What's wrong with rights? : social movements and legal imaginations / Radha D'Souza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Souza, Radha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Social justice.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, [2018]

Summary:

A critique of liberal rights exposing the paradox between 'good' capitalism and the reality of its actions.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

Part I: The Rights Resurgence

1. Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations

2. What's Wrong With Rights?

3. Rights in the 'Epoch of Imperialism'

Part II: Re-scripting Rights

4. International Election Monitoring: From 'Will of the People' to the 'Right to Free and Fair Elections'

5. The Rights of Victims: From Authorisation to Accountability

6. Intangible Property Rights: The IMF as Underwriters

7. Rights in International Neoliberal Risk-governance Regime

Part III: Concluding Reflections

8. Rights and Social Movements in the 'Epoch of Imperialism'

Postscript

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78371-726-2

OCLC:

1019649596