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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... theories, or views on contemporary issues in human rights. The aim of the series is to provide short, accessible works that will present new and original thinking in crystalline form and in a language accessible to a wide range of ...
... Critical Recognition Theory 4 / Reproductive and Sexual Rights 5 / Rights of Impairment and Disability 6 / Rights of the Body 7 / Old and New Xenophobia References Index ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This extended essay is based upon a series of.
... theory, and the Master, Brian Johnson, was enthusiastic in his support of my project. Jack Barbalet and Malcolm Waters provided trenchant criticism of my initial attempt to develop a view about frailty and human rights. Their criticisms ...
... theories of human rights have often failed to consider the relationship between citizenship and human rights. Hans Joas in War and Modernity (2003, 23) has gone so far as to claim (correctly, in my view) that “the central conflict of ...
... theory simply asserts the importance of human agency and dignity rather than offering what we might call a “thick” theory of common humanity. Such minimalist theories have been clearly influenced by Isaiah Berlin (1969), whose liberal ...
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Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory | |
Reproductive and Sexual Rights | |
Rights of Impairment and Disability | |
Rights of the Body | |
Old and New Xenophobia | |
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Index | |