Human rights and radical social transformation : futurity, alterity, power / Kathryn McNeilly.
2018
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Human rights and radical social transformation : futurity, alterity, power / Kathryn McNeilly.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
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K3240 .M3883 2018
Course Lists
Human Rights and Inequality (Young) by Katherine Young (Spring 2025)
ISBN
9781138690219 hardback
113869021X hardback
9781134990597 adobe reader
1134990596 adobe reader
9781134990665 electronic publication
1134990669 electronic publication
9781134990733 mobipocket
1134990731 mobipocket
113869021X hardback
9781134990597 adobe reader
1134990596 adobe reader
9781134990665 electronic publication
1134990669 electronic publication
9781134990733 mobipocket
1134990731 mobipocket
Description
vii, 166 pages ; 24 cm
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(OCoLC)975270172
Summary
Against the recent backdrop of sociopolitical crisis, radical thinking and activism to challenge the oppressive operation of power has increased. Such thinkers and activists have aimed for radical social transformation in the sense of challenging dominant ways of viewing the world, including the neoliberal illusion of improving the welfare of all while advancing the interests of only some. However, a question mark has remained over the utility of human rights in this activity and the capability of rights to challenge, as opposed to reinforce, discourses such as liberalism, capitalism, internationalism and statism. It is at this point that the present work aims to intervene. Drawing upon critical legal theory, radical democratic thinking and feminist perspectives, Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation seeks to reassess the radical possibilities for human rights and explore how rights may be re-engaged as a tool to facilitate radical social change via the concept of ‘human rights to come’. This idea proposes a reconceptualisation of human rights in theory and practice which foregrounds human rights as inherently futural and capable of sustaining a critical relation to power and alterity in radical politics. -- Provided by publisher.
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"A GlassHouse book"--Front cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
viii
1.
Introduction
1
Notes
11
2.
excesses of human rights: beginning to think of a futural future for human rights
15
Introduction
15
Mainstream history of human rights: liberalism, capitalism, internationalism and statism
16
Human rights as existing in excess: parallel histories
20
Human rights as driven by excess and a futural future: human rights to come
23
Conclusion: the future of the history of human rights
28
Notes
29
3.
(Re)Doing rights: the performativity of human rights to come
34
Introduction
34
From rights as objects to rights as a performative doing
35
performativity of human rights to come: a `doing in futurity'
39
present and the future in the performative
40
Futurity, performativity and rights
41
Human rights to come as redoing human rights
44
Performative reiteration
45
Reiterating rights
46
Conclusion
50
Notes
51
4.
Universality as universalisation: the universality of human rights to come
55
Introduction
55
Engagements with the universality of human rights
56
For a futural conception of the universal: universality as universalisation
60
Universalisation and the radical: the universal content and subject of human rights
64
universal content of human rights
65
universal subject of human rights
68
Conclusion
71
Notes
72
5.
Beyond consensus: the agon ism of human rights to come
76
Introduction
76
Consensus and the politics of human rights
77
From consensus to agonism: human rights to come as an agonistic politics of rights
82
Human rights to come as towards agonistic democracy to come
89
Conclusion
91
Notes
92
6.
Rethinking paradoxical sovereignty: the ontology of human rights to come
96
Introduction
96
paradoxical sovereign subject of human rights
97
Rethinking ontology: vulnerability as a source of critical engagement with alterity and power
101
Reapproaching paradoxical sovereignty: vulnerability as a source for resistant action
107
Conclusion
111
Notes
113
7.
On translation: the practice of human rights to come
116
Introduction
116
practice of human rights and translation
117
Cultural translation and a disruptive and futural practice of human rights to come
122
For a holistic practice of human rights to come: the role of the translator
127
Conclusion
132
Notes
133
8.
Rereading feminist engagements with rights via human rights to come
135
Introduction
135
Rereading the history of feminist engagements with human rights
136
Stage One: formal equality (1948--1970s)
137
Stages Two and three: deconstruction of law (1980s--1990s); reconstruction, reconceptualisation and reinterpretation (1990s-present)
138
Stage Four: reflection, re-evaluation and reassessment (2000s-present)
141
new future for feminist engagements with human rights: human rights to come and the right to gender flourishing
144
Stage Five? Feminist engagements and human rights to come
144
contemporary competing universal: the right to gender flourishing
145
Conclusion
151
Notes
151
9.
Conclusion as non-conclusion
156
possibilities of non-conclusion
158
challenges of non-conclusion
160
future in the futural
161
Notes
162
Index
163