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Beschreibung
At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals.

In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights -- generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices -- are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize domination. Using Israel/Palestine as its main case study, The Human Right to Dominate describes the establishment of settler NGOs that appropriate human rights to dispossess indigenous Palestinians and military think-tanks that rationalize lethal violence by invoking human rights. The book underscores the increasing convergences between human rights NGOs, security agencies, settler organizations, and extreme right nationalists, showing how political actors of different stripes champion the dissemination of human rights and mirror each other's political strategies.

Indeed, Perugini and Gordon demonstrate the multifaceted role that this discourse is currently playing in the international arena: on the one hand, human rights have become the lingua franca of global moral speak, while on the other, they have become reconstrued as a tool for enhancing domination.
At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals.

In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights -- generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices -- are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize domination. Using Israel/Palestine as its main case study, The Human Right to Dominate describes the establishment of settler NGOs that appropriate human rights to dispossess indigenous Palestinians and military think-tanks that rationalize lethal violence by invoking human rights. The book underscores the increasing convergences between human rights NGOs, security agencies, settler organizations, and extreme right nationalists, showing how political actors of different stripes champion the dissemination of human rights and mirror each other's political strategies.

Indeed, Perugini and Gordon demonstrate the multifaceted role that this discourse is currently playing in the international arena: on the one hand, human rights have become the lingua franca of global moral speak, while on the other, they have become reconstrued as a tool for enhancing domination.
Über den Autor
Nicola Perugini is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle East Studies and Italian Studies at Brown University.

Neve Gordon is Professor of Politics and Governemnt at Ben-Gurion University and author of Israel's Occupation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • Introduction: Human Rights as Domination

  • Chapter 1: The Paradox of Human Rights

  • Chapter 2: The Threat of Human Rights

  • Chapter 3: The Human Right to Kill

  • Chapter 4: The Human Right to Colonize

  • Conclusion: What Remains of Human Rights?

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199365005
ISBN-10: 0199365008
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Perugini, Nicola
Hersteller: OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Nicola Perugini
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.06.2015
Gewicht: 0,376 kg
Artikel-ID: 108605988

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