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Author Williams, Randall, 1964-

Title The divided world : human rights and its violence / Randall Williams
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 158 pages)
Contents Introduction: The international division of humanity -- Conscience denied : Amnesty International and the antirevolution of the 1960s -- Who claims modernity? : the international frame of sexual recognition -- A duty to intervene : on the cinematic constitution of subjects for empire in Hotel Rwanda and Caché -- Expiation for the dispossessed : truth commissions, testimonios, and tyrannicide -- Combat theory : anti-imperialist analytics since Fanon -- Coda : the transition from dumb to smart power
Summary Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, this book shows how the concept of human rights - often taken for granted as a force for good in the world - corresponds directly with U.S. imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more recently, M. Jacqui Alexander and China Miéville, the text insists on a reckoning of human rights with the violence of colonial modernity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Human rights.
Political violence.
terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Human rights
Political violence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816673506
0816673500
9781452946290
1452946299