Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently
excluded from politics? We are living in world in which human
rights are violated on an unprecedented scale, often by the states
who claim to protect them. According to Giorgio Agamben, this is no
coincidence: he argues that human rights are actually a sign of our
growing powerlessness and political alienation. Taking Agamben's
critique as their starting point, Lechte and Newman explore
questions of statelessness, exclusion, the violence of
securitisation and the visual representation of refugees and
illegal migrants in the media. They propose a radical rethinking of
human rights: as disengaged from humanitarianism, biopolitics,
sovereignty and the society of the spectacle; as becoming genuinely
political.
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