Bhambra, Gurminder K., 1974- and Shilliam, Robbie, eds. (2009) Silencing human rights : critical engagements with a contested project. Palgrave Macmillan, New York . ISBN 9780230222762

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Abstract

Silences are not simply absences, but are a constitutive feature of discourse and practice. Silences inform issues of voice, representation, and responsibility along with associated problems of inclusion, exclusion, and participation. This volume frames the contested nature of the human rights project within these concerns arguing that there exists an intimate relationship between the descriptor 'silence' and the political effect of human rights. This volume suggests that it is not possible to speak descriptively of 'the silencing of human rights' without also confronting the culpability of the human rights project within these silences. Where canonical discourses of human rights fail to acknowledge the silencing of rights claims, associated with various social meanings and identities in their founding episodes, they are condemned to perpetuate them, albeit in new forms. Rather than judging the human rights project as either emancipatory or as domination this volume focuses upon its essentially contested nature.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JC Political theory K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Human rights, Civil rights, Ethnic conflict
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:	New York
ISBN:	9780230222762
Editor:	Bhambra, Gurminder K., 1974- and Shilliam, Robbie
Date:	2009
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/37646

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