| 书目名称 | Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age | | 编辑 | Kanishka Chowdhury | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Proposes an alternative logic for comprehending rights language.Offers a radical re-envisioning of future possibilities of human rights discourse.Focuses specifically on the language of human rights a | | 丛书名称 | Human Rights Interventions | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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. | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | human rights; postcolonial studies; political theory; cultural studies; discourse; postcolonial/world lit | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13872-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-13872-1Series ISSN 2946-5117 Series E-ISSN 2946-5125 | | issn_series | 2946-5117 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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