What's wrong with rights?: social movements, law and liberal imaginations (Record no. 395654)

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International Standard Book Number 9780745335414
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Item number D8W4
Classification number 303.372
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Personal name D'Souza, Radha
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Title What's wrong with rights?: social movements, law and liberal imaginations
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pluto Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2018
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Extent xv, 255 p.
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Bibliography, etc. note Acknowledgements<br/>Abbreviations<br/>Preface<br/>Part 1: The Rights Resurgence<br/>1. Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations<br/>2. What’s Wrong With Rights?<br/>3. Rights In the ‘Epoch of Imperialism’<br/>Part 2: Re-scripting Rights<br/>4. International Election Monitoring: From ‘Will of the People’ to the ‘Right to free and Fair Elections’<br/>5. The Rights of Victims: From Authorisation to Accountability<br/>6. Intangible Property Rights: The IMF as Underwriters<br/>7. Rights in International Neoliberal Risk-Governance Regime<br/>Concluding Reflections<br/>8. Rights and Social Movements in the ‘Epoch’ of Imperialism<br/>Notes<br/>Index
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Summary, etc. Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World, their experiences of national liberation and socialism and their aspirations for emancipation and freedom.<br/><br/>Social movements demand rights to remedy wrongs and injustices in society. But why do organisations like the World Bank and IMF, the G7 states and the World Economic Forum want to promote rights? Activists and activist scholars are critical of human rights in their diagnosis of problems. But in their prognosis, they reinstate human rights and bring back through the backdoor what they dismiss through the front.<br/><br/>Why are activists and activist scholars unable to 'let go' of human rights? Why do indigenous peoples find the need to invoke the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous People to make their claims sound reasonable? Are rights in the 20th and 21st centuries the same as rights in the 17th and 18th centuries?<br/><br/>This book examines what is entailed in reducing rights to 'human' rights and in the argument 'our understandings of rights are better than theirs' that is popular within social movements and in critical scholarship. <br/><br/>https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745335414/whats-wrong-with-rights/
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social movements
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Human rights
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social justice
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social justice activists - India, New Zealand, UK
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction Ahmedabad Ahmedabad   24/09/2018 12 1.00   303.372 D8W4 197690 24/09/2018 1871.06 24/09/2018 Book

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