TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown, Anne
AB  - This book, newly available in paperback, argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architecture of rights, it casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of suffering. Seen in this context, the predominant Western models of rights generate a substantial but also problematic and not always emancipatory array of practices. These models are far from answering the questions about the nature of political community that are raised by the systemic infliction of suffering. Rather than a simple message from 'us' to 'them', then, rights promotion is a long and difficult conversation about the relationship between political organisations and suffering. Three case studies are explored - the Tiananmen Square massacre, East Timor's violent modern history and the circumstances of indigenous Australians. The purpose of these discussions is not to elaborate on a new theory of rights, but to work towards rights practices that are more responsive to the spectrum of injury that we inflict and endure. The book is a valuable and innovative contribution to rights debates for students of international politics, political theory, and conflict resolution, as well as for those engaged in the pursuit of human rights.
DO  - 10.7228/manchester/9780719061059.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 341343
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 133167523
KW  - timor
KW  - politics
KW  - tiananmen
KW  - amnesty
KW  - international
KW  - East Timor
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Liberalism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/8e4a23d5-1882-4835-adc7-9422ae0a6b0c/341343.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/35046
PB  - Manchester University Press
PY  - 2002
SN  - 9780719061059
TI  - Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politicsnull
ER  - 
