The State of Human Rights
Historical Genealogies, Political Controversies, and Cultural Imaginaries
Published on 24. September 2020
266 pages
978-3-8253-7934-6 (ISBN)
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Since their proclamation in the 1948 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights', human rights have become a dominant language in controversies over ethics around the globe and a normative basis for concepts of a just society and ideas of the public good. This concerns a variety of issues, from slavery and warfare through fights over indigenous rights and disputes over preserving the heritage of minorities to current conflicts over asylum law and the status of refugees. What is the state of human rights both within and beyond the boundaries of the nation state? How can we take into account the significance of cultural texts in envisioning and critically reflecting the 'state of human rights'?
This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives from literary and cultural studies, theater, photography, history, political science, philosophy, sociology, and law, looking at historical controversies on human rights as well as at their current political, social, and imagined state(s).
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Kerstin Schmidt
The State of Human Rights
Historical Genealogies, Political Controversies, and Cultural Imaginaries
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Content
- Cover
- Titel
- Imprint
- Table of Contents
- Kerstin Schmidt - Human Rights at the Border: A Political Introduction
- Saskia Sassen - Foreword: Beyond People? A Human Rights Project that Engages Systems
- Heiner Bielefeldt - Safeguarding Preconditions of Meaningful Interaction: A Critical Justification of Universal Rights
- Micheline Ishay - Human Rights in the Age of Populism
- Benjamin Gregg - The Human Rights State: Advancing Justice Through Political Imagination
- Yael Schacher - Exclusions and Exceptions: The History of Asylum in the U.S
- Florian Tatschner - "We Seek Our Basic, God-Given Rights as Human Beings": Embodiment, Hope, and Utopia in the Delano Grape Strike
- Peter T. Wendel - The U.S. Constitution and the 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights': A Comparative Approach
- Robin Leick - The Fundamental Rights Regime of the European Union: Historical Developments and Future Challenges
- Sonali Perera - Between Revolution and Revisionism: Human Rights and Antigone's Ghosts
- Crystal Parikh - "I Haven't Come Back. I've Come Here": American Innocence and the Refugee Child
- Katharina Matuschek - "People in Prisons Are Still People": Reclaiming Humanity Through Autobiographical Prison Writing
- Suncica Klaas - A Crime Against Humanity: Prefiguring Human Rights in Solomon Northup's 'Twelve Years A Slave'
- Gerd Hurm - 'The Family of Man' (1848/1955): Feminist Foremothers, Women's Rights, and Human Rights
- Jane Lydon - The Universal Language of Photography? UNESCO's 'Human Rights Exhibition' in Australia, 1951
- Greta Olson with Janna Wessels - Imag(in)ing Human Rights: Deindividualizing, Victimizing, and Universalizing Images of Refugees in the United States and Germany
- Notes on Contributors
- Backcover
