Tag: Human Rights

Human Rights Without Humanism

Why does Foucault—an avowed anti-humanist—turn to “rights” in his later works?

Partial Citizens

A global perspective on care work.

LSA Confidential

On the joys of publishing law and society books—plus a few editorial secrets.

Genocide and the Social Death of Children

Non-lethal elements of genocide are too often dismissed.

Groundwork

Interpreting human rights among the dead and disappeared.

Why Dr. King Opposed the Atomic Bomb

On the intersections of civil rights, anticolonialism, and nuclear disarmament.

Our Top 5 Blog Posts from 2014

It’s not even New Year’s and we’re already nostalgic.

Human Rights: A Fragile Hegemony

Human rights, as popularly conceived, have a troubling genealogy. By Boaventura de Sousa Santos

On the Rise and Fall of Human Rights

From Arendt, to Douglass, to Palestine—what does it mean to have a “right to rights”? By Mark Goodale

Russia’s Tomorrow, Today

As the space for debate in Moscow shrinks, the options for the country’s future look ever narrower. By Sam Greene