Aporia of Rights

Anna Yeatman is a Professorial Fellow in the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. She is a political and social theorist who also has practical experience in public policy. Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, USA. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (2006) and co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (1995).

Tackling head on one of the most challenging, perplexing, and yet essential political relationships of our time, this collection is a must-read for those of us—political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, historians, lawyers—who work with, around and even against the aporetic connection between human rights and citizenship.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Introduction Anna YeatmanChapter 2 “Perplexities of the Rights of Man”: Arendt on the Aporias of Human Rights Ayten GündogduChapter 3 The Multivocity of Human Rights Discourse Jeff MalpasChapter 4 Neither Here Nor There: The Conceptual Paradoxes of Immigrant and Asylee Resistance Robert W. GloverChapter 5 Acts of Emancipation: Marx, Bauer, and “The Jewish Question” Charles BarbourChapter 6 Must democratic rights serve the rights-bearer? The right to vote of people with severe cognitive impairments Ludvig BeckmanChapter 7 Performing Human Rights: the meaning of rights in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Anthony J. LangloisChapter 8 The politics of indigenous human rights in the era of settler state citizenship: Legacies of the nexus between sovereignty, human rights and citizenship Danielle CelermajerChapter 9 Revolutionary Declarations: The State of Right and the Right of Opposition Peg BirminghamChapter 10 Humanising Militarism: Amnesty International and the Tactical Polyvalence of Human Rights Discourses Jessica WhyteChapter 11 Rival Doctrines – the politics of human rights Anna YeatmanChapter 12 Afterword Peg BirminghamConsolidated BibliographyIndex