The Resource Gender, alterity and human rights : freedom in a fishbowl, Ratna Kapur (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Gender, alterity and human rights : freedom in a fishbowl, Ratna Kapur (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
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- Summary
- Human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. This book builds on the critique of this mainstream and official position on human rights, drawing attention to how human rights have been deployed to advance political and cultural intents rather than bring about freedom for disenfranchised groups. Its approach is unique insofar as it focuses on queer, feminist and postcolonial human rights advocacy, exposing how such interventions have at times advanced neo-liberal agendas and new forms of imperialism, and enabled a carceral politics rather than producing freedom for their constituencies. Through a focus on campaigns for same-sex marriage, ending violence against women, and the Islamic veil bans in liberal democracies, human rights emerge as forms of governance that operate through normative prescriptions, which bind even as they purport to free, and establish a hierarchy of the human subject: who is human and who is not; who qualifies for rights and who does not. This book argues that the futurity of human rights rests in a transformative engagement with non-liberal registers of freedom beyond the narrow confines of the liberal fishbowl. This book will have a global appeal for students and academics concerned with international and human rights law, jurisprudence, critical legal theory, gender studies, postcolonial studies, feminist legal theory, queer theory, religious studies, and philosophy. It will appeal to political activists and policymakers in the global justice arena concerned with the freedom of disenfranchised groups, human rights, gender justice, and the rights sexual and religious minorities
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
- Contents
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- Contents: Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. Liberal freedom in a fishbowl
- 2. Precarious desires and the pursuit of rights
- 3. Freedom, women's rights and the rise of the sexual security regime
- 4. Gender equality and the unveiling of alterity
- 5. Despair, redemption and the turn away from human rights
- 6. Seeking freedom through alternative registers
- 7. Freedom from the fishbowl
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Isbn
- 9781788112536
- Label
- Gender, alterity and human rights : freedom in a fishbowl
- Title
- Gender, alterity and human rights
- Title remainder
- freedom in a fishbowl
- Statement of responsibility
- Ratna Kapur (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. This book builds on the critique of this mainstream and official position on human rights, drawing attention to how human rights have been deployed to advance political and cultural intents rather than bring about freedom for disenfranchised groups. Its approach is unique insofar as it focuses on queer, feminist and postcolonial human rights advocacy, exposing how such interventions have at times advanced neo-liberal agendas and new forms of imperialism, and enabled a carceral politics rather than producing freedom for their constituencies. Through a focus on campaigns for same-sex marriage, ending violence against women, and the Islamic veil bans in liberal democracies, human rights emerge as forms of governance that operate through normative prescriptions, which bind even as they purport to free, and establish a hierarchy of the human subject: who is human and who is not; who qualifies for rights and who does not. This book argues that the futurity of human rights rests in a transformative engagement with non-liberal registers of freedom beyond the narrow confines of the liberal fishbowl. This book will have a global appeal for students and academics concerned with international and human rights law, jurisprudence, critical legal theory, gender studies, postcolonial studies, feminist legal theory, queer theory, religious studies, and philosophy. It will appeal to political activists and policymakers in the global justice arena concerned with the freedom of disenfranchised groups, human rights, gender justice, and the rights sexual and religious minorities
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kapur, Ratna
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- K3240
- LC item number
- .K37 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Series statement
- Elgar studies in legal theory
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- Human rights
- Other (Philosophy)
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- Gender, alterity and human rights : freedom in a fishbowl, Ratna Kapur (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- Contents
- Contents: Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Liberal freedom in a fishbowl -- 2. Precarious desires and the pursuit of rights -- 3. Freedom, women's rights and the rise of the sexual security regime -- 4. Gender equality and the unveiling of alterity -- 5. Despair, redemption and the turn away from human rights -- 6. Seeking freedom through alternative registers -- 7. Freedom from the fishbowl -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
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- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Temp Access
- Isbn
- 9781788112536
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- (e-book)
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- computer
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- rdamedia
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
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- Gender, alterity and human rights : freedom in a fishbowl, Ratna Kapur (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Contents: Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Liberal freedom in a fishbowl -- 2. Precarious desires and the pursuit of rights -- 3. Freedom, women's rights and the rise of the sexual security regime -- 4. Gender equality and the unveiling of alterity -- 5. Despair, redemption and the turn away from human rights -- 6. Seeking freedom through alternative registers -- 7. Freedom from the fishbowl -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Temp Access
- Isbn
- 9781788112536
- Isbn Type
- (e-book)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Specific material designation
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