1st Edition
Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network Books beyond Borders
By Lena Khor
Copyright 2013
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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In her innovative study of human rights discourse, Lena Khor takes up the prevailing concern by scholars who charge that the globalization of human rights discourse is becoming yet another form of cultural, legal, and political imperialism imposed from above by an international human rights regime based in the Global North. To counter these charges, she argues for a paradigmatic shift away from... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Human Rights Discourse and its Global Network; Chapter 2 Human Rights Survivors as Multitude; Chapter 3 Human Rights Heroes/Humanitarian Saviors as Empire and Counter-Empire; Chapter 4 Literal and Literary Bystanders as Multitude and the Common; Chapter 101 Conclusion The Global-National and Human-Personal Paradoxes of Human Rights Discourse;
Biography
Lena Khor is Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, where she teaches courses on postcolonial studies, globalization, and human rights. Her research interests include human rights and humanitarian discourses, globalization processes, and contemporary World Anglophone literature.
’... breaks new ground in thinking about human rights through discourse and network theory, rather than as a matter of philosophy, history, or law. It is, in that way, likely to be a unique and important contribution to the study of human rights in the humanities. At the same time, the way it uses human rights case studies is likely to reflect back upon discourse theory and literary and cultural studies, resuscitating viable notions of agency and liberatory network power in fields that have been dominated by negative visions of human capacity and moral action.’ James Dawes, Macalester College, author of Evil Men
