Critical theory and human rights (eBook)

From compassion to coercion

David McGrogan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
280 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3184-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the 'human rights performance' of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the 'governmentalisation' of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves. -- .

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Darrow Schecter
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: freedom • Global Governance • Governmentality • Human Rights • International Law • managerialism • Michael Oakeshott • Michel Foucault • pastoral power • the State
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-3184-6 / 1526131846
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-3184-3 / 9781526131843