Governing (Through) Rights

By Bal Sokhi-Bulley

Book Overview

Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse that is itself managed through governing tactics and techniques - hence governing (through) rights. Part I examines the 'problem of government' (through) rights. The opening chapter describes governmentality as a methodology that is then used to interrogate the relationship between rights and governance in three contexts: the international, regional and local.

In Part II, on resisting government (through) rights, the book also asks what counter-conducts are possible using rights language (questioning rioting as resistance), and whether counter-conduct can be read as an ethos of the political, rights-bearing subject and as a new ethical right. Thus, the book bridges a divide between critical theory (ie Foucauldian understandings of power as governmentality) and human rights law.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509926828
• ISBN13: 9781509926824
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"