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Against the recent backdrop of sociopolitical crisis, radical
thinking and activism to challenge the oppressive operation of
power has increased. Such thinkers and activists have aimed for
radical social transformation in the sense of challenging dominant
ways of viewing the world, including the neoliberal illusion of
improving the welfare of all while advancing the interests of only
some. However, a question mark has remained over the utility of
human rights in this activity and the capability of rights to
challenge, as opposed to reinforce, discourses such as liberalism,
capitalism, internationalism and statism. It is at this point that
the present work aims to intervene. Drawing upon critical legal
theory, radical democratic thinking and feminist perspectives,
Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation seeks to reassess
the radical possibilities for human rights and explore how rights
may be re-engaged as a tool to facilitate radical social change via
the concept of 'human rights to come'. This idea proposes a
reconceptualisation of human rights in theory and practice which
foregrounds human rights as inherently futural and capable of
sustaining a critical relation to power and alterity in radical
politics.
Against the recent backdrop of sociopolitical crisis, radical
thinking and activism to challenge the oppressive operation of
power has increased. Such thinkers and activists have aimed for
radical social transformation in the sense of challenging dominant
ways of viewing the world, including the neoliberal illusion of
improving the welfare of all while advancing the interests of only
some. However, a question mark has remained over the utility of
human rights in this activity and the capability of rights to
challenge, as opposed to reinforce, discourses such as liberalism,
capitalism, internationalism and statism. It is at this point that
the present work aims to intervene. Drawing upon critical legal
theory, radical democratic thinking and feminist perspectives,
Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation seeks to reassess
the radical possibilities for human rights and explore how rights
may be re-engaged as a tool to facilitate radical social change via
the concept of 'human rights to come'. This idea proposes a
reconceptualisation of human rights in theory and practice which
foregrounds human rights as inherently futural and capable of
sustaining a critical relation to power and alterity in radical
politics.
This collection brings together a range of international
contributors to stimulate discussions on time and international
human rights law, a topic that has been given little attention to
date. The book explores how time and its diverse forms can be
understood to operate on, and in, this area of law; how time
manifests in the theory and practice of human rights law
internationally; and how specific areas of human rights can be
understood via temporal analyses. A range of temporal ideas and
their connection to this area of law are investigated. These
include collective memory, ideas of past, present and future,
emergency time, the times of environmental change, linearity and
non-linearity, multiplicitous time, and the connections between
time and space or materiality. Rather than a purely abstract or
theoretical endeavour, this dedicated attention to the times and
temporalities of international human rights law will assist in
better understanding this law, its development, and its operation
in the present. What emerges from the collection is a future - or,
more precisely, futures - for time as a vehicle of analysis for
those working within human rights law internationally.
This collection brings together a range of international
contributors to stimulate discussions on time and international
human rights law, a topic that has been given little attention to
date. The book explores how time and its diverse forms can be
understood to operate on, and in, this area of law; how time
manifests in the theory and practice of human rights law
internationally; and how specific areas of human rights can be
understood via temporal analyses. A range of temporal ideas and
their connection to this area of law are investigated. These
include collective memory, ideas of past, present and future,
emergency time, the times of environmental change, linearity and
non-linearity, multiplicitous time, and the connections between
time and space or materiality. Rather than a purely abstract or
theoretical endeavour, this dedicated attention to the times and
temporalities of international human rights law will assist in
better understanding this law, its development, and its operation
in the present. What emerges from the collection is a future - or,
more precisely, futures - for time as a vehicle of analysis for
those working within human rights law internationally.
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