Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics

by M. Anne Brown and Anne Brown

This book argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architecture of rights, it casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of suffering. Seen in this context, the predominant Western models of rights generate a substantial but also problematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719063930
• ISBN13: 9780719063930
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"