Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Getting Beyond the Hall of Mirrors -- The Hall of Mirrors -- Rediscovering Creative Movement Praxis -- 2. The 'Sociality' of Natural Rights -- Natural Rights in the Hall of Mirrors -- Social Movement Praxis in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 3. The Lost Nineteenth Century -- Understanding and Explaining Absence -- The Rise of Workers' and Socialist Movements -- At the Heart of the Nineteenth Century: Struggles for Self-Determination -- 4. The Paradox of Institutionalisation -- Institutions and Institutionalisation -- The Institutionalisation of Particularity -- The Institutionalisation of Universality -- The Paradox and Human Rights Activism -- 5. New Movements? Old Wrongs? -- Conceptualising 'New Social Movements' -- Re-opening the Analysis and Critique of Power -- Five Sites of Power and 'Old Wrongs' -- 'Ageing' and Resurgence -- 6. Expressive and Instrumental Dimensions of Movement Activism -- Locating the Expressive Dimension -- From 'Interests' to 'Identities' -- From Identity to Recognition -- The Expressive/Instrumental Dynamic -- 7. Analyses of Globalisations and Human Rights -- On Globalisation -- Human Rights as Globalisation -- The Rise of a 'Movement of Movements'? -- 8. Renewing the Challenge to Power -- The Contemporary Crises of Human Rights -- Re-orienting Creative Human Rights Praxis -- Human Rights and Institutional Democratisation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.