Silencing Human Rights
Critical Engagements with a Contested Project
Published on 27. November 2008
Book
Hardback
XII, 294 pages
978-0-230-22276-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents a range of topical investigations into the human rights field as well as providing an original and provocative investigation of some of the topic through the theoretical lens of 'silence'.
Reviews / Votes
Renk Ozdemir's chapter has won the 2009 Robert and Jessie Cox prize awarded to the best graduate paper of critical inquiry in International Relations.
'Silencing Human Rights is a very thought-provoking book and should be taken seriously.' - Sally Ramage, The Criminal Lawyer
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Persons
AMANDA ALEXANDER is a doctoral student in African history at Columbia University, USA and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
LEAH BASSEL is Lecturer in Sociology at City University, London, UK
UPENDRA BAXI is Professor of Law in Development at the University of Warwick, UK
GURMINDER K. BHAMBRA is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK
DAVID L. BLANEY is Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, Minnesota, USA
JOAN COCKS is Professor of Politics and Member of the Program in Critical Social Thought, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA
MARIE-BÉNÉDICTE DEMBOUR is Professor of Law and Anthropology in the Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, UK
NENDAD DIMITRIJEVIC is Associate Professor of Constitutional and Political Theory at the Political Science Department of the Central European University, Budapest
SIBA GROVOGUI is Professor of International Relations Theory and Political Theory, John Hopkins University, New York, USA
NAEEM INAYATULLAH is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, New York, USA
ROLAND MARDEN was previously a lecturer in the American Studies department at the University of Sussex, UK, and is now Manager of Research at the national book charity, Booktrust
TIM DI MUZIO is Lecturer in Political Science at Trent University, Canada
RENK OZDEMIR is a DPhil candidate in theDepartment of International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK
M. J. RODRÍGUEZ-SALGADO is Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
ROBBIE SHILLIAM is Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Content
Introduction: 'Silence' and Human Rights; G. K. Bhambra and R. Shilliam PART I: FOUNDING SILENCES: THE QUESTION OF HUMANITY 'How oppression thrives where truth is not allowed a voice.' The Spanish Polemic about the American Indians; M. J. Rodríguez -Salgado No More no Less: What Slaves thought about their Humanity; S. N. Grovogui PART II: FOUNDING SILENCES: THE PRACTICES OF EXCLUSION The Rites of Dispossession: Medieval and Modern; N. Inayatullah and D. L. Blaney 'That all men are created equal': 'Rights talk' and Exclusion in North America; R. Marden PART III: INSTITUTIONAL SILENCES: CITIZENSHIP AND EXCLUSION Is the Right to Sovereignty a Human Right? The Idea of Sovereign Freedom and the Jewish State; J. Cocks A Continuity of Silence in Serbia: From the Irrelevance of Human Rights to Collective Crime, and Beyond; N. Dimitrijevic PART IV: INSTITUTIONAL SILENCES: CITIZENSHIP AND 'INCLUSION' Population Exchanges of the Balkans and Asia Minor at the Fin de Siècle. The Imposition of Political Subjectivities in the Modern World Order; R. Ozdemir* Silencing to Protect: The Debate over Women's Rights in France and Canada; L.Bassel All too Meaningful Silences: The European Court of Human Rights' Disappointing Case Law on Racial Discrimination; M-B. Dembour PART V: CONTESTED SILENCES: THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR Silencing the Sovereignty of the Poor in Haiti ; T. di Muzio Rights Beyond the Urban-rural Divide: South Africa's Landless People's Movement and the Creation of a Landless Subjectivity; A. Alexander Conclusion: Human Rights in Contemporary Global Perspective; R. Shilliam and G. K. Bhambra Epilogue: Whom may we speak for, with, and after? Re-silencing Human Rights; U. Baxi Endnotes Bibliography
*Winner of the International Studies Association's Robert and Jessie Cox Award 2009