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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... increasingly vague. This study of rights explores this ambiguity between the claims of citizens and the ''rights of man.'' Understanding the relationship between citizenship and human rights is key to understanding the precariousness of ...
... increasingly, rights of social and geographical mobility. This was one crucial lesson of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. These are what we might call pragmatic arguments against relativism, but Ignatieff concludes his essay on ...
... increasingly impersonal. The transformation of the emotions is a significant feature of this history. In his discussion of ''changes in aggressiveness,'' Elias (2000, 161–62) provides an important account of how violent passions in the ...
... increasingly regulated by social norms that emphasized self-restraint and personal discipline. The meaning of ''civilization'' in Elias's theory refers to the cultivation of individual moral restraint and the containment of aggression ...
... increasingly integrated economically and diplomatically. At the same time, there has been an increase in local conflicts between rebel forces and states, which often involve ethnic cleansing and genocide. Conflicts in the former ...
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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 |