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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Reading Rights Discourse in a Transnational Economy
• 2. Historicizing Rights Discourse Post-9/11
• 3. Workers' Rights, Exploitation, and the Transactional Moment
• 4. Gender Rights and the Politics of Empowerment
• 5. "Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us": Rights Discourse, the State, and Toxic Capitalism in Indra Sinha's Animal's People
• 6. Refugees' Rights: Capital, Óscar Martínez's The Beast, Gianfranco Rosi's Fuocoammare, and the "Problem" of the Surplus Population
• 7. Conclusion.