Critical Perspectives on Human Rightsprovides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the significance of human rights for critical theory and practice. While the contributions engage sensitively yet thoroughly with the regulatory, disciplinary, and exclusionary effects of human rights, they do so without giving up on the transformative potential of human rights. By thinking productively through the exclusions, paradoxes and aporias of human rights,Critical Perspectives on Human Rights isa key reference text for students and scholars in this important area of inquiry.

Birgit Schippers is Senior Lecturer in Politics at St Marys University College Belfast.

Preface / Introduction,Birgit Schippers / 1. Rethinking the human in human rights,Moya Lloyd / 2. "A Performativity Proper to Refusal? Judith Butler and the Resignification of Human Rights,Ben Golder /
3. Towards a Posthumanist Conception of Human Rights?,Birgit Schippers / 4. The Gender of Dignity,Karen Zivi /5. Justification, Practice and Queer: global sexuality politics and human rights, Anthony J. Langlois / 6. Borders of Human Rights: Outlines of an Aporetic Critique,Ayten Gündodu /7. Human Rights and Transnational Citizenship,Robin Dunford / 8. Eurocentric and Decolonial Histories of Human Rights,Jose-Manuel Barreto / 9. The Liberal Nature of Critique and Human Nature: Evaluating Critiques of Human Rights,Rachel L. Wahl /Afterword, contributor tbc / Bibliography / Index
+race/indigeneity / class and economic hierarchy / critical human rights practices