1st Edition
Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation Futurity, Alterity, Power
By Kathryn McNeilly
Copyright 2018
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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Against the recent backdrop of sociopolitical crisis, radical thinking and activism to challenge the oppressive operation of power has increased. Such thinkers and activists have aimed for radical social transformation in the sense of challenging dominant ways of viewing the world, including the neoliberal illusion of improving the welfare of all while advancing the interests of only some.... Read more
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- The Excesses of Human Rights: Beginning to Think A Futural Future for Human Rights
- (Re)Doing Rights: The Performativity of Human Rights To Come
- Universality as Universalisation: The Universality of Human Rights To Come
- Beyond Consensus: The Agonism of Human Rights To Come
- Rethinking Paradoxical Sovereignty: The Ontology of Human Rights To Come
- On Translation: The Practice of Human Rights To Come
- Re-reading Feminist Engagements with Rights via Human Rights To Come
Conclusion as Non-Conclusion
The possibilities of non-conclusion
The challenges of non-conclusion
A future in the futural
Biography
Kathryn McNeilly is a Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast.
