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Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age

Af: Kanishka Chowdhury Engelsk Hardback

Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age

Af: Kanishka Chowdhury Engelsk Hardback
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This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film. The author points out some of the contradictions that emerge in contemporary rights language when material relations are not sufficiently perceived or acknowledged, and he directs attention to the role of some rights talk in maintaining and managing the accelerated global project of capital accumulation. Even as rights discourse points to injustices-for example, injustices related to labor, gender, the citizen''s relationship to the state, or the movement of refugees-it can simultaneously maintain systems of oppression. By constructing subjects who are aligned to the interests of capital, by emphasizing individual "empowerment," and/or by containing social disenchantment, it reinforces the process of wealth accumulation, supports neoliberal ideologies, and diminishes the possibility of real transformation through collective struggle.
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This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film. The author points out some of the contradictions that emerge in contemporary rights language when material relations are not sufficiently perceived or acknowledged, and he directs attention to the role of some rights talk in maintaining and managing the accelerated global project of capital accumulation. Even as rights discourse points to injustices-for example, injustices related to labor, gender, the citizen''s relationship to the state, or the movement of refugees-it can simultaneously maintain systems of oppression. By constructing subjects who are aligned to the interests of capital, by emphasizing individual "empowerment," and/or by containing social disenchantment, it reinforces the process of wealth accumulation, supports neoliberal ideologies, and diminishes the possibility of real transformation through collective struggle.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 235
ISBN-13: 9783030138714
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 3030138712
Kategori: Menneske- & borgerrettigheder
Udg. Dato: 29 mar 2019
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 148mm
Højde: 210mm
Forlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato: 29 mar 2019
Forfatter(e): Kanishka Chowdhury
Forfatter(e) Kanishka Chowdhury

Kategori Menneske- & borgerrettigheder

ISBN-13 9783030138714

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 235

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 148mm

Højde 210mm

Udg. Dato 29 mar 2019

Oplagsdato 29 mar 2019

Forlag Springer Nature Switzerland AG