The subject of human rights / edited by Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Celermajer, Danielle, editor.

Lefebvre, Alexandre, 1979- editor.

Series:

Stanford studies in human rights.

Stanford Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Human rights--Philosophy.

Subject (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the "human" part of "human rights." Drawing on the finest thinking in political theory, cultural studies, history, law, anthropology, and literary studies, this volume examines how human rights—as discourse, law, and practice—shape how we understand humanity and human beings. It asks how the humanness that the human rights idea seeks to protect and promote is experienced. The essays in this volume consider how human rights norms and practices affect the way we relate to ourselves, to other people, and to the nonhuman world. They investigate what kinds of institutions and actors are subjected to human rights and are charged with respecting their demands and realizing their aspirations. And they explore how human rights shape and even create the very subjects they seek to protect. Through critical reflection on these issues, The Subject of Human Rights suggests ways in which we might reimagine the relationship between human rights and subjectivity with a view to benefiting human rights and subjects alike.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Bringing the Subject of Human Rights into Focus

PART I: WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS?

1 The Relational Self As the Subject of Human Rights

2 The Misbegotten Monad: Anthropology, Human Rights, Belonging

3 “Are Women Animals?”: The Rise and Rise of (Animal) Rights

4 Indigenous Peoples As the Subject of Human Rights

5 “Escaped”: Gendered Precarity and Human Rights Recognition

PART II: WHO IS SUBJECT TO HUMAN RIGHTS?

6 Training Subjects for Human Rights

7 Who Deserves Inalienable Rights?: Th e Subjectivity of Violent State Officials and the Implications for Human Rights Protection

8 Human Rights As Therapy: The Healing Paradigms of Transitional Justice

9 Cinematic Aesthetics and the Subjects of Human Rights: On Eliane Caffé’s Era o Hotel Cambridge

PART III: HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS MAKE SUBJECTS?

10 Human Rights As Spiritual Exercises

11 The Child Subject of Human Rights

12 The Secular Subject of Human Rights

13 The Subject of Human Rights: An Interview with Samuel Moyn

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503613720

1503613720

OCLC:

1145087787