1st Edition

Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism

By June Edmunds Copyright 2017
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

Cosmopolitanism, as an intellectual and political project, has failed. The portrayal of human rights, especially European, as evidence of cosmopolitanism in practice is misguided. Cosmopolitan theorists point to the rise of claims-making to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) among Europe’s Muslims to protect their right to religious freedom, mainly concerning the hijab , as evidence of... Read more

CHAPTER 1  INTRODUCTION Chapter 2  HUMAN RIGHTS AS A ‘COSMOPOLITAN MOMENT’  cHAPTER 3  POST-NATIONAL THEORY,



CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS  cHAPTER 4  THE RISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM  CHAPTER 5  LITIGATING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 



CHAPTER 6  EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND THE MYTH OF COSMOPOLITANISM  CHAPTER 7  FROM COSMOPOLITANISM TO



SECURITIZATION  CHAPTER 8  CONCLUSION

Biography

June Edmunds is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK and an affiliated Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.