Anthony J Langlois
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony J Langlois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony J |
| FAMILY NAME | Langlois |
| SIGNATURE | LANGLOIS A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3276-4086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Culture wars and the family in Southeast Asia
This article introduces a special section that explores the significant changes observed over the last decade on LGBT matters in Southeast Asia. The special section examines these developments through the lens of LGBT social movements, with attention paid to human rights approaches and the apparent resurgence of notions such as Asian values, family values and traditional values. This article outlines the focus of the special section and briefly i…
Ethics amid crises
Ethical reflection has always considered how it is we should live together.That task must now be addressed amid a time of unprecedented and concatenating global crises.Efforts to comprehend the situation have generated new analytical approaches to crisis analysis -among them, the polycrisis.Missing from much of this work however is critical engagement with the normative dimensions of the various crises and reflection on the ethical frames require…
LGBT rights claiming and political participation in Southeast Asia
In this paper, I read the creation of the ASEAN human rights regime, the development of SOGIESC rights claiming (where this denotes sexual orientation, gender identity & expression, and sex characteristics), and the social conflict associated with homophobia and the backlash to LGBT rights through modes of participation analysis. This framework is used to interpret the different uses of rights and values-denominated language and institutions in t…
Human rights in Southeast Asia
This piece introduces a collection of essays that examine various aspects of the ASEAN human rights regime, as we recognize decadal anniversaries for its two key foundational institutions: the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (ACIHR), established in 2009, and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD), promulgated in 2012. This introduction considers the aspiration of the regime to promote and protect human rights and the perform…
Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world
Discussions about the human rights of LGBTIQ people tend to centre around two vastly different issues, namely, marriage equality and the criminalisation of same-sex sexual conduct. However, looking only at these two high-profile issues ignores the many pressing concerns facing LGBTIQ people around the world. This article identifies and analyses eight other human rights issues that urgently need addressing, in order to respect the rights of LGBTIQ…
Making LGBT Rights into Human Rights
This chapter commences by examining the status LGBT rights have achieved within the United Nations (UN) human rights system and reviews some key aspects of their trajectory. It considers how best to interpret the varying roles LGBT rights can play in the international system, given their new status, with a critical reading of Hillary Clinton’s famous and much lauded “gay rights are human rights” speech to the UN General Assembly in 2011. It then …
LGBT Rights in Southeast Asia
Although in recent years many leading international actors, including the UN and European Union, have endorsed the idea that "LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] rights are human rights and human rights are LGBT rights" (Clinton, 2011), at the regional and national levels support is still far from guaranteed. The result is that while globally there has been significant progress in recognising the rights of LGBT people, at times assisted…
Queer rights
Community, identity, orientation
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) escalated its community building project significantly over the last decade, culminating in the launch of a reformed and substantially integrated ASEAN Community at the end of 2015. This article considers what might follow from this newly reformed and rhetorically people-focused version of ASEAN for matters of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression (SOGIE). In claiming to be peopl…
Human rights in Papua New Guinea
n\t\t\t\t\tAustralia has had a long, and at times tumultuous, relationship with our nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea. This relationship took a twist in late 2012, with the re-opening of the off-shore processing centre on Manus Island, and again in February 2014, when Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati was murdered by locals during a violent disturbance at the centre. The latest test of the strength and endurance of the relationship between PNG …
A Fake and a Hysteric
International Relations Theory and Global Sexuality Politics
Responding to efforts to ‘resurrect’ International Relations theory, this article suggests that the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) – and, more controversially perhaps, queer – global sexuality politics can bring new and transformative insights to the discipline. The study of this global sexuality politics is replete with ideas and approaches that can and should be integrated with IR theory. The article first considers the …
The Meanings of Human Rights
Special Issue
The issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights has loomed large in debates over human rights in recent years. In the domestic politics of Western countries, the headline issue h
Human Rights, “Orientation,” and Asean
This article will first look at the recent promulgation by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) of its ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD). This development follows on from ASEAN's official attempts since the development of the 2007 ASEAN Charter to promote a “people-oriented” ASEAN. This article explores the various criticisms that have arrived of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, and, in particular, considers the criticisms co…
Hard questions for human rights
The Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Institutionalising Human Rights in Southeast Asia." Australian Journal of International Affairs, 67(1), pp. 123–124
