Silencing human rights
Subtitle: critical engagements with a contested project
By: edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Robbie Shilliam ; epilogue by Upendra Baxi.
Contributors: Bhambra, Gurminder K., 1974-; Shilliam, Robbie, 1969-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780230222762
Subjects: Human rights; Civil rights; Ethnic conflict; Race discrimination
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "silence" and human rights / Gurminder K. Bhambra and Robbie Shilliam; title: How oppression thrives where truth is not allowed a voice. The Spanish polemic about the American Indians / M. J. Rodriguez-Salgado; title: No more no less. What slaves thought about their humanity / Siba N. Grovogui; title: The rites of dispossession : medieval and modern / Naeem Inayatullah and David L. Blaney; title: "That all men are created equal" : "rights talk" and exclusion in North America / Roland Marden; title: Is the right to sovereignty a human right? The idea of sovereign freedom and the Jewish state / Joan Cocks; title: A continuity of silence in Serbia : from the irrelevance of human rights to collective crime, and beyond / Nenad Dimitrijevic; title: Population exchanges of the Balkans and Asia Minor at the fin de siecle. The imposition of political subjectivities in the modern world order / Renk Ozdemir; title: Silencing to protect : the debate over women's rights in France and Canada / Leah Bassel; title: All too meaningful silences : the European Court of Human Rights' disappointing case law on racial discrimination / Marie-Benedicte Dembour; title: Silencing the sovereignty of the poor in Haiti / Tim di Muzio; title: Rights beyond the urban-rural divide : South Africa's Landless People's Movement and the creation of a landless subjectivity / Amanda Alexander; title: Conclusion: human rights in contemporary global perspective / Robbie Shilliam and Gurminder K. Bhambra; title: Epilogue: whom may we speak for, with, and after? Re-silencing human rights / Upendra Baxi.