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Cultural Studies of Rights

Critical Articulations

John Nguyet Erni editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:4th Jul '14

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At a time of global uncertainties and erosion of liberties, how will cultural studies clear a space for a parallel intellectual and political engagement with human rights practice? How will human rights thinking be liberated from its doctrinal approach to ethics and legal justice? This book forges an alliance between cultural studies and human rights scholarships, to help us better understand the changing and complex political context that continuously shapes contemporary violence. To date, interdisciplinary dialogue or institutional collaboration remains rare across the two domains, resulting in critical interpretive work appearing too vacuous at times and institutional legal work often trapped in doctrinalism. By opening a door for a new and engaging scholarship, this book will re-ignite debates and passions within communication and critical cultural studies in the search for global justice.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

'This book is not aimed at the layperson, something which is evident from titles such as "Reframing Cultural Studies: Human Rights as a Site of Legal-cultural Struggles," and "Immanent Law and the Juridical: Toward a Liberative Ontology of Human Rights." This content, instead, is aimed squarely at those interested in critical and academic research on these issues; however, as a non-academic reader with a legal background and a well developed interest in the interaction between law and society, I still found all of the papers engaging and thought provoking. The authors have written papers that are successful in promoting the value of looking at human rights and cultural studies interactively, rather than from a purely legal or purely cultural point of view...the content would be a valuable addition to any academic collection on human rights and/or cultural studies.'Heather Wylie, Canadian Law Library Review

ISBN: 9781138008953

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 250g

123 pages