Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies
|
Buy Now
Imagining Human Rights (Hardcover, Digital original)
Loot Price: R4,183
Discovery Miles 41 830
|
|
Imagining Human Rights (Hardcover, Digital original)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Donate to Against Period Poverty
Total price: R4,203
Discovery Miles: 42 030
|
Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of
justice at local and global scales although the number of their
violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the
surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward
discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs,
but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering
interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human
rights. By that the contributors mean not merely subject to
imagination, open to interpretation or far too abstract, but also
formative of a social imaginary with emphatic identifications and
shared values. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they
explore critical ways of engaging in rigorous interdisciplinary
conversations about the origin and language of human rights,
personal dignity, redistributive justice, and international
solidarity. Together, they show how and why a careful examination
of the intersection between disciplinary investigations is
essential for imagining human rights at large. Examples range from
the legitimacy of land ownership rights and the inadequacy of human
faculty to make sense of mass violence in visual representation to
the stewardship of human rights promoters and the genealogy of
human rights.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.