Imagining Human Rights
Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward discrepancy between idealism and reality in huma...
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| author | Kim, David D. Kaul, Susanne |
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| description | Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs, but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human rights. By that the contributors mean not merely subject to imagination, open to interpretation or far too abstract, but also formative of a social imaginary with emphatic identifications and shared values. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they explore critical ways of engaging in rigorous interdisciplinary conversations about the origin and language of human rights, personal dignity, redistributive justice, and international solidarity. Together, they show how and why a careful examination of the intersection between disciplinary investigations is essential for imagining human rights at large. Examples range from the legitimacy of land ownership rights and the inadequacy of human faculty to make sense of mass violence in visual representation to the stewardship of human rights promoters and the genealogy of human rights. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-499592023-12-20T16:25:00Z Imagining Human Rights Kim, David D. Kaul, Susanne K1-7720 PN1-6790 B1-5802 Justice Dignity Literature Law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs, but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human rights. By that the contributors mean not merely subject to imagination, open to interpretation or far too abstract, but also formative of a social imaginary with emphatic identifications and shared values. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they explore critical ways of engaging in rigorous interdisciplinary conversations about the origin and language of human rights, personal dignity, redistributive justice, and international solidarity. Together, they show how and why a careful examination of the intersection between disciplinary investigations is essential for imagining human rights at large. Examples range from the legitimacy of land ownership rights and the inadequacy of human faculty to make sense of mass violence in visual representation to the stewardship of human rights promoters and the genealogy of human rights. 2021-02-11T15:55:27Z 2021-02-11T15:55:27Z 2016-01-05 13:29:51 2015 book 17942 9783110387292 9783110376616 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/49959 eng application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110376616 De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110376616 10.1515/9783110376616 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9783110387292 9783110376616 viii, 227 open access |
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