The Human Right to Dominate
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2015
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-936501-2 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-936501-2 (ISBN)
The Human Right to Dominate investigates the Israel/Palestine conflict to account for how human rights -- generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices -- are increasingly being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize their domination.
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.
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.
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.
Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Human Rights as Domination ; Chapter 1: The Paradox of Human Rights ; Chapter 2: The Threat of Human Rights ; Chapter 3: The Human Right to Kill ; Chapter 4: The Human Right to Colonize ; Conclusion: What Remains of Human Rights? ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.9.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 160 mm |
| Gewicht | 462 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-936501-6 / 0199365016 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-936501-2 / 9780199365012 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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