Governing (through) rights / Bal Sokhi-Bulley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sokhi-Bulley, Bal, author.

Series:

Human rights law in perspective ; Volume 21.

Human rights law in perspective ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse that is itself managed through governing tactics and techniques - hence governing (through) rights. Part I examines the 'problem of government' (through) rights. The opening chapter describes governmentality as a methodology that is then used to interrogate the relationship between rights and governance in three contexts: the international, regional and local. How rights regulate certain identities and conceptions of what is good governance is examined through the case study of non-state actors, specifically the NGO, in the international setting; through a case study of rights agencies, and the role of experts, indicators and the rights-based approach in the European Union or regional setting; and, in terms of the local, the challenge that the blossoming language of responsibility and community poses to rights in the name of less government (Big Society) is problematised. In Part II, on resisting government (through) rights, the book also asks what counter-conducts are possible using rights language (questioning rioting as resistance), and whether counter-conduct can be read as an ethos of the political, rights-bearing subject and as a new ethical right. Thus, the book bridges a divide between critical theory (ie Foucauldian understandings of power as governmentality) and human rights law

Contents:

Introduction

Governing (through) agencies: the EU and rights in EUrope

Governing (through) non-governmental actors: the global human rights architecture and the international NGO

Resisting rights with responsibility

Counter-conduct as right and as ethics

Conclusion : a permanent state of dissatisfaction.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781509903849

1509903844

9781509903832

1509903836

9781509903825

1509903828

OCLC:

945804267