The Work of Global Justice

Human Rights as Practices

AvFuyuki Kurasawa

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

Human rights have been generally understood as juridical products, organizational outcomes or abstract principles that are realized through formal means such as passing laws, creating institutions or formulating ideals. In this book, Fuyuki Kurasawa argues that we must reverse this 'top-down' focus by examining how groups and persons struggling against global injustices construct and enact human rights through five transnational forms of ethico-political practice: bearing witness, forgiveness, foresight, aid and solidarity. From these, he develops a new perspective highlighting the difficult social labour that constitutes the substance of what global justice is and ought to be, thereby reframing the terms of debates about human rights and providing the outlines of a critical cosmopolitanism centred around emancipatory struggles for an alternative globalization.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-10-11
Mått:153 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt:416 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Antal sidor:258
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521673914
Utmärkelser:Best book award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Global Division 2009

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Fuyuki Kurasawa is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, Canada, Faculty Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University and Co-President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociological Theory. He is the author of The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity (2004).

Recensioner i media

'Human rights have come to the forefront of attention in both political theory and public practice. But too often the treatment in theory has been so abstract it doesn't inform practice as it might - and it doesn't learn from practice as it should. Fuyuki Kurasawa's new book helps to bridge this divide, addressing key questions such as the meaning of bearing witness, the search for foresight, the ways in which forgiveness and aid work, and the ideal of transnational solidarity. His voice is both humane and scholarly; his text will be helpful to readers across a range of disciplines.' Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Theorizing the work of global justice; 1. A message in a bottle: on bearing witness; 2. The healing of wounds: on forgiveness; 3. Cautionary tales: on foresight; 4. The stranger's keeper: on aid; 5. Cosmopolitanism from below: on solidarity; Conclusion. Enacting a critical cosmopolitanism.