Kathryn McNeilly, Human rights and radical social transformation: futurity, alterity, power [Review]

Grear, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-1370 2018. Kathryn McNeilly, Human rights and radical social transformation: futurity, alterity, power [Review]. Human Rights Quarterly 40 (3) , pp. 710-716. 10.1353/hrq.2018.0039

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Abstract

Kathryn McNeilly’s book, Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation: Futurity, Alterity, Power, offers extended reflection upon the 'not yet' of human rights and its promise for radical politics—a promise, which like the utopian end explored by Douzinas, is a restless, impossible principle of hope. McNeilly constructs an account of human rights emphasizing the persistence and significance of their not yet—a performative, agonistic leaning-forwardness—in which human rights are to be understood as a ceaseless grappling with the political, expressed through ineradicable tensions between power, vulnerability and alterity.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
ISSN:	0275-0392
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Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 June 2018
Date of Acceptance:	11 March 2018
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2024 17:23
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/112755

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