A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice.
Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo—Mark Goodale offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal.
Goodale’s proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the ‘practice of human rights.’ Rather than a priori claims to universality, he calls for a working theory of human rights defined by ’translocality, ‘ a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity.
This book will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree—for many different reasons—that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.
Inhoudsopgave
One: Human Rights against the MaelstromsTwo: Human Rights, Capitalism, and the Ends of Economic Life
Three: Remaking Sovereignty in the Image of Human Rights
Four: Human Rights beyond the Rule of Law
Five: Decolonizing Human Rights
Six: Human Rights Otherwise
Seven: The Subjects of Human Rights
Eight: Human Rights in a G20 World
Over de auteur
Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. He is the author ofA Revolution in Fragments (2019),
Anthropology and Law (2017), and
Surrendering to Utopia (Stanford, 2009), among other works.
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