Rightlessness in an Age of Rights

Rightlessness in an Age of Rights offers a critical inquiry of human rights by rethinking the key concepts and arguments of twentieth-century political theorist Hannah Arendt. At the heart of this critical inquiry are the challenging questions posed by the contemporary struggles of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants.

List of contents

• Introduction: Human Rights across Borders


• Chapter 1: Perplexities of Human Rights


• Chapter 2: Human Rights as Politics and Anti-politics


• Chapter 3: Borders of Personhood


• Chapter 4: Expulsion from Politics and Humanity


• Chapter 5: Declarations of A Right to Have Rights


• Conclusion: The Struggle Remains Undecided


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Ayten Gundogdu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College-Columbia University.

Summary

Rightlessness in an Age of Rights offers a critical inquiry of human rights by rethinking the key concepts and arguments of twentieth-century political theorist Hannah Arendt. At the heart of this critical inquiry are the challenging questions posed by the contemporary struggles of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants.

Additional text

Bristling with insights into the plight of migrants in today's global economy, Gundogdu's book offers a creative rereading of Hannah Arendt's controversial critique of human rights. She perceptively grasps that the key insight in Arendt's difficult notion of a 'right to have rights' is not to ground rights in a normative foundation but to reanimate them as quotidian political practices of founding. In this way, Gundogdu offers a fresh response to the tenacious problems of rightlessness which at once includes and goes well beyond juridical appeals to the sovereign state.

Product details

• Authors: Ayten Gundogdu, Ayten (Assistant Professor of Political Gundogdu, Ayten Gündogdu, Gundogdu Ayten
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9780199370429
• ISBN: 978-0-19-937042-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law