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Silencing human rights : critical engagements with a contested project
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Bhambra, Gurminder K., 1974- and Shilliam, Robbie, eds. (2009) Silencing human rights : critical engagements with a contested project. New York : Palgrave Macmillan. 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 | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JC Political theory K Law [LC] > K Law (General) |
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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 | ||||
Official Date: | 2009 | ||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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