For decades, framing an issue as a ‘human rights’ issue carried
certain power and effect in politics and international relations,
one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist
political forces. Ford explores the recent impact of populist
politics on the universalist human rights project, in particular,
how scholars have framed and responded to this challenge. Ford
offers a provocation to the human rights movement. Rather than
‘what have populists done to human rights?’, it asks ‘how did
we, the human rights movement, do this to ourselves?’ How did
fundamental protections for all become so easily scapegoated as
‘us and them,’ as claims of small, often foreign, minorities?
Did human rights lose some vital connection to ordinary people’s
interests, their value taken as obvious and self-explanatory?
Looking forward, the book asks how – in a post-truth ‘fake
news’ world – we might reimagine human rights as underpinning
human flourishing as well as important constraints on public and
private concentrations of power. Traversing relevant scholarly
literature on the future of human rights and zooming out to look at
wider patterns of political and diplomatic discourse, this book
will speak to policymakers, diplomats, journalists, and human
rights advocates – and all interested in the crisis of liberal
democracies.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Jolyon Ford
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
144 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-231754-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-231754-X |
Barcode: |
9781032317540 |
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