The Divided World: Human Rights and Its Violence
Author:   Randall Williams
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:  

9780816665419


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   24 May 2010
Format:   Hardback
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The Divided World: Human Rights and Its Violence


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Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, Randall Williams shows how the concept of human rights—often taken for granted as a force for good in the world—corresponds directly with U.S. imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more recently, M. Jacqui Alexander and China Miéville, Williams insists on a reckoning of human rights with the violence of colonial modernity.

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Author:   Randall Williams
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780816665419


ISBN 10:   0816665419
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   24 May 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, Introduction: The International Division of Humanity, 1. Conscience Denied: Amnesty International and the Anti-Revolution of the 1960s, 2. Who Claims Modernity? The International Frame of Sexual Recognition, 3. A Duty to Intervene: On the Cinematic Constitution of Subjects for Empire in Hotel Rwanda and Caché, 4. Expiation for the Dispossessed: Truth Commissions, Testimonios, and Tyrannicide, 5. Combat Theory: Anti-Imperialist Analytics since FanonCoda: The Transition from Dumb to Smart Power, Notes, Index

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Randall Williams is an instructor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. He has been involved with various social movements from ACT UP to the recently formed Teachers Against Occupation.

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