Bryan S. Turner is Director of the Committee for the Study of Religion and Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies and Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Western Sydney. Among his many publications are the Penguin Dictionary of Sociology, Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, and Sage Handbook of Sociology.

• ContentsAcknowledgments1.Crimes Against Humanity2.Vulnerability and Suffering3.Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory4.Reproductive and Sexual Rights5.Rights of Impairment and Disability6.Rights of the Body7.Old and New XenophobiaReferencesIndex

“Bryan Turner’s Vulnerability and Human Rights is a concise but wide-ranging discussion of cutting-edge themes in sociology, seen through the prism and oriented toward the realization of the human rights paradigm. Avoiding foundationalist fallacies, it seeks to establish a grounding for the idea of human rights in our unavoidable vulnerability. The book will make a major contribution to the growing contemporary discussion in the field.”—John Torpey, CUNY Graduate Center

Bryan S. Turner is Director of the Committee for the Study of Religion and Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies and Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Western Sydney. Among his many publications are the Penguin Dictionary of Sociology, Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, and Sage Handbook of Sociology.

• ContentsAcknowledgments1.Crimes Against Humanity2.Vulnerability and Suffering3.Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory4.Reproductive and Sexual Rights5.Rights of Impairment and Disability6.Rights of the Body7.Old and New XenophobiaReferencesIndex

“Bryan Turner’s Vulnerability and Human Rights is a concise but wide-ranging discussion of cutting-edge themes in sociology, seen through the prism and oriented toward the realization of the human rights paradigm. Avoiding foundationalist fallacies, it seeks to establish a grounding for the idea of human rights in our unavoidable vulnerability. The book will make a major contribution to the growing contemporary discussion in the field.”—John Torpey, CUNY Graduate Center

Bryan S. Turner is Director of the Committee for the Study of Religion and Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies and Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Western Sydney. Among his many publications are the Penguin Dictionary of Sociology, Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, and Sage Handbook of Sociology.

• ContentsAcknowledgments1.Crimes Against Humanity2.Vulnerability and Suffering3.Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory4.Reproductive and Sexual Rights5.Rights of Impairment and Disability6.Rights of the Body7.Old and New XenophobiaReferencesIndex

“Bryan Turner’s Vulnerability and Human Rights is a concise but wide-ranging discussion of cutting-edge themes in sociology, seen through the prism and oriented toward the realization of the human rights paradigm. Avoiding foundationalist fallacies, it seeks to establish a grounding for the idea of human rights in our unavoidable vulnerability. The book will make a major contribution to the growing contemporary discussion in the field.”—John Torpey, CUNY Graduate Center