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Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

  • ISBN-13: 9781786600141
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNAT.
  • Edited by Birgit Schippers
  • Price: AUD $198.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/11/2018
  • Format: Hardback (100.00mm X 100.00mm) 274 pages Weight: 580g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the significance of human rights for critical theory and practice. While the contributions engage sensitively yet thoroughly with the regulatory, disciplinary, and exclusionary effects of human rights, they do so without giving up on the transformative potential of human rights. By thinking productively through the exclusions, paradoxes and aporias of human rights, Critical Perspectives on Human Rights is a key reference text for students and scholars in this important area of inquiry.
Introduction, Birgit Schippers Part I: Troubling Human Rights 1 Language and Freedom in Critiques of Human Rights, Rachel Wahl 2 Human Rights Trouble? Judith Butler and the Performative Refusal of Human Rights, Ben Golder 3 Rethinking the Human in Human Rights, Moya Lloyd 4 Towards a Posthumanist Conception of Human Rights, Birgit Schippers Part II: Practicing Human Rights 5 Practice, Justification and Queer: Human Rights meets Sexuality and Gender Diversity, Anthony J. Langlois 6 Human Dignity and Human Rights: Lessons from the Fight for Marriage Equality in the United States, Karen Zivi 7 The Political Movement for a Human Right to the City, Joe Hoover 8 Peasant Activism and the Ambiguity of Human Rights, Robin Dunford Part III: The Geopolitics of Human Rights 9 Eurocentric and Third-World Histories of Human Rights: Critique, Recognition and Dialogue, Jose-Manuel Barreto 10 Critical Theory, Sociology, and Human Rights, Mark Frezzo 11 Borders of Human Rights: Territorial Sovereignty and the Precarious Personhood of Migrants, Ayten Gundogdu Afterword: Situating Human Rights in the Postpolitical Landscape, Upendra Baxi Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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