Struggles for the Human
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Struggles for the Human

Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Struggles for the Human

Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights

About this book

In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle. Drawing on her extensive involvement with grassroots social movements in Colombia, Coleman observes that mainstream expressions of human rights have become counterparts to capitalist violence, even as this discourse disavows capitalism's deadly implications. She rejects claims that human rights are inherently tied to capitalism, liberalism, or colonialism, instead showing how human rights can be used to combat these forces. Coleman demonstrates that social justice struggles that are rooted in marginalized communities' lived experiences can reframe human rights in order to challenge oppressive power structures and offer a blueprint for constructing alternative political economies. By examining the practice of redefining human rights away from abstract universals and contextualizing them within concrete struggles for justice, Coleman reveals the transformative potential of human rights and invites readers to question and reshape dominant legal and ethical narratives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction. Human Rights in Struggle
  5. 1 — Necroeconomics: Violence, Law, and Twenty-First-Century Plunder
  6. 2 — Deadly Colonial Ethics: Development Policy-Speak and Corporate Responsibility
  7. 3 — Privatizing Workers’ Rights: Social Partnership in a Neoliberal World
  8. 4 — Elusive Justice: Capital, Impunity, and Counterlegality
  9. 5 — From Pernicious Optimismto Radical Hope: Human Rights beyond Abstract Values
  10. 6 — For an Insurgent Humanism
  11. Conclusion: What Do We Make of Human Rights? Ten Points
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index