Critical perspectives on human rights / edited by Birgit Schippers.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: English Publication details: London : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., 2018Description: 252 pages; 24 cmISBN: 9781786600158 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects | Human rights -- Political aspectsDDC classification: 323 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Textual Documents | Institute of Development Studies Kolkata | Gifted Book | 323 S3369c (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | G4693 |
Gifted by Abhijit Guha.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"Provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary issues on rights, ethics and global justice"-- Provided by publisher.
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