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03409aam a2200373 i 4500 001 08019AB89C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 190326s2019 sz b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 3030138747 020 $a 9783030138745 020 $a 3030138712 020 $a 9783030138714 035 $a (OCoLC)1091644811 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d NUI $d COD $d YDX $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a JC571 C5538x 2019 100 1 $a Chowdhury, Kanishka, $d 1963- $e author. 245 10 $a Human rights discourse in the post-9/11 age / $c Kanishka Chowdhury. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c [2019] 300 $a xv, 235 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Human rights interventions 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading Rights Discourse in a Transnational Economy; Human Rights Discourse in Our Time; Constructing Human Rights Discourse; Human Rights Discourse and Wealth Accumulation; Overview of the Argument; Works Cited; Chapter 2 Historicizing Rights Discourse Post-9/11; Introduction; Decolonization and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); Fetishizing the Politics of Development in the Declarations of the 1990s; The Post-9/11 Language of Rights: A Critical Consideration; Neoliberalism and Rights Discourse; Works Cited 505 8 $a Chapter 3 Workers' Rights, Exploitation, and the Transactional Moment introduction; Oppression and Exploitation: Some Differences; Marx's Analysis of the Injustice of Wage Labor; Unsettling the Morality of Rights and Regulations; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 4 Gender Rights and the Politics of Empowerment; Introduction; Empowerment and Neoliberalism; NGOs and the Construction of "Civil Society"; Microcredit: Empowerment and Debt; Nirantar, Gender Rights, and the Challenges of Transformative Work; Conclusion; Works Cited 505 8 $a Chapter 5 "Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us": Rights Discourse, the State, and Toxic Capitalism in Indra Sinha's Animal's People introduction; The State and the Struggle for Rights; Contextualizing Animal's People in Neoliberal Times; The Bhopal Disaster and Its Aftermath; Literature and the Language of Human Rights; "Hope Is Not a Fiction": Interrogating Rights Discourse in Indra Sinha's Animal's People; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 6 Refugees' Rights: Capital, OÌscar MartiÌnez's The Beast, Gianfranco Rosi's Fuocoammare, and the "Problem" of the Surplus Population; Introduction 505 8 $a Seeking Refuge in a Global Context OÌscar MartiÌnez's The Beast: Inciting Rage, Generating Respect; "Beyond the Reach of Political Discourse": Gianfranco Rosi's Fuocoammare; The "Problem" of the Surplus Population; Designating "Crisis," Fixing Borders; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 7 Conclusion; What Then, If Not Human Rights?; Index 650 0 $a Human rights. 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Chowdhury, Kanishka, 1963- $t Human rights discourse in the post-9/11 age. $d Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019] $z 9783030138721 $w (OCoLC)1090991152 830 0 $a Human rights interventions 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103014728.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318013041.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=08019AB89C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search