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.
Cuprins
One: Human Rights against the Maelstroms
Two: 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
Despre autor
Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of
A Revolution in Fragments (2019),
Anthropology and Law (2017), and
Surrendering to Utopia (Stanford, 2009), among other works.
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