Longing, Loathing, and Nostalgia for Community: Human Rights and a Politics of Reckoning

*Debra L. DeLaet is Professor of Political Science at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where she serves as the David E. Maxwell Distinguished Professor of International Affairs. Her major research interests are in the area of human rights, global health, and gender issues in world politics. She has published three books: U.S. Immigration Policy in an Age of Rights (Praeger 2000), The Global Struggle for Human Rights (Wadsworth, 2006), and (co-authored with David E. DeLaet) Global Health in the 21st Century: the Globalization of Disease and Wellness (Paradigm Publishers, 2012). In addition to these books, she has published numerous articles and book chapters in her areas of interest. In her current scholarly work, Professor DeLaet is particularly interested in questions related to human rights in everyday politics and in investigating how to build capacity in civil society to translate abstract global norms into concrete human rights practices within communities. She can be reached at debra.delaet@drake.edu