The Aporia of Rights Explorations in citizenship in the era of human rights

by Birmingham, Peg; Yeatman, Anna

• ISBN13: 9781501319105
• ISBN10: 1501319108
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781623565602
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-03-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with the politics of human rights.

Author Biography

Anna Yeatman is a Professorial Fellow in the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. She is a political and social theorist who also has practical experience in public policy.

Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, USA. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (2006) and co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (1995).

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction Anna Yeatman
Chapter 2 “Perplexities of the Rights of Man”: Arendt on the Aporias of Human Rights Ayten Gündogdu
Chapter 3 The Multivocity of Human Rights Discourse Jeff Malpas
Chapter 4 Neither Here Nor There: The Conceptual Paradoxes of Immigrant and Asylee Resistance Robert W. Glover
Chapter 5 Acts of Emancipation: Marx, Bauer, and “The Jewish Question” Charles Barbour
Chapter 6 Must democratic rights serve the rights-bearer? The right to vote of people with severe cognitive impairments Ludvig Beckman
Chapter 7 Performing Human Rights: the meaning of rights in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Anthony J. Langlois
Chapter 8 The politics of indigenous human rights in the era of settler state citizenship: Legacies of the nexus between sovereignty, human rights and citizenship Danielle Celermajer
Chapter 9 Revolutionary Declarations: The State of Right and the Right of Opposition Peg Birmingham
Chapter 10 Humanising Militarism: Amnesty International and the Tactical Polyvalence of Human Rights Discourses Jessica Whyte
Chapter 11 Rival Doctrines – the politics of human rights Anna Yeatman
Chapter 12 Afterword Peg Birmingham
Consolidated Bibliography
Index