David McGrogan

Critical theory and human rights (eBook, ePUB)

From compassion to coercion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the 'human rights performance' of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the 'governmentalisation' of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526131843
• Artikelnr.: 61815961

Autorenporträt

David McGrogan is Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Solipsism and imperialism 2 Between nomos and telos 3 Human
rights' directing idea 4 The governmentalisation of global human rights
governance 5 Tactics rather than laws 6 Nothing but rejoicing Conclusion
Index