In his well-researched biography, Mike Chinoy chronicles Kevin Boyle's life and career as a scholar, activist and lawyer, bringing to light his under-appreciated role in the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and the efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, as well as his contributions to human rights movements in the United Kingdom, Europe and the world. Are You With Me? is an important contribution to the literature on the actors who have shaped the norms, institutions and operations of human rights. In its efforts to shed light on one man, the book offers a fresh alternative to state-centric accounts of the origins of human rights. The book offers a portrait of a social movement actor turned legal scholar who used the law to contest the social inequalities against the minority community to which he belonged and to push for a solution to the underlying political conflict, as well as revelations of the complex power dynamics between human rights lawyers and the social movements they represent. In these respects Are You With Me? also provides valuable insights for socio-legal scholars, especially those focusing on legal mobilisation. At the same time the book could have provided a fuller and more complex biographical account had Chinoy been geographically and linguistically comprehensive in selecting his interviewees. The exclusion of Kurdish lawyers and human rights advocates is noticeable, particularly in light of the inclusion of Boyle's local partners in other contexts, such as South Africa.

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对文艺复兴时期人权人的亲密而以盎格鲁为中心的叙述

在他精心研究的传记中，迈克·奇诺伊 (Mike Chinoy) 记录了凯文·博伊尔 (Kevin Boyle) 作为学者、活动家和律师的生活和职业生涯，揭示了他在北爱尔兰民权运动中被低估的作用以及为和平解决冲突所做的努力，以及他对英国、欧洲和世界人权运动的贡献。你和我在一起吗？是对塑造人权规范、机构和运作的行为者的文献的重要贡献。在努力揭示一个人的过程中，这本书为以国家为中心的关于人权起源的叙述提供了一种新的替代方案。这本书描绘了一位社会运动演员转变为法律学者的肖像，他利用法律来对抗他所属的少数群体的社会不平等，并推动解决潜在的政治冲突，以及揭示复杂的权力人权律师与他们所代表的社会运动之间的动态。在这些方面你和我在一起吗？也为社会法律学者，特别是那些关注法律动员的学者提供了宝贵的见解。同时，如果 Chinoy 在选择他的受访者时在地理和语言上是全面的，那么这本书本可以提供一个更完整、更复杂的传记。库尔德律师和人权倡导者被排除在外是显而易见的，特别是考虑到博伊尔的当地合作伙伴在南非等其他情况下的参与。