Human Rights and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18950488
AutoresAnthony Woodiwiss (Department of Sociology at City University - London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen19
Número1-2
Páginas139-155
Fecha de publicación2002-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/026327640201900107
OpenAlexW2121874154
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas15

The article outlines the diverse willed and unwilled developments which have attenuated international human rights discourse so that it still cannot be used to hold governments to account for their failures to respect the economic and social rights of their citizens. These developments range from geopolitical manoeuvres, through changed modes of enunciation (that is, the displacement of political theory by law as the source of human rights language), to the absence of appropriate governmentalist techniques for measuring economic and social compliance. It then questions and counters the doctrine of `justiciability' (i.e. the claim that only civil and political rights are legally enforceable) that is the discursive node of this structure of impotence. It concludes by proposing a strategy for the development of a more truly cosmopolitan international human rights discourse

Cosmopolitanism · Cultural rights · Doctrine · Fundamental rights · Geopolitics · Human rights · International human rights law · Justiciability · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Right to property · Social rights · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law