Lara Montesinos Coleman

Struggles for the Human

Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Global and Insurgent Legalities
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025566
• ISBN-10: 1478025565
• Artikelnr.: 67981751

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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