1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452685603321

Autore

Daly Erin

Titolo

Dignity rights : courts, constitutions, and the worth of the human person / / Erin Daly ; foreword by Aharon Barak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-89824-1

0-8122-0727-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism

Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism

Altri autori (Persone)

BarakAharon

Disciplina

342.08/5

Soggetti

Respect for persons - Law and legislation

Dignity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Barak, Aharon -- Introduction -- 1. "Of All Members of the Human Family" -- 2. "Not . . . a Mere Plaything" -- 3. "The Minimum Necessities of Life" -- 4. "Master of One's Fate" -- 5. "What Respect Is Due" -- 6. "The Beginning and the End of the State" -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

The right to dignity is now recognized in most of the world's constitutions, and hardly a new constitution is adopted without it. Over the last sixty years, courts in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America have developed a robust jurisprudence of dignity on subjects as diverse as health care, imprisonment, privacy, education, culture, the environment, sexuality, and death. As the range and growing number of cases about dignity attest, it is invoked and recognized by courts far more frequently than other constitutional guarantees.Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world. Erin Daly shows how dignity has come not only to define specific interests like the right to humane treatment or to earn a living wage, but also to protect the basic rights of a person to control his or her own life and to live in society with others. Daly argues that, through the right to dignity, courts are redefining what it



means to be human in the modern world. As described by the courts, the scope of dignity rights marks the outer boundaries of state power, limiting state authority to meet the demands of human dignity. As a result, these cases force us to reexamine the relationship between the individual and the state and, in turn, contribute to a new and richer understanding of the role of the citizen in modern democracies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822991103321

Titolo

The state we're in : reflecting on democracy's troubles / / edited by Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-225-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 pages)

Collana

Wyse Series in Social Anthropology ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Democracy - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: When Democracy ‘Goes Wrong’ -- 1 After (?) Democracy: Time, Space and Affect in Peruvian Political Imaginaries -- 2 Democracy and the Ethical Imagination -- 3 Why Indonesians Turn Against Democracy -- 4 Opposition and Group Formation: Authoritarianism Yesterday and Today -- 5 Rejecting or Remaking Democratic Practices? Experiences during Times of Crisis in Italy -- 6 ‘The People’ and Political Opposition in Post-democracy: Reflections on the Hollowing of Democracy in Greece and Europe -- 7 Debt Society Consolidated? Post-democratic Subjectivity and its Discontents -- 8 Politics after Democracy Experiments in Horizontality -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with



what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality, and exploring its relevance to countries ranging from Kenya to Peru, The State We’re In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.