Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) - Softcover

Buch 8 von 18: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis

Brown, Anne; Brown, M. Anne

 
9780719063930: Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719063930 ISBN 13: 9780719063930
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anne Brown is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Queensland where she is part of an interdisciplinary team working on emerging issues in conflict resolution

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This book, newly available in paperback, argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architecture of rights, it casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of suffering. Seen in this context, the predominant Western models of rights generate a substantial but also problematic and not always emancipatory array of practices. These models are far from answering the questions about the nature of political community that are raised by the systemic infliction of suffering. Rather than a simple message from 'us' to 'them', then, rights promotion is a long and difficult conversation about the relationship between political organisations and suffering.

Three case studies are explored - the Tiananmen Square massacre, East Timor's violent modern history and the circumstances of indigenous Australians. The purpose of these discussions is not to elaborate on a new theory of rights, but to work towards rights practices that are more responsive to the spectrum of injury that we inflict and endure.

The book is a valuable and innovative contribution to rights debates for students of international politics, political theory, and conflict resolution, as well as for those engaged in the pursuit of human rights.

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This book, newly available in paperback, argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architecture of rights, it casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of suffering. Seen in this context, the predominant Western models of rights generate a substantial but also problematic and not always emancipatory array of practices. These models are far from answering the questions about the nature of political community that are raised by the systemic infliction of suffering. Rather than a simple message from 'us' to 'them', then, rights promotion is a long and difficult conversation about the relationship between political organisations and suffering.Three case studies are explored - the Tiananmen Square massacre, East Timor's violent modern history and the circumstances of indigenous Australians. The purpose of these discussions is not to elaborate on a new theory of rights, but to work towards rights practices that are more responsive to the spectrum of injury that we inflict and endure.The book is a valuable and innovative contribution to rights debates for students of international politics, political theory, and conflict resolution, as well as for those engaged in the pursuit of human rights.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719063930
ISBN 13 
9780719063930
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
242
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