Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence - Couverture souple

Lechte, John; Newman, Saul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474403050 ISBN 13 : 9781474403054

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? We are living in world in which human rights are violated on an unprecedented scale, often by the states who claim to protect them. According to Giorgio Agamben, this is no coincidence: he argues that human rights are actually a sign of our growing powerlessness and political alienation. Taking Agamben's critique as their starting point, Lechte and Newman explore questions of statelessness, exclusion, the violence of securitisation and the visual representation of refugees and illegal migrants in the media. They propose a radical rethinking of human rights: as disengaged from humanitarianism, biopolitics, sovereignty and the society of the spectacle; as becoming genuinely political.

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À propos de l'auteur

John Lechte is Professor in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Saul Newman is Professor in Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474403050
• ISBN 13: 9781474403054
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
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