Human rights discourse in the post-9/11 age / Kanishka Chowdhury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chowdhury, Kanishka, 1963- author.

Series:

Human rights interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xv, 235 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Contents:

Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading Rights Discourse in a Transnational Economy; Human Rights Discourse in Our Time; Constructing Human Rights Discourse; Human Rights Discourse and Wealth Accumulation; Overview of the Argument; Works Cited; Chapter 2 Historicizing Rights Discourse Post-9/11; Introduction; Decolonization and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); Fetishizing the Politics of Development in the Declarations of the 1990s; The Post-9/11 Language of Rights: A Critical Consideration; Neoliberalism and Rights Discourse; Works Cited

Chapter 3 Workers' Rights, Exploitation, and the Transactional Moment introduction; Oppression and Exploitation: Some Differences; Marx's Analysis of the Injustice of Wage Labor; Unsettling the Morality of Rights and Regulations; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 4 Gender Rights and the Politics of Empowerment; Introduction; Empowerment and Neoliberalism; NGOs and the Construction of "Civil Society"; Microcredit: Empowerment and Debt; Nirantar, Gender Rights, and the Challenges of Transformative Work; Conclusion; Works Cited

Chapter 5 "Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us": Rights Discourse, the State, and Toxic Capitalism in Indra Sinha's Animal's People introduction; The State and the Struggle for Rights; Contextualizing Animal's People in Neoliberal Times; The Bhopal Disaster and Its Aftermath; Literature and the Language of Human Rights; "Hope Is Not a Fiction": Interrogating Rights Discourse in Indra Sinha's Animal's People; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 6 Refugees' Rights: Capital, Óscar Martínez's The Beast, Gianfranco Rosi's Fuocoammare, and the "Problem" of the Surplus Population; Introduction

Seeking Refuge in a Global Context Óscar Martínez's The Beast: Inciting Rage, Generating Respect; "Beyond the Reach of Political Discourse": Gianfranco Rosi's Fuocoammare; The "Problem" of the Surplus Population; Designating "Crisis," Fixing Borders; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 7 Conclusion; What Then, If Not Human Rights?; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030138714

3030138712

9783030138745

3030138747

OCLC:

1091644811