Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

Birgit Schippers is Senior Lecturer in Politics at St Mary’s University College Belfast.

• Introduction, Birgit SchippersPart I: Troubling Human Rights1 Language and Freedom in Critiques of Human Rights, Rachel Wahl2 Human Rights Trouble? Judith Butler and the Performative Refusal of Human Rights, Ben Golder3 Rethinking the Human in Human Rights, Moya Lloyd4 Towards a Posthumanist Conception of Human Rights, Birgit SchippersPart II: Practicing Human Rights5 Practice, Justification and Queer: Human Rights meets Sexuality and Gender Diversity, Anthony J. Langlois6 Human Dignity and Human Rights: Lessons from the Fight for Marriage Equality in the United States, Karen Zivi7 The Political Movement for a Human Right to the City, Joe Hoover8 Peasant Activism and the Ambiguity of Human Rights, Robin DunfordPart III: The Geopolitics of Human Rights9 Eurocentric and Third-World Histories of Human Rights: Critique, Recognition and Dialogue, José-Manuel Barreto10 Critical Theory, Sociology, and Human Rights, Mark Frezzo11 Borders of Human Rights: Territorial Sovereignty and the Precarious Personhood of Migrants, Ayten GündogduAfterword: Situating Human Rights in the Postpolitical Landscape, Upendra BaxiBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

This outstanding collection of critical essays about human rights, beautifully curated by Birgit Schippers, is a must-read both within the field and across the disciplines. Among other things, the essays are animated by an interest in forms of activism and contestation that transcend minimalism and moralism in the face of the rising crises of our time.