The human right to dominate /
At the turn of the new millennium, a new phenomenon has emerged: conservatives who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture began to embrace human rights in order to advance their own political goals. In this book Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human right...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in culture & politics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | At the turn of the new millennium, a new phenomenon has emerged: conservatives who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture began to embrace human rights in order to advance their own political goals. In this book Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights - generally conceived as a counterhegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices - are being deployed to subjugate the weak and legitimise domination. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199365043 0199365040 9780199365029 0199365024 9780199365036 0199365032 |