Critical Theory and Contemporary Society #: Critical Theory and Human Rights

From Compassion to Coercion

Critical Theory and Contemporary Society #: Critical Theory and Human Rights
David McGrogan
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27 Apr 2021 UK
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9781526131829
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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.

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David McGrogan is Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School
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ISBN-13: 9781526131829
Published: 27 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 288

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