press, 2004, Co-editor.
National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counter-terrorism, with Gershon Shafir, University of California Press, 2007, Co-editor.
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights Reframing Contemporary Slavery, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, Co-editor.