Joe Hoover is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of International Politics at Queen Mary University London, where his research and teaching is on global ethics and international political theory, with a focus on human rights and the global movement for a human right to housing. His work has appeared in Third World Quarterly, Law and Contemporary Problems, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Human Rights , International Theory, and Human Rights Review.

In sum, this book offers a fresh and original understanding on human rights and contributes to the reflection on the nature and role of political theory. At a time when the Humanities are asked to justify their own existence and to prove that they have impact on the practical world, this book answers this concern by suggesting interdisciplinary research on the role and meaning of human rights in actual political activity, and in the practices and ideas of the actors (in particular social movement and political activists) involved.

• 1: Reconstructing Human Rights 2: Human Rights and the Ethics of Uncertainty 3: Human Rights and the Politics of Uncertainty 4: Human Rights as Situationist Ethics 5: Human Rights as Agonistic Politics 6: Human Rights as Democratising Ethos 7: Conclusion

Joe Hoover is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of International Politics at Queen Mary University London, where his research and teaching is on global ethics and international political theory, with a focus on human rights and the global movement for a human right to housing. His work has appeared in Third World Quarterly, Law and Contemporary Problems, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Human Rights , International Theory, and Human Rights Review.

In sum, this book offers a fresh and original understanding on human rights and contributes to the reflection on the nature and role of political theory. At a time when the Humanities are asked to justify their own existence and to prove that they have impact on the practical world, this book answers this concern by suggesting interdisciplinary research on the role and meaning of human rights in actual political activity, and in the practices and ideas of the actors (in particular social movement and political activists) involved.

• 1: Reconstructing Human Rights 2: Human Rights and the Ethics of Uncertainty 3: Human Rights and the Politics of Uncertainty 4: Human Rights as Situationist Ethics 5: Human Rights as Agonistic Politics 6: Human Rights as Democratising Ethos 7: Conclusion

Joe Hoover is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of International Politics at Queen Mary University London, where his research and teaching is on global ethics and international political theory, with a focus on human rights and the global movement for a human right to housing. His work has appeared in Third World Quarterly, Law and Contemporary Problems, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Human Rights , International Theory, and Human Rights Review.

In sum, this book offers a fresh and original understanding on human rights and contributes to the reflection on the nature and role of political theory. At a time when the Humanities are asked to justify their own existence and to prove that they have impact on the practical world, this book answers this concern by suggesting interdisciplinary research on the role and meaning of human rights in actual political activity, and in the practices and ideas of the actors (in particular social movement and political activists) involved.

• 1: Reconstructing Human Rights 2: Human Rights and the Ethics of Uncertainty 3: Human Rights and the Politics of Uncertainty 4: Human Rights as Situationist Ethics 5: Human Rights as Agonistic Politics 6: Human Rights as Democratising Ethos 7: Conclusion