In an era of heightened concern about injustice in relations of identity and difference,
political theorists often prescribe equal recognition as a remedy for the ills of subordination …

While the 1960s marked a rights revolution in the United States, the subsequent decades
have witnessed a rights revolution around the globe, a revolution that for many is a sign of …

This article draws from interview material with sex worker rights activists in London, and sex
work scholarship, to explore the demand for labour rights for sex workers and erotic dancers …

As the first extended collection to offer perspectives on translation and activism from a global
perspective, this handbook includes case studies and histories of oppressed and …

Debate over the theory of rights has recently reemerged, with a confrontation between
postfoundational writings that challenge the very discourse of rights and Habermasians (and …

This article adopts an analysis that explicitly politicises poverty and relates it to the concrete
history of racialised capitalism and structural inequality that defined colonialism and …

This essay explores the use of situated testimony in documentary films and videos about
belonging, displacement, and return while calling for a 'spatial turn'in trauma studies …

Giorgio Agamben presents us with one of the most powerful and controversial criticisms of
human rights. He contests conventional understandings of human rights as normative …

It has become increasingly commonplace among radical democratic theorists of all hues to
contend that civil society is a preferable, even superior, site of democratic political activity to …

The present article argues that as legal scholars we need to attend to the many ways in
which human rights are represented in metaphor because metaphor is jurisgenerative (ie …