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Record Nr.

UNINA9910860806103321

Autore

Goodale Mark

Titolo

Reinventing human rights / / Mark Goodale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-5036-3101-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Stanford Studies in Human Rights

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Human rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Human Rights against the Maelstroms -- 2 Human Rights, Capitalism, and the Ends of Economic Life -- 3 Remaking Sovereignty in the Image of Human Rights -- 4 Human Rights beyond the Rule of Law -- 5 Decolonizing Human Rights -- 6 Human Rights Otherwise -- 7 The Subjects of Human Rights -- 8 Human Rights in a G20 World -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo—Mark Goodale offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal. Goodale's proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the "practice of human rights." Rather than a priori claims to universality, he calls for a working theory of human rights defined by "translocality," a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity. This book will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for



confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree—for many different reasons—that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.