Vulnerability and Human RightsPenn State Press, 29 oct. 2015 - 160 pagini The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights. Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion. |
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Bryan S. Turner. VULNERABILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ESSAYS ON HUMAN RIGHTS EDITED BY THOMAS CUSHMAN This series.
Bryan S. Turner. ESSAYS ON. HUMAN. RIGHTS. EDITED BY THOMAS CUSHMAN This series features important new works by leading figures in the interdisciplinary field of human rights. Books in the series present ... HUMAN RIGHTS Library of Congress.
... human rights / by Bryan S. Turner. p. — (Essays on human rights) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-271-02923-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Human rights—Philosophy. cm. to my children in the hope that their rights will. I ...
... human rights. I am grateful to the students who took the Part 11B paper ''Soc 6'' and who, through their supervision papers, helped me formulate this thesis more clearly. My special thanks go to Darin Weinberg, who taught the paper with ...
... Human Rights 2, no. 2, a special issue on frailty and rights; ''Biology, Vulnerability, and Politics,'' in Debating Biology, ed. Simon J. Williams, Lynda Birke, and Gillian A. Bendelow (London: Routledge, 2003), 271–82; and ...
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3 Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory | 45 |
4 Reproductive and Sexual Rights | 69 |
5 Rights of Impairment and Disability | 89 |
6 Rights of the Body | 111 |
7 Old and New Xenophobia | 129 |
References | 143 |
Index | 151 |
Back Cover | 157 |