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Title: Critical Theory and Human Rights : From Compassion to Coercion
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
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