The divided world : human rights and its violence /

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Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, this book shows how the concept of human rights - often taken for granted as a force for good in the world - corresponds directly with U.S. imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more recently...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Randall, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Human rights.
Political violence.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Violence politique.
terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The international division of humanity
  • Conscience denied : Amnesty International and the antirevolution of the 1960s
  • Who claims modernity? : the international frame of sexual recognition
  • A duty to intervene : on the cinematic constitution of subjects for empire in Hotel Rwanda and Caché
  • Expiation for the dispossessed : truth commissions, testimonios, and tyrannicide
  • Combat theory : anti-imperialist analytics since Fanon
  • Coda : the transition from dumb to smart power.

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