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Redirecting Human Rights
Anna Grear
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Description for Redirecting Human Rights
Hardback. Redirecting Human Rights presents a theoretical reading of the idea of corporate human rights and proposes that embodied vulnerability should be understood to be the foundation of human rights. Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Against the backdrop of globalization and mounting evidence of the corporate subversion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, Anna Grear interrogates the complex tendencies within law that are implicated in the emergence of 'corporate humanity'. Grear presents a critical account of legal subjectivity, linking it with law's intimate relationship with liberal capitalism in order to suggest law's special receptivity to the corporate form. She argues that in the field of human rights law, particularly within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, human embodied vulnerability should be understood as the foundation of human rights and as a key ... Read more
Against the backdrop of globalization and mounting evidence of the corporate subversion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, Anna Grear interrogates the complex tendencies within law that are implicated in the emergence of 'corporate humanity'. Grear presents a critical account of legal subjectivity, linking it with law's intimate relationship with liberal capitalism in order to suggest law's special receptivity to the corporate form. She argues that in the field of human rights law, particularly within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, human embodied vulnerability should be understood as the foundation of human rights and as a key ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Series
Global Ethics
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230542228
SKU
V9780230542228
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About Anna Grear
ANNA GREAR is Senior Lecturer in Law at Bristol Law School, UWE, UK. She is Head of the International Law and Human Rights Research Unit, part of the Centre for Legal Research at UWE. She is also the founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.
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