From the Margins of Globalization

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights
Herausgeber: Gordon, Neve

• Gebundenes 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 Étienne 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.

Produktdetails

• Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 687g
• ISBN-13: 9780739108772
• ISBN-10: 0739108778
• Artikelnr.: 21557149

Autorenporträt

Edited by Neve Gordon - Contributions by Étienne Balibar; Andreas E. Feldman; Ran Greenstein; Alan Keenan; Mohammad Khatami; Audrey Macklin; Ruchama Marton; Mulela Margaret Munalula; Vasuki Nesiah; Helena Olea and Alicia Yamin

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