Human Rights as Political Imaginary

• Main Author: Julián López, José (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social justice.; Human rights.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociology.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Human Rights.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Sociological Theory.

In this book, López proposes the 'political imaginary' model as a tool to better understand what human rights are in practice, and what they might, or might not, be able to achieve. Human rights are conceptualised as assemblages of relatively stable, but not unchanging, historically situa...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Human Rights as Political Imaginary
• 3. Sociological Foundations for Human Rights?
• 4. Humanizing the Citizen
• 5. Beyond Human Rights Law Naïveté
• 6. Conclusion. .