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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... individual or body of men'' could be entitled to ''any authority which is not expressly derived from it.'' While human rights are said to be innate and inalienable, social rights are created by states. These two contrasted ideas—the ...
... individuals by virtue of being human—and as a consequence of their shared vulnerability. Human rights are not necessarily connected to duties and they are not contributory. There is, for example, no corresponding system of taxation ...
... individual agency. These negative freedoms were inscribed in the foundational rights of the Declaration, and Berlin's version of liberalism became part of the West's ideological framework during the Cold War against communism. Communism ...
... individual security. Rights of membership are important, but the right to leave a group may be more significant ... individual responsibilities, and they describe in minimal terms what is required for an individual to be a moral agent of ...
... individual rights are prior to social and economic rights. Ignatieff concludes his second essay (2001, 95) with the ... individuals in an existential context of shared experiences of pain and humiliation. This capacity for suffering ...
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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 |