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The Aporia of Rights: Explorations in Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights - Softcover

 
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Synopsis

The Aporia of Rights is 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.

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About the Authors

Peg Birmingham is 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) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (1995).

Anna Yeatman is 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. Her many publications include Postmodern Revisionings of the Political (2014), Individualiztion and the Delivery of Welfare Services (2009) and Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats (1990).

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