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Governing (Through) Rights (Hardcover)
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Governing (Through) Rights (Hardcover)
Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective
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Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the
central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of
governmentality. They are a regulating discourse that is itself
managed through governing tactics and techniques - hence governing
(through) rights. Part I examines the 'problem of government'
(through) rights. The opening chapter describes governmentality as
a methodology that is then used to interrogate the relationship
between rights and governance in three contexts: the international,
regional and local. How rights regulate certain identities and
conceptions of what is good governance is examined through the case
study of non-state actors, specifically the NGO, in the
international setting; through a case study of rights agencies, and
the role of experts, indicators and the rights-based approach in
the European Union or regional setting; and, in terms of the local,
the challenge that the blossoming language of responsibility and
community poses to rights in the name of less government (Big
Society) is problematised. In Part II, on resisting government
(through) rights, the book also asks what counter-conducts are
possible using rights language (questioning rioting as resistance),
and whether counter-conduct can be read as an ethos of the
political, rights-bearing subject and as a new ethical right. Thus,
the book bridges a divide between critical theory (ie Foucauldian
understandings of power as governmentality) and human rights law.
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