Human Rights in Crisis? A Critical Polemic Against Polemical Critics
Political Research and Human Research Ethics Committees
Is global justice a mirage
Chandran Kukathas has argued that ‘the political pursuit of global justice is not a worthy goal, and that our aims in establishing international legal and political institutions should be more modest’. In this article I will examine Kukathas’s argument, and argue in turn that he is mistaken to decry the efforts of those who press for global justice. Despite Kukathas’s professed support for international law and cosmopolitanism, and his concern ab…
Global Democracy and its Difficulties
Liberal theory and the history of liberal rule
Charity and Justice in Global Poverty Relief
Peter Singer's message in One World: The Ethics of Globalisation is that we must now consider the whole of the world and all of its peoples our home. The penultimate chapter ‘One Community’ argues that there are no good reasons why those individuals who have the means should not donate to organisations that address the problems of global poverty relief. This, however, is not an adequate ethic; it does not provide the foundation we need in order t…
Human Rights and the Defense of Liberal Democracy
In recent issues of the Journal of Religious Ethics (2006, 2007), David Little has defended the contemporary regime of international human rights against what he thinks of as the relativizing influences of the genealogical “just‐so” story told by Jeffrey Stout in his Democracy and Tradition (2004). I argue that Stout is correct about just‐so stories, and that Little does not go far enough in his reclamation of liberalism against Stout's “new trad…
Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Liberalism
It may be suggested that much of what goes by the name of contemporary cosmopolitanism is liberalism envisioned at the global level. It has become a common claim that the liberalism which provides the ethical content for cosmopolitanism is not tolerant enough of diverse ways of living; that liberalism’s claim to be a just referee between competing conceptions of the good life in fact hides a failure to treat diverse forms of life with an egalitar…
Special Issue
The issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights has loomed large in debates over human rights in recent years. In the domestic politics of Western countries, the headline issue h
Community, identity, orientation
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) escalated its community building project significantly over the last decade, culminating in the launch of a reformed and substantially integrated ASEAN Community at the end of 2015. This article considers what might follow from this newly reformed and rhetorically people-focused version of ASEAN for matters of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression (SOGIE). In claiming to be peopl…
International Relations Theory and Global Sexuality Politics
Responding to efforts to ‘resurrect’ International Relations theory, this article suggests that the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) – and, more controversially perhaps, queer – global sexuality politics can bring new and transformative insights to the discipline. The study of this global sexuality politics is replete with ideas and approaches that can and should be integrated with IR theory. The article first considers the …
Human Rights, “Orientation,” and Asean
This article will first look at the recent promulgation by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) of its ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD). This development follows on from ASEAN's official attempts since the development of the 2007 ASEAN Charter to promote a “people-oriented” ASEAN. This article explores the various criticisms that have arrived of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, and, in particular, considers the criticisms co…
Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world
Discussions about the human rights of LGBTIQ people tend to centre around two vastly different issues, namely, marriage equality and the criminalisation of same-sex sexual conduct. However, looking only at these two high-profile issues ignores the many pressing concerns facing LGBTIQ people around the world. This article identifies and analyses eight other human rights issues that urgently need addressing, in order to respect the rights of LGBTIQ…
Human Rights without Democracy? A Critique of the Separationist Thesis
The internationalization of democracy and human rights since World War II is an achievement of great proportions and significance. However, while human rights are regularly seen as universally applicable, not all see democracy as the most appropriate form of government for all peoples. Some proponents of human rights have therefore come to the conclusion that insisting on a link between human rights and democracy will be harmful for the further a…
Human rights in Southeast Asia
This piece introduces a collection of essays that examine various aspects of the ASEAN human rights regime, as we recognize decadal anniversaries for its two key foundational institutions: the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (ACIHR), established in 2009, and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD), promulgated in 2012. This introduction considers the aspiration of the regime to promote and protect human rights and the perform…
Political Research and Human Research Ethics Committees
Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Liberalism
It may be suggested that much of what goes by the name of contemporary cosmopolitanism is liberalism envisioned at the global level. It has become a common claim that the liberalism which provides the ethical content for cosmopolitanism is not tolerant enough of diverse ways of living; that liberalism’s claim to be a just referee between competing conceptions of the good life in fact hides a failure to treat diverse forms of life with an egalitar…
Queer rights
Charity and Justice in Global Poverty Relief
