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The aporia of rights : explorations in citizenship in the era of human rights / edited by Anna Yeatman and Peg Birmingham.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with the politics of human rights."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction Anna Yeatman
- Chapter 2 "Perplexities of the Rights of Man": Arendt on the Aporias of Human Rights / Ayten Gündogdu
- Chapter 3 The Multivocity of Human Rights Discourse / Jeff Malpas
- Chapter 4 Neither Here Nor There: The Conceptual Paradoxes of Immigrant and Asylee Resistance / Robert W. Glover
- Chapter 5 Acts of Emancipation: Marx, Bauer, and "The Jewish Question" / Charles Barbour
- Chapter 6 Must democratic rights serve the rights-bearer? The right to vote of people with severe cognitive impairments / Ludvig Beckman
- Chapter 7 Performing Human Rights: the meaning of rights in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights / Anthony J. Langlois
- Chapter 8 The politics of indigenous human rights in the era of settler state citizenship: Legacies of the nexus between sovereignty, human rights and citizenship / Danielle Celermajer
- Chapter 9 Revolutionary Declarations: The State of Right and the Right of Opposition / Peg Birmingham
- Chapter 10 Humanising Militarism: Amnesty International and the Tactical Polyvalence of Human Rights Discourses / Jessica Whyte
- Chapter 11 Rival Doctrines - the politics of human rights / Anna Yeatman
- Chapter 12 Afterword / Peg Birmingham
- Consolidated Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781623568764
- 1623568765
- 9781501319105
- 1501319108
- 9781681191942
- 1681191946
- 9781501302282
- 1501302280
- 9781623565602
- 162356560X
- OCLC:
- 886540057
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