Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age

• Main Author: Chowdhury, Kanishka (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Human Rights Interventions
• Subjects: International relations.; Globalization.; Human rights.; Sociology.; International Relations Theory.; Human Rights.; Knowledge - Discourse.

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...