Does the apparent victory, universality and ubiquity of the idea of
rights indicate that such rights have transcended all conflicts of
interests and moved beyond the presumption that it is the clash of
ideas that drives culture? Or has the rhetorical triumph of rights
not been replicated in reality? The contributors to this book
answer these questions in the context of an increasing wealth gap
between the metropolitan elites and the rest, a chasm in income and
chances between the rich and the poor, and walls which divide the
comfortable middle classes from the 'underclass'. Why do these
inequalities persist in our supposed human rights-abiding
societies? In seeking to address the foundations, genealogies,
meaning and impact of rights, this book captures some of the
energy, breadth, power and paradoxes that make deployment of the
language of human rights such an essential but changeable part of
so many of our contemporary discourses.
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