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Published in: HomeThe role of 'best examples' in human rightsIt is not only ideology that shapes human rights discourse but also reference points, 'best examples', cases that at...
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Published in: HomeIntervention - imperialism or human rights?
Are we caught between support for liberal intervention which often has disastrous, unintended, but often foreseeable...
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Published in: HomeThe European Court of Human Rights: would Marx have endorsed it?
The ECHR still struggles to reconcile effective rights with the deep structures of a market economy.
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Published in: HomeWho is the human in human rights?Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Human rights discourse relies on an abstracted human who is...
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Published in: HomeHuman rights and its inherent liberal relativism
Liberal relativism that celebrates civil and political rights is a neo-colonial construct which should be understood...
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Published in: HomeSexual subalterns, human rights and the limits of the liberal imaginary
From within the liberal imaginary, human rights appear to be something that ‘we cannot not want’, even though they...
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Published in: HomeRights. What are they good for?
The rights-bearing individual emancipated us from feudal absolutism in Europe. But that historical moment has passed...
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Published in: HomeRights and power: illiberal constitutions of Latin America
Latin American constitutions are exemplary in going beyond liberalism in the way they formulate human rights. But...
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Published in: HomeHuman rights and the paradoxes of liberalism
Human rights are a hybrid of liberal law, morality and politics. Their ideological power lies in their ambiguity,...
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Published in: HomeHuman rights: from universalism to pragmatism
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Published in: HomeHuman rights, markets, states, and movements
Are human rights nothing but liberal? If so, how do we understand mobilisations for human rights against neoliberal...
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