The aporia of rights : explorations in citizenship in the era of human rights /

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Imprint:	New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Human rights. Citizenship. Citizenship. Human rights.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12645162

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Other authors / contributors:	Yeatman, Anna. Birmingham, Peg, 1955-
ISBN:	9781623565602 162356560X 9781501302282 1501302280 9781623568764 1623568765 9781623569778 162356977X
Language / Script:	Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). Print version record.
Summary:	"The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with the politics of human rights"--
Other form:	Print version: Aporia of rights 9781623569778

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction Anna Yeatman
Chapter 2 "Perplexities of the Rights of Man": Arendt on the Aporias of Human Rights / Ayten Gündogdu
Chapter 3 The Multivocity of Human Rights Discourse / Jeff Malpas
Chapter 4 Neither Here Nor There: The Conceptual Paradoxes of Immigrant and Asylee Resistance / Robert W. Glover
Chapter 5 Acts of Emancipation: Marx, Bauer, and "The Jewish Question" / Charles Barbour
Chapter 6 Must democratic rights serve the rights-bearer? The right to vote of people with severe cognitive impairments / Ludvig Beckman
Chapter 7 Performing Human Rights: the meaning of rights in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights / Anthony J. Langlois
Chapter 8 The politics of indigenous human rights in the era of settler state citizenship: Legacies of the nexus between sovereignty, human rights and citizenship / Danielle Celermajer
Chapter 9 Revolutionary Declarations: The State of Right and the Right of Opposition / Peg Birmingham
Chapter 10 Humanising Militarism: Amnesty International and the Tactical Polyvalence of Human Rights Discourses / Jessica Whyte
Chapter 11 Rival Doctrines
the politics of human rights / Anna Yeatman
Chapter 12 Afterword / Peg Birmingham
Consolidated Bibliography
Index.

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