Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2023
96 pages
978-1-83998-449-5 (ISBN)
Description
Virtuous institutions, such as human rights ones, have been neglected by securitization theory's focus on the national state apparatus as the key driver of security politics. This book challenges this assumption, showing the ways institutional human rights, deemed the most progressive of rights, have been complicit in rendering the body vulnerable. While the book principally focuses on the treatment of the veiled woman, it also considers wider cases involving torture: the ultimate removal of control over one's body and biggest transgression of human rights' supposed foundational commitment to bodily integrity.
Reviews / Votes
This is a seminal, ground-breaking, and compelling study that is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and college/university library collections. -- Midwest The entanglements between human rights, the politics of security and embodiment are the key preoccupations of this book. It is a must-read for all who want to think more clearly about the conditionality of human rights in the world around us. With characteristic rigour and clarity, Edmunds's intervention is timely and combative. - John Solomos, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick Against the burgeoning literature on human rights, Aneira Edmunds offers a unique sociological perspective on rights, vulnerability and the body. In the process, she brings into sharp focus security, feminism, governance and post-colonialism, while exposing the "virtuous" reputation of the judicial apparatus. An indispensable guide to feminist debates about human rights and covered Muslim women. - Bryan S. Turner, Australian Catholic UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-83998-449-5 (9781839984495)
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Aneira J. Edmunds
Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment
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12/2023
Anthem Press
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Person
Aneira J. Edmunds is an authority on human rights. She tackles controversial and topical issues relating in particular to human rights' control over the woman's body and the limitations of 'virtuous' institutions such as the ICC and the ECtHR.
Content
Acknowledgements; Introduction: An Outline; 1. Sociology, Human Rights and the Body; 2. Securing Undesirable Bodies; 3. Virtuous Institutions and the Securitisation of Women's Bodies; 4. The Conditionality of Human Rights; Conclusion: Desecuritising Human Rights; Bibliography; Index
