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What´s Wrong with Rights?: Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations
Radha D´souza
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Description for What´s Wrong with Rights?: Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations
Paperback. Critique of liberal rights and their place in social movement strategy from a radical Marxist perspective Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPV; JPW; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135. .
Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World, their experiences of national liberation and socialism and their aspirations for emancipation and freedom. Social movements demand rights to remedy wrongs and injustices in society. But why do organisations like the World Bank and IMF, the G7 states and the World Economic Forum want to promote rights? Activists and activist scholars are ... Read more
Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World, their experiences of national liberation and socialism and their aspirations for emancipation and freedom. Social movements demand rights to remedy wrongs and injustices in society. But why do organisations like the World Bank and IMF, the G7 states and the World Economic Forum want to promote rights? Activists and activist scholars are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745335414
SKU
V9780745335414
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About Radha D´souza
Radha D'Souza teaches law at the University of Westminster, London. She is a social justice activist, a writer, critic and commentator. She is author of What's Wrong with Rights? (Pluto, 2018) and Interstate Disputes Over Krishna Waters (Orient Longman, 2006) and works with the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) in the UK.
Reviews for What´s Wrong with Rights?: Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations
'This persuasively written book helps us to trace the location of rights in capitalism and imperialism'
Shahrzad Mojab, Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, University of Toronto, and co-author of Revolutionary Learning (Pluto, 2017) 'A brilliant interrogation of the powerful hold the concept of rights has over social movements ... An absolute must read for ... Read more
Shahrzad Mojab, Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, University of Toronto, and co-author of Revolutionary Learning (Pluto, 2017) 'A brilliant interrogation of the powerful hold the concept of rights has over social movements ... An absolute must read for ... Read more