From the Margins of Globalization : Critical Perspectives on Human Rights / edited by Neve Gordon

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Description:
'Either you are with us or you are with the Terrorists!' President Bush exclaimed in a joint session of Congress ten days after the September 11 attacks. Even though the war on terrorism and the discourse surrounding it were ostensibly unleashed to protect freedom and enhance democracy, they have actually empowered authoritarian elements of state power and relegated human rights to the margins of the political arena. InFrom the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Neve Gordon assembles work of leading intellectuals and rights activists from around the globe. While highlighting the importance of human rights, each essay in this volume also encourages a critical perspective, stretching, as it were, the conception of human rights beyond its current borders. Whether it's Iranian premier, Mohammad Khatami, writing on the clash of civilizations, Ytienne Balibar thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism, or Ruchama Marton discussing the relation between human rights and psychiatry, this book comprises a challenge to some of the dominant worldviews circulating in the west. Anyone studying human rights or globalization in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political science, political theory, economy and sociology should have a copy of this volume.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Human Rights as Being-Marginal in the World
Chapter 2 Islam, Iran, and the Dialogue of Civilizations
Chapter 3 Racism, Sexism, Universalism(s)
Chapter 4 Of Despots and Banks: A Human Rights Response to Africa's Debt Crisis
Chapter 5 Socio-Economic Rights, Radical Democracy and Power: South Africa as a Case Study
Chapter 6 New Formulas, Old Sins: Human Rights Abuses Against Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees in the Americas
Chapter 7 At the Border of Rights: Migration, Sex-Work, and Trafficking
Chapter 8 The Right to Madness: From Personal to Political - Psychiatry and Human Rights
Chapter 9 Em-bodying Shadows: Tracing the Contours of Women's Rights to Health
Chapter 10 Human Rights and Sacred Cows: Framing Violence, Disappearing Struggles