What is the source of human rights' resonance and does that legitimize working on human
rights transnationally? This article responds both to human rights critics (among them …

We live in a human-rights world. The language of human-rights claims and numerous
human-rights institutions shape almost all aspects of our political lives, yet we struggle to …

This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies,
exploring the interaction between the international human rights framework and different …

Paradoxically, the political success of human rights is often taken to be its philosophical
failing. From US interventions to International NGOs to indigenous movements, human rights …

The notion of universality is said to enact not merely new versions of essentialism about
human nature but also to invoke the notion of metanarratives: global stories about power …

Should human rights be understood within a specific context? In order words, should the
discourse on human rights be historically contingent? If so, isn't there a risk that they will lose …

This paper considers political agency and space as found in Cavarero's For More Than One
Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression in order to take a critical philosophical …

There is a conceptual contretemps in international human rights. And just as this crisis is
troubling to those who write about legal institutions, it poses a conundrum for those who …

While recent scholarship has turned to the increasing fragmentation of global human rights
discourses, the often competing ideological projects in which different understandings of …

Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global
scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On …