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- English
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Reinventing Human Rights
About this book
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 reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo—Mark Goodale offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal.
Goodale's proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the "practice of human rights." Rather than a priori claims to universality, he calls for a working theory of human rights defined by "translocality," a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity.
This book will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree—for many different reasons—that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Series Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Human Rights against the Maelstroms
- 2. Human Rights, Capitalism, and the Ends of Economic Life
- 3. Remaking Sovereignty in the Image of Human Rights
- 4. Human Rights beyond the Rule of Law
- 5. Decolonizing Human Rights
- 6. Human Rights Otherwise
- 7. The Subjects of Human Rights
- 8. Human Rights in a G20 World
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Series List