The Aporia of Rights Explorations in citizenship in the era of human rights [Paperback]

The Aporia of Rightsis an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with the politics of human rights.

Anna Yeatmanis a Professorial Fellow in the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. She is a political and social theorist who also has practical experience in public policy.

Peg Birminghamis Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, USA. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (2006) and co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) ofDissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics(1995).

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 IntroductionAnna Yeatman
Chapter 2 Perplexities of the Rights of Man: Arendt on the Aporias of Human RightsAyten G?ndogdu
Chapter 3 The Multivocity of Human Rights DiscourseJeff Malpas
Chapter 4 Neither Here Nor There: The Conceptual Paradoxes of Immigrant and Asylee ResistanceRobert W. Glover
Chapter 5 Acts of Emancipation: Marx, Bauer, and The Jewish QuestionCharles Barbour
Chapter 6 Must democratic rights serve the rights-bearer? The right to vote of people with severe cognitive impairmentsLudvig Beckman
Chapter 7 Performing Human Rights: the meaning of rights in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human RightsAnthony J. Langlois
Chapter 8 The politics of indigenous human rights in the era of settler state citizenship: Legacies of the nexus between sovereignty, human rights and citizenshipDanielle Celermajer
Chapter 9 Revolutionary Declarations: The State of Right and the Right of OppositionPeg Birmingham
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