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The Human Right to Dominate: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics

Autor Nicola Perugini, Neve Gordon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iul 2015
At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals. In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights -- generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices -- are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize domination. Using Israel/Palestine as its main case study, The Human Right to Dominate describes the establishment of settler NGOs that appropriate human rights to dispossess indigenous Palestinians and military think-tanks that rationalize lethal violence by invoking human rights. The book underscores the increasing convergences between human rights NGOs, security agencies, settler organizations, and extreme right nationalists, showing how political actors of different stripes champion the dissemination of human rights and mirror each other's political strategies. Indeed, Perugini and Gordon demonstrate the multifaceted role that this discourse is currently playing in the international arena: on the one hand, human rights have become the lingua franca of global moral speak, while on the other, they have become reconstrued as a tool for enhancing domination.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199365005
ISBN-10: 0199365008
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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The Human Right to Dominate is a compelling book for many reasons. The authors present a clear argument that the relationship between human rights and domination is strong and insidious, and explore it through the case of the seemingly intractable Israel/Palestine conflict, which attracts some of the most voluble human rights debate. ... Perugini and Gordon have made a welcome contribution to the growing range of scholarship that takes a hard, critical look at what the human rights system has become.
The tight relationship between human rights and the sovereign state has elicited significant critical attention (Agamben, 1998; Arendt [1951] 1968; Douzinas, 2000; cf. Cohen, 2012), and Perugini and Gordon (2015) make an important contribution to this literature as they examine Israel's creation as a representative example of "the constitutive relationship between human rights, national statecraft, and domination" (Perugini and Gordon, 2015:30).
This books intriguing title sums up a critical, compelling and innovative analysis of human rights Perugini and Gordon make a very important contribution to re-thinking the role of human rightstheir relation to state power, to domination and oppression and their functioning in social struggles.
Nourished by a profound knowledge of the intricacies of the situation in Israel and Palestine, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon uncover a remarkable paradox of contemporary society: how the claim for human rights can coexist with the use of violence and serve purposes of domination. Their convincing analysis invites a critical rethinking of the global moral order.
This is a stunning book. The clarity and insight of The Human Right to Dominate should be required reading for anyone concerned with human rights. The aim of the authors is not to debunk the concept, but to suggest that it must be open to a critical reinterpretation that subverts, rather than reinforces, relations of domination.
For Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, if we celebrate the idea of human rights when progress occurs, we must also blame it when things go wrong. And their disturbing book on the fate of human rights in Israel/Palestine in the last decade shows why - not least when illegal settlers claim the ideals for themselves. But while wary of easy uplift, The Human Right to Dominate ultimately calls for saving human rights from what they have become in an age when states usually win and our highest values can help launder endless wars.
The Human Right to Dominate is a highly original, provocative, and timely contribution. Perugini and Gordon offer a critical realist examination of the state of human rights in light of the fact that states, militaries, and other national security actors have used the language of human rights to justify wars, occupations, and extra-judicial executions. This, they argue, is not a misappropriation but a paradoxical consequence of the successful elevation of human rights language into a globalized normative framework.
The text is cogently argued, thought-provoking, and filled with fascinating detail. Perugini and Gordon provide a convincing demolition of the idea that human rights stand above politics, and that they always work in defense of the oppressed.
A necessary comprehensive monography authored by two leading international human rights scholars and practitioners.
Bringing the historical, legal, and societal dimensions of the right to science together makes this book not merely unique, but also a crucial and necessary contribution to the advancement of this human right for its beneficiaries.
An in-depth guide to the intriguing history and surprisingly pervasive spread of the Right to Science in legal and scientific frameworks worldwide. A highly recommended work for both scientific and legal experts, as well as for those new to the idea of science as a human right.
Comprehensive and systematic. Any scientist should keep a copy in the lab to be reminded of this key human right that impacts their work.
Cesare Romano and Andrea Boggio's large-scale, comprehensive study of the human right to science is a major contribution not just to legal studies and human rights scholarship but to any ethical-political appraisal of public policies for the funding and regulation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
An incisive exploration of science and human rights that reshapes our understanding of actual and future science policy.
A very much needed addition to the literature on science and human rights.

Notă biografică

Nicola Perugini is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle East Studies and Italian Studies at Brown University.Neve Gordon is Professor of Politics and Governemnt at Ben-Gurion University and author of Israel's Occupation.