Nick Stevenson

Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance.There are currently two predominant myths circulating about freedom. The first is that in a global age growing numbers of citizens are less concerned with freedom than they are with security.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780367871437
• ISBN-10: 0367871432
• Artikelnr.: 58439636

Autorenporträt

Nick Stevenson is Reader in Cultural Sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Human Rights and Freedom
1. Human Rights, Freedom and Humanity
2. Human Rights and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Questions of Human
Dignity and Cultural Identity.
3. The 'Making' and 'Doing' of Global Civil Society: E.P.Thompson and
Cosmopolitanism
4. The Human Right to Schooling (or Education) in the Age of Global
Neoliberalism
5.Jazz as Cultural Modernity: Consumerism, Neoliberalism and Cosmopolitan
Freedom
6.Human Rights and Documentary Cinema: A Democratic Pedagogic Practice in
the Time of Globalisation
7.Human Rights, Post-Capitalism and the Right to be Human: The Rise of the
Commons
Conclusion: The Human Right to be Human
Bibliography