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OverviewThe Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with the politics of human rights. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Peg Birmingham , Anna YeatmanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781623569778ISBN 10: 162356977 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 20 November 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContributors Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction Anna Yeatman Chapter 2 “Perplexities of the Rights of Man”: Arendt on the Aporias of Human Rights Ayten Gündogdu Chapter 3 The Multivocity of Human Rights Discourse Jeff Malpas Chapter 4 Neither Here Nor There: The Conceptual Paradoxes of Immigrant and Asylee Resistance Robert W. Glover Chapter 5 Acts of Emancipation: Marx, Bauer, and “The Jewish Question” Charles Barbour Chapter 6 Must democratic rights serve the rights-bearer? The right to vote of people with severe cognitive impairments Ludvig Beckman Chapter 7 Performing Human Rights: the meaning of rights in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Anthony J. Langlois Chapter 8 The politics of indigenous human rights in the era of settler state citizenship: Legacies of the nexus between sovereignty, human rights and citizenship Danielle Celermajer Chapter 9 Revolutionary Declarations: The State of Right and the Right of Opposition Peg Birmingham Chapter 10 Humanising Militarism: Amnesty International and the Tactical Polyvalence of Human Rights Discourses Jessica Whyte Chapter 11 Rival Doctrines – the politics of human rights Anna Yeatman Chapter 12 Afterword Peg Birmingham Consolidated Bibliography IndexReviewsTackling head on one of the most challenging, perplexing, and yet essential political relationships of our time, this collection is a must-read for those of us--political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, historians, lawyers--who work with, around and even against the aporetic connection between human rights and citizenship. Chris McCorkindale, University of Strathclyde Law School and co-editor, Hannah Arendt and the Law Tackling head on one of the most challenging, perplexing, and yet essential political relationships of our time, this collection is a must-read for those of us--political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, historians, lawyers--who work with, around and even against the aporetic connection between human rights and citizenship. Christopher McCorkindale Author InformationAuthor Website: http://las.depaul.edu/philosophy/People/Faculty/Peg_Birmingham.aspAnna Yeatman is a Professorial Fellow in the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. She is a political and social theorist who also has practical experience in public policy. Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, USA. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (2006) and co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (1995). Tab Content 6Author Website: http://las.depaul.edu/philosophy/People/Faculty/Peg_Birmingham.aspCountries AvailableAll regions |
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