Coleman Struggles for the Human

Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2768-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Global and Insurgent Legalities

Lara Montesinos Coleman presents an ethnographic exploration of contemporary human rights discourse that reorients debates on legality, ethics, and humanity within anticapitalist and decolonial struggles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coleman, Lara Montesinos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Human Rights in Struggle 1
1. Necroeconomics: Violence, Law, and Twenty-First-Century Plunder 27
2. Deadly Colonial Ethics: Development Policy-Speak and Corporate Responsibility 57
3. Privatizing Workers’ Rights: Social Partnership in a Neoliberal World 81
4. Elusive Justice: Capital, Impunity, and Counterlegality 105
5. From Pernicious Optimism to Radical Hope: Human Rights beyond Abstract Values 132
6. For an Insurgent Humanism 153
Conclusion. What Do We Make of Human Rights? Ten Points 170
Notes 175
Bibliography 213
Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Lara Montesinos Coleman is Reader in International Relations, Law, and Development and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and coeditor of Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent.