The human right to dominate / Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perugini, Nicola, author.

Gordon, Neve, 1965- lat, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in culture & politics.

Oxford studies in culture and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the turn of the new millennium, a new phenomenon has emerged: conservatives who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture began to embrace human rights in order to advance their own political goals. This book accounts for how human rights—generally conceived as a counterhegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices—are being deployed to subjugate the weak and legitimize domination. Using Israel/Palestine as its main case study, this book describes the establishment of settler NGOs that appropriate human rights to dispossess indigenous Palestinians and military think tanks that rationalize lethal violence by invoking rights discourse. It is not only nationalists and security agencies that deploy human rights in this way, however. The book outlines the increasing convergences between liberal human rights NGOs, militaries, settler organizations, and extreme right nationalists, showing how radically different political actors champion the dissemination of human rights while mirroring each other’s political strategies. Indeed, Perugini and Gordon demonstrate the multifaceted role this discourse is currently playing in the international arena: on the one hand, human rights have become the lingua franca of global moral speak, while on the other they have become a tool for enhancing domination.

Contents:

Introduction: Human rights as domination

The paradox of human rights

The threat of human rights

The human right to kill

The human right to colonize

Conclusion: What remains of human rights?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2015).

ISBN:

0-19-936503-2

0-19-936504-0