The Human Right to Dominate
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 July 2015
- ISBN 9780199365005
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 231x155x22 mm
- Weight 295 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Human Right to Dominate investigates the Israel/Palestine conflict to account for how human rights -- generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices -- are increasingly being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize their domination.
MoreLong description:
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.
The Human Right to Dominate is a compelling book for many reasons. The authors present a clear argument that the relationship between human rights and domination is strong and insidious, and explore it through the case of the seemingly intractable Israel/Palestine conflict, which attracts some of the most voluble human rights debate. ... Perugini and Gordon have made a welcome contribution to the growing range of scholarship that takes a hard, critical look at what the human rights system has become.
Table of Contents:
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
