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 very
sovereign 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 in the face of a sovereign state of exception that has
become global. Taking Agamben's critique as their starting point,
Lechte and Newman reveal the paradoxes central to the politics of
human rights by exploring questions of statelessness, exclusion,
the violence of security 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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