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.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: Bringing the Subject of Human Rights into Focus
—Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre
1. The Relational Self As the Subject of Human Rights
—Jennifer Nedelsky
2. The Misbegotten Monad: Anthropology, Human Rights, Belonging
—Mark Goodale
3. ’Are Women Animals?’: The Rise and Rise of (Animal) Rights
—Joanna Bourke
4. Indigenous Peoples As the Subject of Human Rights
—Danielle Celermajer and Michael Dodson
5. ’Escaped’: Gendered Precarity and Human Rights Recognition
—Wendy S. Hesford
6. Training Subjects for Human Rights
—Danielle Celermajer
7. Who Deserves Inalienable Rights?: The Subjectivity of Violent State Officials and the Implications for Human Rights Protection
—Rachel Wahl
8. Human Rights As Therapy: The Healing Paradigms of Transitional Justice
—Ronald Niezen
9. Cinematic Aesthetics and the Subjects of Human Rights: On Eliane Caffé’s Era o Hotel Cambridge
—Andrew C. Rajca
10. Human Rights As Spiritual Exercises
—Alexandre Lefebvre
11. The Child Subject of Human Rights
—Linde Lindkvist
12. The Secular Subject of Human Rights
—Jenna Reinbold
13. The Subject of Human Rights: An Interview with Samuel Moyn
—Samuel Moyn and Alexandre Lefebvre
Om författaren
Danielle Celermajer is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney.
Alexandre Lefebvre is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney.
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