Against the recent backdrop of sociopolitical crisis, radical thinking and activism to challenge
the oppressive operation of power has increased. Such thinkers and activists have aimed for …

The critique of human rights has proliferated in critical legal thinking over recent years,
making it clear that we can no longer uncritically approach human rights in their liberal form …

Do human rights offer the potential to challenge neoliberalism? I argue that rather than
understanding human rights as ideology, as obscuring or legitimating neoliberalism, it is …

The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human
rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling …

Taking liberalism as a technology of government characterised by its signature impulse—
what Michel Foucault called 'the internal rule of maximum economy'—the article interrogates …

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 …

This article begins with a reference to Turner and Water's debate over a foundational versus
constructionist approach to human rights. Noting some scope for complementarity between …

Citing the inability of conventional human rights thinking to address the 'strong'questions
raised by our times, this article pursues a twofold objective: to identify the major challenges …

Human rights are a suspect project–this seems the only sensible starting point today. This
suspicion, however, is not absolute and the desire to preserve and reform human rights …

Responding to human rights critiques, this article draws on some of the literature in the
affective turn and posthumanism to critique the liberal framework as well as the moral …