Cultural Studies of Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Articulations
Redaktion: Erni, John Nguyet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cultural Studies of Rights forges an alliance between cultural studies and human rights scholarships, to help us better understand the changing and complex political context that continuously shapes contemporary violence.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317979333
• Artikelnr.: 41067091

Autorenporträt

John Nguyet Erni is Head and Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His books include Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of "Curing" AIDS, Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology (with Ackbar Abbas), and Asian Media Studies: The Politics of Subjectivities (with Siew Keng Chua). He has also published widely on critical public health, Chinese consumption of transnational culture, queer media, and youth popular consumption in Hong Kong and Asia. In 2005, he completed a Master of Laws specializing in human rights.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Reframing cultural studies: Human rights as a site of legal-cultural struggles John Nguyet Erni
Lingnan University
Hong Kong 2. Honing a critical cultural study of human rights Rosemary J. Coombe
York University
Canada 3. Immanent law and the juridical: Toward a liberative ontology of human rights Hans Skott-Myhre & Donato Tarulli
Brock University
Canada 4. Human rights as an ethic of truth: Pragmatic dilemmas and discursive interventions Leonard C. Hawes
University of Utah
USA 5. Exiled writers
human rights
and social advocacy movements in Australia: A critical fugal analysis Ruth Skilbeck
University of Technology
Sydney
Australia 6. The abuses of literacy: Amazon Kindle and the right to read Ted Striphas
Indiana University
USA 7. The postcolonial predicament of gay rights in the Queen Boat affair Julian Award
Concordia University
Canada