Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation: Futurity, Alterity, Power / Edition 1

by Kathryn McNeilly

Overview

Drawing upon critical legal theory, radical democratic thinking and feminist perspectives, Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation seeks to reassess the radical possibilities for human rights and explore how rights may be re-engaged as a tool to facilitate radical social change via the concept of ‘human rights to come’.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138690219
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathryn McNeilly is a Lecturer in Law at Queen's University Belfast.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. The Excesses of Human Rights: Beginning to Think A Futural Future for Human Rights
3. (Re)Doing Rights: The Performativity of Human Rights To Come
4. Universality as Universalisation: The Universality of Human Rights To Come
5. Beyond Consensus: The Agonism of Human Rights To Come
6. Rethinking Paradoxical Sovereignty: The Ontology of Human Rights To Come
7. On Translation: The Practice of Human Rights To Come
8. Re-reading Feminist Engagements with Rights via Human Rights To Come

Conclusion as Non-Conclusion
The possibilities of non-conclusion
The challenges of non-conclusion
A future in the futural