Human rights discourse in the post-9/11 age / Kanishka Chowdhury.
This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film. The author points out some of the contradictions that emer...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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| Series: | Human rights interventions.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: reading rights discourse in a transnational economy
- Historicizing rights discourse post-9/11
- Workers' rights, exploitation, adn the transactional moment
- Gender rights and the politics of empowerment
- "Tomorrow there will be more of us": rights discourse, the state, and toxic capitalism in Indra Sinha's "Animal's People"
- Refugees' rights: capital, Oscar Martinez's "The Beast", Gianfranco Rosi's "Fuocoammare", and the "problem" of the surplus population
- Conclusion.