From the Margins of Globalization

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights
Herausgeber: Gordon, Neve

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In From the Margins of Globalization, Neve Gordon assembles work from leading intellectuals and activists in the field of human rights. Each essay in this volume discusses a community or issue left adrift in the wake of global capitalism. Whether it's Mohammad Khatami writing on the United Nations and its role after 9/11 or Ytienne Balibar thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism this book comprises a core challenge to human rights by focusing on what lies beyond the margins of a world in constant flux.

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Produktdetails

• Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780739108789
• ISBN-10: 0739108786
• Artikelnr.: 13942845

Autorenporträt

Neve Gordon is Lecturer, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Human Rights as Being-Marginal in the World Chapter 2 Islam
Iran
and the Dialogue of Civilizations Chapter 3 Racism
Sexism
Universalism(s) Chapter 4 Of Despots and Banks: A Human Rights Response to Africa's Debt Crisis Chapter 5 Socio-Economic Rights
Radical Democracy and Power: South Africa as a Case Study Chapter 6 New Formulas
Old Sins: Human Rights Abuses Against Migrant Workers
Asylum Seekers
and Refugees in the Americas Chapter 7 At the Border of Rights: Migration
Sex-Work
and Trafficking Chapter 8 The Right to Madness: From Personal to Political - Psychiatry and Human Rights Chapter 9 Em-bodying Shadows: Tracing the Contours of Women's Rights to Health Chapter 10 Human Rights and Sacred Cows: Framing Violence
Disappearing Struggles