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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Radha D'Souza (University of Westminster)Publisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Weight: 0.498kg ISBN: 9780745335407ISBN 10: 0745335403 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 20 January 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Part I: The Rights Resurgence 1. Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations 2. What’s Wrong With Rights? 3. Rights in the ‘Epoch of Imperialism’ Part II: Re-Scripting Rights 4. International Election Monitoring: From ‘Will of the People’ to the ‘Right to Free and Fair Elections’ 5. The Rights of Victims: From Authorisation to Accountability 6. Intangible Property Rights: The IMF as Underwriters 7. Rights in International Neoliberal Risk-Governance Regime Part III: Concluding Reflections 8. Rights and Social Movements in the ‘Epoch of Imperialism' Postscript Notes IndexReviews'This persuasively written book helps us, those involved with social movements, to trace the location of rights in capitalism and imperialism. An exploration not be missed anymore' -- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, University of Toronto, and co-author of Revolutionary Learning (Pluto, 2017) 'This book is a brilliant interrogation of the powerful hold the concept of rights has over social movements ... An absolute must read for everybody concerned with rights as a means for realising justice' -- Sunera Thobani, Asian Studies/Critical Race Feminist Studies, University of British Columbia 'The book many of us have been waiting for - brilliant, radical, and essential thinking for our times.' -- Aziz Choudry, Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production, McGill University 'The book many of us have been waiting for - brilliant, radical, and essential thinking for our times... A major contribution to critical theorizing and activist knowledge for struggles against capitalist exploitation, imperialism and fascism today' -- Aziz Choudry, Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production, McGill University 'The book many of us have been waiting for - brilliant, radical, and essential thinking for our times.' -- Aziz Choudry, Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production, McGill University 'A brilliant interrogation of the powerful hold the concept of rights has over social movements ... An absolute must read for everybody concerned with rights as a means for realising justice' -- Sunera Thobani, Asian Studies/Critical Race Feminist Studies, University of British Columbia 'This persuasively written book helps us to trace the location of rights in capitalism and imperialism' -- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, University of Toronto, and co-author of Revolutionary Learning (Pluto, 2017) 'Radha D'Souza is offering us a renewed analysis of rights, not `human' rights, she insists. It is the engagement, understanding, and the use of rights by the social movements that constitute and contextualize her layered analysis. This persuasively written book helps us, those involved with social movements, to trace the location of rights in capitalism and imperialism. An exploration not be missed anymore' -- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, University of Toronto, and co-author of Revolutionary Learning (Pluto, 2017) 'This book is a brilliant interrogation of the powerful hold the concept of rights has over social movements...An absolute must read for everybody concerned with rights as a means for realizing justice' -- Sunera Thobani, Asian Studies/Critical Race Feminist Studies, University of British Columbia 'The book many of us have been waiting for - brilliant, radical, and essential thinking for our times... A major contribution to critical theorising and activist knowledge for struggles against capitalist exploitation, imperialism and fascism today' -- Aziz Choudry, Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production, McGill University Author InformationRadha D'Souza teaches law at the University of Westminster, London. She is a social justice activist, a writer, critic and commentator. She is author of What's Wrong with Rights? (Pluto, 2018) and Interstate Disputes Over Krishna Waters (Orient Longman, 2006) and works with the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) in the UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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