Peter Singer's message in One World: The Ethics of Globalisation is that we must now consider the whole of the world and all of its peoples our home. The penultimate chapter ‘One Community’ argues that there are no good reasons why those individuals who have the means should not donate to organisations that address the problems of global poverty relief. This, however, is not an adequate ethic; it does not provide the foundation we need in order t…
Republicanism and Liberalism
Republicanism has recently been defended by a variety of authors as a desirable alternative to liberalism. John W. Maynor is one of these. In his recent book, he has argued that republicanism is superior to liberalism, both in that its objectives are normatively preferable and because it is not beset with the same constitutive deficiencies as liberalism. However, his argument fails because the deficiencies he identifies in liberalism only apply t…
LGBT rights claiming and political participation in Southeast Asia
In this paper, I read the creation of the ASEAN human rights regime, the development of SOGIESC rights claiming (where this denotes sexual orientation, gender identity & expression, and sex characteristics), and the social conflict associated with homophobia and the backlash to LGBT rights through modes of participation analysis. This framework is used to interpret the different uses of rights and values-denominated language and institutions in t…
Human Rights in Crisis? A Critical Polemic Against Polemical Critics
Human Rights and Modern Liberalism
The idea of human rights has become one of the central moral notions of both the theory and practice of international politics. While its foundation and future in the practice of politics looks bright, it is an idea that still causes great trouble at the theoretical level. What are human rights? Why do we have them? To what should we attribute the authority of their moral claims? The theorist Michael Freeman has suggested one theory that by addre…
Ethics amid crises
Ethical reflection has always considered how it is we should live together.That task must now be addressed amid a time of unprecedented and concatenating global crises.Efforts to comprehend the situation have generated new analytical approaches to crisis analysis -among them, the polycrisis.Missing from much of this work however is critical engagement with the normative dimensions of the various crises and reflection on the ethical frames require…
Human rights in Papua New Guinea
n\t\t\t\t\tAustralia has had a long, and at times tumultuous, relationship with our nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea. This relationship took a twist in late 2012, with the re-opening of the off-shore processing centre on Manus Island, and again in February 2014, when Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati was murdered by locals during a violent disturbance at the centre. The latest test of the strength and endurance of the relationship between PNG …
The Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Institutionalising Human Rights in Southeast Asia." Australian Journal of International Affairs, 67(1), pp. 123–124
Liberal theory and the history of liberal rule
The narrative metaphysics of human rights
This article is about our understanding of an idea which has become one of the most internationally successful political doctrines of our day: the doctrine of human rights. This doctrine's popular success has often been attributed to its moral universalism, which flows from the claim that we have human rights simply by virtue of being human. It is my contention, however, that neither human rights, their claim to universalism, nor their link to ou…
The Elusive Ontology of Human Rights
What are human rights? After looking at the reasons why the ontology of human rights should not be reduced to the human rights legal infrastructure, and noting that the origin of human rights in “natural law” is no longer a widely persuasive answer, I shall consider a number of recently popular alternatives. My purpose in examining these is to argue that the “what” of human rights resides in philosophical claims about the value of the human perso…
Human rights and stranger narratives
Chatswood, NSW
Redescribing Human Rights
Redescribing Human Rights
Australian Politics, Human Rights and Moral Authenticity
This paper examines the relationship between some particular political problems with human rights in Australia and philosophical problems with theorising human rights. John Howard's disdain for the United Nations Human Rights Treaty System and Meg Lees discussion of IVF as a basic human right are used to explore the way in which the language or discourse of human rights is used in relation to public policy issues. It is argued that a greater conc…
The Politics of Justice and Human Rights
This book, first published in 2001, makes a major contribution to the theory and practice of human rights, engaging in particular with the 'Asian values' debates of the 1990s. It is especially concerned with the tension between a universal regime of human rights and its ability to accommodate diversity. Incorporating original fieldwork from Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the book also draws out the significance of Southeast Asian developments…
Human rights
The language of human rights, along with much else in international relations, presently exhibits the features of globalisation and fragmentation. Globalisation in that human rights is used throughout the world at many levels to discuss moral approval and condemnation. Fragmentation in that human rights means different things to different people, and may well be used in contradictory ways by agents of social change. Yet most advocates of human ri…
Human rights and stranger narratives
Chatswood, NSW
Human Rights and Modern Liberalism
The idea of human rights has become one of the central moral notions of both the theory and practice of international politics. While its foundation and future in the practice of politics looks bright, it is an idea that still causes great trouble at the theoretical level. What are human rights? Why do we have them? To what should we attribute the authority of their moral claims? The theorist Michael Freeman has suggested one theory that by addre…
