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.
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Political violence.
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terrorism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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Human rights
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Political violence
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780816673506 |
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0816673500 |
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9781452946290 |
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1452946299 |
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