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Law and Cultural Studies - A Critical Rearticulation of Human Rights (Paperback)
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Law and Cultural Studies - A Critical Rearticulation of Human Rights (Paperback)
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New and unremitting violence linked to state, inter-state, and
private actors has precipitated a renewal of social movements, many
of which act in concert with human rights ethos and legal
conceptions. Yet, cultural studies has so far had little engagement
or institutional connection with these movements. How can cultural
studies as a progressive discipline think with, and make space for,
rights-inflected legal and humanitarian practices? This book
considers the ways in which cultural humanism and the critical
approach to rights, and more broadly between culture and law, can
be brought together to open a new intellectual space to allow
cultural studies to better engage with the current challenges
presented by social and political struggles worldwide. It lays out
the central theses essential for constructing a critical view of
human rights, and then advances a distinctive critical model of
analysis that incorporates insights of postcolonial legal theorists
and jurists from the Global South and important cultural theorists
from the North, while rethinking law, rights, and social movements
as something constituted by multiple legal modernities. Through
case studies covering questions relating to sovereignty,
citizenship, refugee displacement, human rights defenders, and
gender and sexual rights, Law and Cultural Studies develops a means
by which the practice of cultural studies can be reinvigorated
around the legal spaces, institutions, and movements tied to human
rights struggles. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural
and media studies, critical legal studies, political theory,
postcolonial studies, and human rights.
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