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Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age

HMN RGHTS INTRVNTNS: HUMAN RIGHTS DISCRSE POST-9/11 AGE

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<P>This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film. The author points out some of the contradictions that emerge in contemporary rights language when material relations are not sufficiently perceived or acknowledged, and he directs attention to the role of some rights talk in maintaining and managing the accelerated global project of capital accumulation. Even as rights discourse points to injustices—for example, injustices related to labor, gender, the citizen's relationship to the state, or the movement of refugees—it can simultaneously maintain systems of oppression. By constructing subjects who are aligned to the interests of capital, by emphasizing individual <Q>empowerment,</Q> and/or by containing social disenchantment, it reinforces the process of wealth accumulation, supports neoliberal ideologies, and diminishes the possibility of real transformation through collective struggle. The book proposes an alternative logic for comprehending rights language; offers a radical re-envisioning of future possibilities of human rights discourse; and focuses specifically on the language of human rights and puts into crisis such liberatory categories as freedom, fairness, empowerment, justice, etc.</P>

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Front Cover.
Other Frontmatter.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Acknowledgements.
Contents.
1: Introduction: Reading Rights Discourse in a Transnational Economy.
2: Historicizing Rights Discourse Post-9/11.
3: Workers&#x0027; Rights, Exploitation, and the Transactional Moment.
4: Gender Rights and the Politics of Empowerment.
5: &#x201C;Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us&#x201D;: Rights Discourse, the State, and Toxic Capitalism in Indra Sinha&#x0027;s Animal&#x0027;s People.
6: Refugees&#x0027; Rights: Capital, &#x00D3;scar Mart&#x00ED;nez&#x0027;s The Beast, Gianfranco Rosi&#x0027;s Fuocoammare, and the &#x201C;Problem&#x201D; of the Surplus Population.
7: Conclusion.
Index.

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