Reinventing Human Rights

Mark Goodale

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781503631014
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice.

Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo—Mark Goodale offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal.

Goodale's proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the "practice of human rights." Rather than a priori claims to universality, he calls for a working theory of human rights defined by "translocality, " a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity.

This book will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree—for many different reasons—that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Series Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Human Rights against the Maelstroms
• 2. Human Rights, Capitalism, and the Ends of Economic Life
• 3. Remaking Sovereignty in the Image of Human Rights
• 4. Human Rights beyond the Rule of Law
• 5. Decolonizing Human Rights
• 6. Human Rights Otherwise
• 7. The Subjects of Human Rights
• 8. Human Rights in a G20 World
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index
• Series List