The work of global justice : human rights as practices / Fuyuki Kurasawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurasawa, Fuyuki.

Series:

Cambridge cultural social studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Human rights have been generally understood as juridical products, organizational outcomes or abstract principles that are realized through formal means such as passing laws, creating institutions or formulating ideals. In this book, Fuyuki Kurasawa argues that we must reverse this 'top-down' focus by examining how groups and persons struggling against global injustices construct and enact human rights through five transnational forms of ethico-political practice: bearing witness, forgiveness, foresight, aid and solidarity. From these, he develops a new perspective highlighting the difficult social labour that constitutes the substance of what global justice is and ought to be, thereby reframing the terms of debates about human rights and providing the outlines of a critical cosmopolitanism centred around emancipatory struggles for an alternative globalization.

Contents:

Introduction: Theorizing the work of global justice 1

1 A message in a bottle: on bearing witness 23

2 The healing of wounds: on forgiveness 56

3 Cautionary tales: on foresight 94

4 The stranger's keeper: on aid 126

5 Cosmopolitanism from below: on solidarity 157

Conclusion: Enacting a critical cosmopolitanism 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.

ISBN:

9780521857246

0521857244

9780521673914

0521673917

OCLC:

149011718