Introduction: Human rights as domination -- The paradox of human rights -- The threat of human rights -- The human right to kill -- The human right to colonize -- Conclusion: What remains of human rights?
Summary
At the turn of the new millennium, a new phenomenon has emerged: conservatives who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture began to embrace human rights in order to advance their own political goals. In this book Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights - generally conceived as a counterhegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices - are being deployed to subjugate the weak and legitimise domination
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2015)
