The Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power

The Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power

The Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power

The Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power

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Overview

Using struggles around rights in the so-called Third World as their conceptual point of departure, the contributions to this book problematize human rights as both potentially emancipatory and laden with the dynamics of power that governs us as rightful or rightless subjects in the Global South as well as the North. This book was originally published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138292147
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/21/2017
Series: ThirdWorlds
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Louiza Odysseos is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex and Deputy Director of the Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre. She is the author of The Subject of Coexistence: Otherness in International Relations (2007) and numerous articles on ethics, rights and resistance. She has also co-edited Gendering the International (2002), The International Political Theory of Carl Schmitt (2007) and Heidegger and the Global Age (2017). She is currently researching a monograph entitled The Reign of Rights in Global Politics.

Anna Selmeczi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her current research focuses on knowledge dynamics in urban social movements, particularly the pedagogical aspects of grassroots political practices.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The power of human rights/the human rights of power: an introduction, The question concerning human rights and human rightlessness: disposability and struggle in the Bhopal gas disaster, Struggles, over rights: humanism, ethical dispossession and resistance, Who is the subject of neoliberal rights? Governmentality, subjectification and the letter of the law, The human right to housing and community empowerment: home occupation, eviction defence and community land trusts, Producing the subjects of reconciliation: the making of Sierra Leoneans as victims and perpetrators of past human rights violations, Disciplining the human rights of immigrants: market veridiction and the echoes of eugenics in contemporary EU immigration policies, Border politics, right to life and acts of dissensus: voices from the Lampedusa Borderland, The Endriago subject and the dislocation of state attribution in human rights discourse: the case of Mexican asylum claims in Canada, Between learning and schooling: the politics of human rights monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review, Power, privilege and rights: how the powerful and powerless create a vernacular of rights, Human rights and power amid protest and change in the Arab world, The power effects of human rights reforms in Turkey: enhanced surveillance and depoliticisation, Promoting health or securing the market? The right to health and intellectual property between radical contestation and accommodation, Appropriation and the dualism of human rights: understanding the contradictory impact of gender norms in Nigeria,

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