This essay argues for a decolonial understanding of rights, beyond the conventional
definition of human rights premised on a Western cosmology that foregrounds the human as …

Human rights are paradoxical. Advocates across the world invoke the idea that such rights
belong to all people, no matter who or where they are. But since humans can only realize …

Human rights culture has many tasks to perform. In literature, film, and the visual and
performing arts, works of human rights culture seek to reflect and reflect on our fundamental …

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 …

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for
global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically …

In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a
profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights …

This paper describes and defends a moral constructivist theory of human rights which
characterizes them as an historically-evolved, socially-constructed ethico-legal paradigm …

The much-lamented anthropocentrism of human rights is misleading. Human rights
anthropocentrism is radically attenuated and reflects persistent patterns of intra-and …

This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily
to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the …

New and unremitting violence linked to state, inter-state, and private actors has precipitated
a renewal of social movements, many of which act in concert with human rights ethos and …