The aporia of rights
Subtitle: explorations in citizenship in the era of human rights
By: edited by Anna Yeatman and Peg Birmingham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781623569778
Subjects: Human rights; Citizenship; PHILOSOPHY / Political; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship
Description: "The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with the politics of human rights"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Contributors AcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Introduction Anna Yeatman Chapter 2 "Perplexities of the Rights of Man": Arendt on the Aporias of Human Rights Ayten Gündogdu  Chapter 3 The Multivocity of Human Rights Discourse Jeff MalpasChapter 4 Neither Here Nor There: The Conceptual Paradoxes of Immigrant and Asylee Resistance Robert W. GloverChapter 5 Acts of Emancipation: Marx, Bauer, and "The Jewish Question" Charles BarbourChapter 6 Must democratic rights serve the rights-bearer? The right to vote of people with severe cognitive impairments Ludvig BeckmanChapter 7 Performing Human Rights: the meaning of rights in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Anthony J. LangloisChapter 8 The politics of indigenous human rights in the era of settler state citizenship: Legacies of the nexus between sovereignty, human rights and citizenship Danielle CelermajerChapter 9 Revolutionary Declarations: The State of Right and the Right of Opposition Peg BirminghamChapter 10 Humanising Militarism: Amnesty International and the Tactical Polyvalence of Human Rights Discourses Jessica WhyteChapter 11 Rival Doctrines - the politics of human rights Anna YeatmanChapter 12 Afterword Peg BirminghamConsolidated BibliographyIndex.