Overview
- Proposes an alternative logic for comprehending rights language
- Offers a radical re-envisioning of future possibilities of human rights discourse
- Focuses specifically on the language of human rights and puts into crisis such liberatory categories as freedom, fairness, empowerment, justice, etc
Part of the book series: Human Rights Interventions (HURIIN)
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“Ours is a historical moment characterized by crisis, the expressions of which include intensified violence in nearly all realms of social, political and economic life. In such dark times, it is tempting to turn to the language of human rights in an effort to locate a universal principle from which to ground a humane response. Chowdhury, in this masterful dialectical accountof human rights discourse, shows us the salutary aspects of the movements to defend human rights while very precisely locating the limits of such movements by situating human rights within a larger critique of capital, particularly the contemporary phase of neoliberal capital. Intervening in the scholarship on human rights as well as postcolonial literary studies, Chowdhury offers a timely and necessary corrective from a Left perspective.” (Bret Benjamin, Associate Professor, English, SUNY Albany, USA)
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Book Title: Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age
Authors: Kanishka Chowdhury
Series Title: Human Rights Interventions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13872-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13871-4Published: 29 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13872-1Published: 21 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-5117
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 235
Topics: International Relations Theory, Globalization, Human Rights, Knowledge - Discourse