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Book Review: Robinson, C. Beside One’s Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived

Beyond democracies such as the US, the pursuit of a human rights agenda lies firmly with scientists. Citing oceanography and climatology as examples, Blau in the book’s final chapter argues as there is a revolution ‘to harness science to the end of promoting human rights and a health environment, and reduce science’s prominent role in corporate wealth creation’. While it is likely that scientists would strenuously object to the implicit assumption that, as a discipline, science was wholly or previously occupied by ‘wealth creation’, the importance and value of scientific research for human rights, given the coming challenges of climate change, is an interesting perspective and challenges previous conceptualizations of human rights. This is perhaps the most interesting section presented in this volume; however, it remains underdeveloped. Although this collection is aimed at a varied audience (scholars, students and policymakers), its global reach is somewhat limited by its deliberate US focus and its almost exclusively US perspective. The exception, Tungrul Keskin’s chapter ‘Beyond Two Identities: Turkish Immigrants in Germany’, is an odd addition to this volume given the focus. Despite this, Sociology and Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-First Century provides a comprehensive historical overview of the human rights agenda in the US, and will be of value to North American sociologists or those interested in comparative sociology.