Critical perspectives on human rights / 
edited by Birgit Schippers. 
 - London :  Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.,  2018. 
 - 252 pages;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Gifted by Abhijit Guha. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Language and freedom in critiques of human rights / Rachel Wahl -- Human rights trouble? Judith Butler and the performative refusal of human rights / Ben Golder -- Rethinking the human in human rights / Moya Lloyd -- Towards a posthumanist conception of human rights? / Birgit Schippers -- Practice, justification and queer : human rights meets sexuality and gender diversity / Anthony J. Langlois -- Human dignity and human rights : lessons from the fight for marriage equality in the United States / Karen Zivi -- The political movement for a human right to the city / Joe Hoover -- Peasant activism and the ambiguity of human rights / Robin Dunford -- Eurocentric and third-world histories of human rights : critique, recognition and dialogue / José-Manuel Barreto -- Critical theory, sociology, and human rights / Mark Frezzo -- Borders of human rights : territorial sovereignty and the precarious personhood of migrants / Ayten Gündoğdu -- Afterword : situating human rights in the postpolitical landscape / Upendra Baxi. 
<br/><br/> "Provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary issues on rights, ethics and global justice"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781786600158 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Human rights--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323  / S3369c