Tag: humanitarianism

Human Rights Without Humanism

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

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.

The Gift of Giving

Giving may well usurp development to become the humanitarian ethos of our time. By Erica Bornstein

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