Human Rights without Democracy? A Critique of the Separationist Thesis
The internationalization of democracy and human rights since World War II is an achievement of great proportions and significance. However, while human rights are regularly seen as universally applicable, not all see democracy as the most appropriate form of government for all peoples. Some proponents of human rights have therefore come to the conclusion that insisting on a link between human rights and democracy will be harmful for the further a…
The Elusive Ontology of Human Rights
What are human rights? After looking at the reasons why the ontology of human rights should not be reduced to the human rights legal infrastructure, and noting that the origin of human rights in “natural law” is no longer a widely persuasive answer, I shall consider a number of recently popular alternatives. My purpose in examining these is to argue that the “what” of human rights resides in philosophical claims about the value of the human perso…
Conceiving human rights without ontology
The narrative metaphysics of human rights
This article is about our understanding of an idea which has become one of the most internationally successful political doctrines of our day: the doctrine of human rights. This doctrine's popular success has often been attributed to its moral universalism, which flows from the claim that we have human rights simply by virtue of being human. It is my contention, however, that neither human rights, their claim to universalism, nor their link to ou…
Human Rights and the Defense of Liberal Democracy
In recent issues of the Journal of Religious Ethics (2006, 2007), David Little has defended the contemporary regime of international human rights against what he thinks of as the relativizing influences of the genealogical “just‐so” story told by Jeffrey Stout in his Democracy and Tradition (2004). I argue that Stout is correct about just‐so stories, and that Little does not go far enough in his reclamation of liberalism against Stout's “new trad…
Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Liberalism
It may be suggested that much of what goes by the name of contemporary cosmopolitanism is liberalism envisioned at the global level. It has become a common claim that the liberalism which provides the ethical content for cosmopolitanism is not tolerant enough of diverse ways of living; that liberalism’s claim to be a just referee between competing conceptions of the good life in fact hides a failure to treat diverse forms of life with an egalitar…
Reciprocity in the justification of rights
Seyla Benhabib argues that rather than aiding us in the resolution of global ethical problems, rights are of a piece with the broad ideational landscape which gives us these problems. Rights are no panacea. Might there, however, be ways of conceptualising rights that give us an advantage over some of these more intractable problems? Benhabib’s argument is that the virtues of discourse ethics provide such an advantage. This article, however, argue…
Republicanism and Liberalism
Republicanism has recently been defended by a variety of authors as a desirable alternative to liberalism. John W. Maynor is one of these. In his recent book, he has argued that republicanism is superior to liberalism, both in that its objectives are normatively preferable and because it is not beset with the same constitutive deficiencies as liberalism. However, his argument fails because the deficiencies he identifies in liberalism only apply t…
Global Democracy and its Difficulties
Liberal theory and the history of liberal rule
Charity and Justice in Global Poverty Relief
Peter Singer's message in One World: The Ethics of Globalisation is that we must now consider the whole of the world and all of its peoples our home. The penultimate chapter ‘One Community’ argues that there are no good reasons why those individuals who have the means should not donate to organisations that address the problems of global poverty relief. This, however, is not an adequate ethic; it does not provide the foundation we need in order t…
Political Research and Human Research Ethics Committees
Is global justice a mirage
Chandran Kukathas has argued that ‘the political pursuit of global justice is not a worthy goal, and that our aims in establishing international legal and political institutions should be more modest’. In this article I will examine Kukathas’s argument, and argue in turn that he is mistaken to decry the efforts of those who press for global justice. Despite Kukathas’s professed support for international law and cosmopolitanism, and his concern ab…
Human Rights in Crisis? A Critical Polemic Against Polemical Critics
The Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Institutionalising Human Rights in Southeast Asia." Australian Journal of International Affairs, 67(1), pp. 123–124
Special Issue
The issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights has loomed large in debates over human rights in recent years. In the domestic politics of Western countries, the headline issue h
Human Rights, “Orientation,” and Asean
This article will first look at the recent promulgation by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) of its ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD). This development follows on from ASEAN's official attempts since the development of the 2007 ASEAN Charter to promote a “people-oriented” ASEAN. This article explores the various criticisms that have arrived of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, and, in particular, considers the criticisms co…
Hard questions for human rights
Human rights in Papua New Guinea
n\t\t\t\t\tAustralia has had a long, and at times tumultuous, relationship with our nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea. This relationship took a twist in late 2012, with the re-opening of the off-shore processing centre on Manus Island, and again in February 2014, when Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati was murdered by locals during a violent disturbance at the centre. The latest test of the strength and endurance of the relationship between PNG …
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