Critical Theory and Human Rights : From Compassion to Coercion
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| Title: | Critical Theory and Human Rights : From Compassion to Coercion |
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| Description: | This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights'evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the ‘human rights performance'of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the ‘governmentalisation'of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves. |
| Authors: | David McGrogan |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Critical theory, Human rights--Political aspects |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights'evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the ‘human rights performance'of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the ‘governmentalisation'of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves. |
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| ISBN: | 9781526131829 9781526131836 9781526131843 |
