Struggles for the Human

Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights

Lara Montesinos Coleman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2556-6 (ISBN)

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In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle. Drawing on her extensive involvement with grassroots social movements in Colombia, Coleman observes that mainstream expressions of human rights have become counterparts to capitalist violence, even as this discourse disavows capitalism’s deadly implications. She rejects claims that human rights are inherently tied to capitalism, liberalism, or colonialism, instead showing how human rights can be used to combat these forces. Coleman demonstrates that social justice struggles that are rooted in marginalized communities’ lived experiences can reframe human rights in order to challenge oppressive power structures and offer a blueprint for constructing alternative political economies. By examining the practice of redefining human rights away from abstract universals and contextualizing them within concrete struggles for justice, Coleman reveals the transformative potential of human rights and invites readers to question and reshape dominant legal and ethical narratives.

Lara Montesinos Coleman is Reader in International Relations, Law, and Development and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and coeditor of Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent.

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Human Rights in Struggle 1
1. Necroeconomics: Violence, Law, and Twenty-First-Century Plunder 27
2. Deadly Colonial Ethics: Development Policy-Speak and Corporate Responsibility 57
3. Privatizing Workers’ Rights: Social Partnership in a Neoliberal World 81
4. Elusive Justice: Capital, Impunity, and Counterlegality 105
5. From Pernicious Optimism to Radical Hope: Human Rights beyond Abstract Values 132
6. For an Insurgent Humanism 153
Conclusion. What Do We Make of Human Rights? Ten Points 170
Notes 175
Bibliography 213
Index 239

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Global and Insurgent Legalities
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4780-2556-5 / 1478025565
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2556-6 / 9781478025566
Zustand	Neuware