1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights
Introduction
Jesse Tomalty and Kerri Woods
Section 1: Approaching the Philosophy of Human Rights
1. Why Human Rights?
Rowan Cruft
2. The Duties Associated with Human Rights
Stephanie Collins
3. Legal Human Rights, as Distinct from Moral Ones
Gopal Sreenivasan
4. A Practice-Based Approach to Human Rights Philosophy
Cristina Lafont
5. Anchoring Human Rights: Practice without Foundations
Vittorio Bufacchi
6. The Lure of Minimalism
Adam Etinson
Section 2: Grounds of Human Rights
7. The Grounds of Human Rights: Interests
Peter Jones
8. Dignity as Conferred Status: An Alternative Approach to Human Rights
Suzy Killmister
9. Human Rights and Equality
Adina Preda
10. Capabilities and Human Rights
Jos Philips
11. On The Nature of Human Rights Protection against Vulnerability
Costanza Porro and Christine Straehle
12. Human Rights and African Communitarian Values
Thaddeus Metz
13. Human Rights and the Kantian Tradition
Marcus Düwell
14. Confucian Resources for Human Rights
May Sim
15. An Islamic Foundation for Human Rights
Fatema Amijee
Section 3: Critical Perspectives
16. Human Rights, Human Reason, Human History
Simon Hope
17. Combative Decoloniality and Human Rights
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
18. A Feminist Human Rights Proposal
Diana Tietjens Meyers
19. Pragmatist Challenges
Joe Hoover
20. Human Rights and Speciesism
Alasdair Cochrane
Section 4: Contemporary Human Rights Issues
21. Is there a human right against discrimination?
22. Human Rights and Democracy
David Reidy
23. Internet and Communications
Merten Reglitz
24. Poverty and Human Rights: Theoretical Disputes and Practical Consequences
Elizabeth Kahn
25. Health, Human Rights, and Trade-Offs
Michael Da Silva
26. The Human Right to Work
Jesse Tomalty
27. Social Access and Inclusion
Kimberley Brownlee and David Jenkins
28. On the Human Right to Found a Family
Luara Ferracioli
29. Human rights, Environment, Nature
Marcel Wissenburg and Mihnea Tănăsescu
Section 5: Human Rights of Groups
30. Cultural Rights
Andrew Shorten
31. Decolonizing Women’s Human Rights: Reflections from Ecoterritorial Feminist
Movements in Latin America
Serene Khader and Pedro Monque
32. Are Indigenous Rights Human Rights? A qualified defense
Kerstin Reibold
33. Children’s Human Rights
Anca Gheaus
34. LGBT+/SOGIE Human Rights
Kerri Woods
35. The Human Rights of Refugees in an Age of Deterrence
Serena Parekh
Biography
Jesse Tomalty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research focuses on normative and conceptual questions about global justice and human rights. She has published articles on a range of themes including socio-economic human rights, global poverty, the nature of human rights, and the ethics of immigration.
Kerri Woods is Associate Professor of Political Theory and Deputy Head of the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. She has research interests in human rights theory and feminist political theory. Her publications include Human Rights (2014) and Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability (2010).
“Not the usual suspects with the usual arguments, this exceptionally international array of authors includes leading theorists, but also a richly diverse set of fresh voices escaping tired dichotomies (and tired trichotomies!). This Handbook features path-breaking dialogues with conventional positions as well as provocative proposals, for the benefit of students and academics interested in an updated and expanded discourse on the Philosophy of Human Rights.”
-- Henry Shue, author of Basic Rights (2020) and The Pivotal Generation (2021).
