The divided world : human rights and its violence / Randall Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Randall, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Political violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, Randall Williams shows how the concept of human rights-often taken for granted as a force for good in the world-corresponds directly with U.S. imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more recently, M. Jacqui Alexander and China Miéville, Williams insists on a reckoning of human rights with the violence of colonial modernity. Despite the emphasis on international human rights since World War II, Williams notes that the discourse of human rights has consistently

Contents:

Introduction: The international division of humanity

Conscience denied : Amnesty International and the antirevolution of the 1960's

Who claims modernity? : the international frame of sexual recognition

A duty to intervene : on the cinematic constitution of subjects for empire in Hotel Rwanda and Cache

Expiation for the dispossessed : truth commissions, testimonios, and tyrannicide

Combat theory : anti-imperialist analytics since Fanon

Coda : the transition from dumb to smart power.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4629-9

0-8166-7350-0

OCLC:

646816265