Human rights and the borders of suffering : the promotion of human rights in international politics
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書誌事項
Human rights and the borders of suffering : the promotion of human rights in international politics
（New approaches to conflict analysis）
Manchester University Press, c2009
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-220) and index
First published 2002 by Manchester University Press
First paperback edition 2009
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book, newly available in paperback, argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architecture of rights, it casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of suffering. Seen in this context, the predominant Western models of rights generate a substantial but also problematic and not always emancipatory array of practices. These models are far from answering the questions about the nature of political community that are raised by the systemic infliction of suffering. Rather than a simple message from 'us' to 'them', then, rights promotion is a long and difficult conversation about the relationship between political organisations and suffering.
Three case studies are explored - the Tiananmen Square massacre, East Timor's violent modern history and the circumstances of indigenous Australians. The purpose of these discussions is not to elaborate on a new theory of rights, but to work towards rights practices that are more responsive to the spectrum of injury that we inflict and endure.
The book is a valuable and innovative contribution to rights debates for students of international politics, political theory, and conflict resolution, as well as for those engaged in the pursuit of human rights.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15, Life on land -- .
目次
Preface
The Question of Human Rights
1. Opening up conceptions of rights
2. The contruction of human rights: dominant approaches
3. The pursuit of grounds
Case studies
4. China - the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989
5. East Timor
6. The status of indigenous Australians
7. Conclusion
Index -- .
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