Deriving from the postmodernist mood, method and messages, critiques of
'contemporary'human rights remain anxious about the re-emergence of the idea of Universal …

This volume examines and critiques several of the classical theoretical foundations of
domestic and international organization, concentrating on the contestable conceptions of …

Optimism of the will Page 1 Optimism of the will Food sovereignty as transformative counterhegemony
in the 21 st century A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for a Doctor of …

In recent years radical democracy has become a prominent perspective in contemporary
political theory. However, radical democracy involves numerous theoretical arguments and …

I shall contend that avowedly feminist media and policy discussions of “sexualization” in the
UK have risked inadvertently problematizing not sexism but propriety. As a result, these …

This book explores the prosecution of wartime sexual violence in international criminal law
and asks what the juridicalisation of gender-based violence signifies for women. The book …

Feminist media discourses on 'sexualisation'have set out a critique of sexist cultural forms in
contemporary society, using the figure of the 'girl'to show how women are socialised in …

O presente artigo possui como objetivo apresentar a contribuição de Wendy Brown para
uma crítica dos direitos a partir da inserção da autora em debates que se dão no contexto …

In this essay, I consider whether or not the contestatory potential of rights politics turns on
replacing identity claims with universalist ones, and why one might be inclined to urge such …

Liberalism and Marxism both reject ethnicity-belongings to kin, religion, culture, race,
descent, or 'blood and soil'-as a basis for the organization of state power. The two positions …