Add to ORKGAbstract Human rights are politicised and cannot realistically be said to exist only to protect the weak from abuse, being co-opted as an instrument through which the politics of power is advanced. Despite human rights becoming increasingly widespread, the omnipresence of human rights rhetoric has not been very clear, and the meaning of the language of human rights has become confused and contested. ?Everyone should know why human rights are important, that we do need little human rights just now, and that literature does have a capacity to minister to that need,? says Joseph Slaughter in his book, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form and International Law (2007). It is important to understand the nuances of human rights. It ...
The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as ...
When is it time for human rights? When do human rights begin? To ask this is to ask how human rights...
In a variety of disciplines, there exists a consensus that human rights are individual claim rights ...
The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking human rights seriously has never b...
There is an enormous range of contemporary and rapidly expanding literature on human rightsthat perv...
The idea of human rights, although often discussed as if its meaning were self-evident, is, in reali...
Book synopsis: Does the apparent victory, universality and ubiquity of the idea of rights indicate t...
The discursive character of human rights prevents a precise summary of historical origin, rationale,...
This article addresses how non-experts understand the general notion of human rights. After a discus...
Traditional theories of human rights regard human rights to be equivalent to universal moral rights....
How should we understand the cultural politics that has surrounded the development of international ...
Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. A...
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature. In this paper, I engage with ...
Human rights have come to represent some of the highest ideals of humanity. In Samuel Moyn’s Not Eno...
Why do we have human rights? What ought to be the function of such rights in the global order, and t...
The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as ...
When is it time for human rights? When do human rights begin? To ask this is to ask how human rights...
In a variety of disciplines, there exists a consensus that human rights are individual claim rights ...
The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking human rights seriously has never b...
There is an enormous range of contemporary and rapidly expanding literature on human rightsthat perv...
The idea of human rights, although often discussed as if its meaning were self-evident, is, in reali...
Book synopsis: Does the apparent victory, universality and ubiquity of the idea of rights indicate t...
The discursive character of human rights prevents a precise summary of historical origin, rationale,...
This article addresses how non-experts understand the general notion of human rights. After a discus...
Traditional theories of human rights regard human rights to be equivalent to universal moral rights....
How should we understand the cultural politics that has surrounded the development of international ...
Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. A...
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature. In this paper, I engage with ...
Human rights have come to represent some of the highest ideals of humanity. In Samuel Moyn’s Not Eno...
Why do we have human rights? What ought to be the function of such rights in the global order, and t...
The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as ...
When is it time for human rights? When do human rights begin? To ask this is to ask how human rights...
In a variety of disciplines, there exists a consensus that human rights are individual claim rights ...