Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights

Name: Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights
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Statelessness, Images, Violence

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We are living in a world in which human rights are violated on an unprecedented scale, often by the states who claim to protect them. According to Giorgio Agamben, this is no coincidence: he argues that human rights are actually a sign of our growing powerlessness and political alienation. Taking Agamben's critique as their starting point, Lechte and Newman explore questions of statelessness, exclusion, the violence of securitisation and the visual representation of refugees and illegal migrants in the media. They propose a radical rethinking of human rights: as disengaged from humanitarianism, biopolitics, sovereignty and the society of the spectacle; as becoming genuinely political.

Author Biography:

John Lechte is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University. Saul Newman is Reader in Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Release date Australia

May 31st, 2013

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

4 b&w illustrations

Pages

192

Dimensions

156x234x18

ISBN-13

9780748645725

Product ID

21036984

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