Critical Perspectives on Human Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Schippers, Birgit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786600165
• Artikelnr.: 56830962

Autorenporträt

Birgit Schippers is Senior Lecturer in Politics at St Mary's University College Belfast.

Inhaltsangabe

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, José-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 Gündogdu
Afterword: Situating Human Rights in the Postpolitical Landscape, Upendra
Baxi
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index