Title: Silencing human rights : critical engagements with a contested project /
Authors: Bhambra, Gurminder K., 1974-; Shilliam, Robbie, 1969-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Human rights.; Civil rights.; Ethnic conflict; Race discrimination
Abstract: This volume argues that there exists an intimate relationship between the descriptor 'silence' and the political effect of human rights. It suggests that it is not possible to speak descriptively of 'the silencing of human rights' without also confronting the culpability of the human rights project within these silences.
Contents: "Silence" and human rights / Gurminder K. Bhambra and Robbie Shilliam -- Pt. I. Founding silences: The question of humanity : 'How oppression thrives where truth is not allowed a voice' : the Spanish polemic about the American Indians / M.J. Rodríguez-Salgado. No more, no less : what slaves thought about their humanity / Siba N. Grovogui -- Pt. II. Founding silences: The practices of exclusion : The rites of dispossession: medieval and modern / Naeem Inayatullah and David L. Blaney. 'That all men are created equal': 'rights talk' and exclusion in North America / Roland Marden -- Pt. III. Institutional silences: Citizenship and exclusion : Is the right to sovereignty a human right?: the idea of sovereign freedom and the Jewish state / Joan Cocks. A continuity of silence in Serbia: from the irrelevance of human rights to collective crime, and beyond / Nenad Dimitrijevic -- Pt. IV. Institutional silences: Citizenship and 'inclusion' : Population exchanges of the Balkans and Asia Minor at the fin de siècle: the imposition of political subjectivities in the modern world order / Renk Ozdemir. Silencing to protect: the debate over women's rights in France and Canada / Leah Bassel. In the name of the rule of the law: the European Court of Human Rights's silencing of racism / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour -- Pt. V. Contested silences: The rights of the poor : Silencing the sovereignty of the poor in Haiti / Tim Di Muzio. Rights beyond the urban-rural divide: South Africa's landless people's movement and the creation of a landless subjectivity / Amanda Alexander -- Conclusion: Human rights in contemporary global perspective / Robbie Shilliam and Gurminder K. Bhambra -- Epilogue: Whom may we speak for, with, and after? : re-silencing human rights / Upendra Baxi.