Human Rights and Subjectivity - Imagining a Sensing and Feeling Human

This book draws on a range of theoretical frameworks to challenge the limited conception of subjectivity upon which human rights are based.

List of contents

Introduction Part I: A challenge to the 'human' of human rights 1. Actualizing the figure of the refugee to challenge a system based on the citizen-subject 2. Human, right? Analysing the subject of human rights through posthumanist approaches 3. Contesting the dominant ontology and epistemology through critical theories from the margins Part II: Towards more sensuous and inclusive international human rights 4. Exposing the imagined subject of human rights through a visual discourse analysis 5. Sensing the subject of international human rights Concluding thoughts and feelings

About the author

Elisabeth Roy-Trudel is a member of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Summary

This book draws on a range of theoretical frameworks to challenge the limited conception of subjectivity upon which human rights are based.

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Roy-Trudel, Elisabeth (Concordia University Roy-Trudel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032548890
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254889-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / International, LAW / Public, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Systems of law, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social Law, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Social law and Medical law