From the Margins of Globalization Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

by Gordon, Neve; Balibar, Étienne; Feldman, Andreas E.; Greenstein, Ran; Keenan, Alan; Khatami, Mohammad; Macklin, Audrey; Marton, Ruchama; Munalula, Mulela Margaret; Nesiah, Vasuki; Olea, Helena; Yamin, Alicia

• ISBN13: 9780739108772
• ISBN10: 0739108778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-20
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In From the Margins of Globalization, Neve Gordon assembles work from leading intellectuals and activists in the field of human rights. Each essay in this volume discusses a community or issue left adrift in the wake of global capitalism. Whether it's Mohammad Khatami writing on the United Nations and its role after 9/11 or ftienne Balibar thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism this book comprises a core challenge to human rights by focusing on what lies beyond the margins of a world in constant flux.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Human Rights as Being-Marginal-in-the-World	p. 1
Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Universalism
Islam, Iran, and the Dialogue of Civilizations	p. 25
Racism, Sexism, Universalism(s)	p. 43
Development and Economic Rights
Between Despots and Banks: A Human Rights Response to Africa's Debt Crisis	p. 63
Socioeconomic Rights, Radical Democracy, and Power: South Africa as a Case Study	p. 87
Globalization and the Rights of Stateless People
New Formulas, Old Sins: Human Rights Abuses against Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees in the Americas	p. 129
At the Border of Rights: Migration, Sex Work, and Trafficking	p. 161
The Body, the Mind, and Health Rights
The Right to Madness: From the Personal to the Political-Psychiatry and Human Rights	p. 195
Embodying Shadows: Tracing the Contours of Women's Rights to Health	p. 223
Human Rights and Accountability
Human Rights and Sacred Cows: Framing Violence, Disappearing Struggles	p. 261
Index	p. 297
About the Contributors	p. 309
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