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Author : Crystal Parikh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108481329
This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.
Author : Conor Gearty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107495776
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has been achieved and at what cost, in terms of expected or produced unexpected side-effects. The authors pass judgment about the consistency, efficacy and success of human rights law (set against the standards of the field itself or other external goals). Written by world-class academics, this Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of human rights law.
Author : Crystal Parikh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108665195
Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently generated innovative and timely perspectives on the history, meaning, and scope of human rights. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature introduces this new and exciting field of study in the humanities. It explores the historical and institutional contexts, theoretical concepts, genres, and methods that literature and human rights share. Equally accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researches, this Companion emphasizes both the literary and interdisciplinary dimensions of human rights and the humanities.
Author : Crystal Parikh
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1452954674
The legal texts and aspirational ideals of human rights are usually understood and applied in a global context with little bearing on the legal discourse, domestic political struggles, or social justice concerns within the United States. In Writing Human Rights, Crystal Parikh uses the international human rights regime to read works by contemporary American writers of color—Toni Morrison, Chang-rae Lee, Ana Castillo, Aimee Phan, and others—to explore the conditions under which new norms, more capacious formulations of rights, and alternative kinds of political communities emerge. Parikh contends that unlike humanitarianism, which views its objects as victims, human rights provide avenues for the creation of political subjects. Pairing the ethical deliberations in such works as Beloved and A Gesture Life with human rights texts like the United Nations Convention Against Torture, she considers why principles articulated as rights in international conventions and treaties—such as the right to self-determination or the right to family—are too often disregarded at home. Human rights concepts instead provide writers of color with a deeply meaningful method for political and moral imagining in their literature. Affiliating transnational works of American literature with decolonization, socialist, and other political struggles in the global south, this book illuminates a human rights critique of idealized American rights and freedoms that have been globalized in the twenty-first century. In the absence of domestic human rights enforcement, these literatures provide a considerable repository for those ways of life and subjects of rights made otherwise impossible in the present antidemocratic moment.
Author : John Parham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108498531
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
Author : Andreas von Arnauld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 939 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108751172
The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new' human rights. Whereas legal theory tends to neglect the development of concrete individual rights, monographs on 'new' rights often deal with structural matters only in passing and the issue of 'new' human rights has received only cursory attention in literature. By bringing together a large number of emergent human rights, analysed by renowned human rights experts from around the world, and combining the analyses with theoretical approaches, this book fills this lacuna. The comprehensive and dialectic approach, which enables insights from individual rights to overarching theory and vice versa, will ensure knowledge growth for generalists and specialists alike. The volume goes beyond a purely legal analysis by observing the contestation, rhetorics, the struggle for recognition of 'new' human rights, thus speaking to human rights professionals beyond the legal sphere.
Author : Bruce Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107086205
This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.
Author : Laura Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316512649
Highlights the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and challenges the notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.
Author : Vera J. Camden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108477488
Combining literature and psychoanalysis, this collection foregrounds the work of literary creators as foundational to psychoanalysis.
Author : Clare Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107087821
Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.