Lara Montesinos Coleman

Struggles for the Human

Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

Lara Montesinos Coleman presents an ethnographic exploration of contemporary human rights discourse that reorients debates on legality, ethics, and humanity within anticapitalist and decolonial struggles.

Produktdetails

• Global and Insurgent Legalities
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025566
• ISBN-10: 1478025565
• Artikelnr.: 67981751

Autorenporträt

Lara Montesinos Coleman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Human Rights in Struggle  1
1. Necroeconomics: Violence, Law, and Twenty-First-Century Plunder  27
2. Deadly Colonial Ethics: Development Policy-Speak and Corporate
Responsibility  57
3. Privatizing Workers’ Rights: Social Partnership in a Neoliberal World 
81
4. Elusive Justice: Capital, Impunity, and Counterlegality  105
5. From Pernicious Optimism to Radical Hope: Human Rights beyond Abstract
Values  132
6. For an Insurgent Humanism  153
Conclusion. What Do We Make of Human Rights? Ten Points  170
Notes  175
Bibliography  213
Index  239