Emma Larking
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Larking |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Larking |
| SIGNATURE | LARKING E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3193-1022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Human Rights State
The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations. By Benjamin Gregg (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). pp.viii + 283. US$59.95 (hb)
Mobilising for food sovereignty
This article considers the role played by the language of human rights in a global campaign for food sovereignty. Led initially by the international peasants’ movement, Vía Campesina, the campaign opposes the globalisation of agricultural markets and neoliberal interventions in food production. Alongside other strategies, the campaign makes creative use of human rights and also seeks their institutionalisation in a UN Declaration on the rights of…
Human Rights Rituals
The role played by ritual in the field of human rights has not been widely remarked or analysed. Here I argue that the triumph of human rights as the predominant language for making social justice claims in the international sphere is partly attributable to the power of certain linguistic and embodied rituals. I suggest that these rituals veil the material factors at stake when human rights are invoked internationally, obscuring the relationship …
Controlling Irregular Migration in the Asia‐Pacific
Australia invests heavily throughout the Asia‐Pacific region in mechanisms to control irregular people movements. Information has been leaked about conditions in the notorious detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island, and aspects of the Bali Process are well known and publicised, but the nature and extent of much of Australia's investment have not been widely aired or scrutinised. This article canvasses the range of Australia's engagement in i…
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review is an intriguing and ambitious development in human rights monitoring which breaks new ground by engaging all 193 members of the United Nations. This book provides the first sustained analysis of the Review and explains how the Review functions within the architecture of the United Nations. It draws on socio-legal scholarship and the insights of human rights practitioners with direct experience of the Review in order…
Irregular immigrants in Australia and the United States — Rights, realities, and political mobilization
This article considers the gap between the universal promise of human rights and the reality of the rights enjoyed by irregular immigrants in liberal democracies such as Australia and the United States. Against the idea that stronger international rights enforcement mechanisms will automatically improve the position of irregular immigrants, it argues that international law currently provides a warrant for the way in which countries like Australia…
Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights
Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights, but they also spend billions fortifying their borders, detaining unauthorised immigrants, and policing migration. Meanwhile, public debate over the West's obligations to unauthorised immigrants is passionate, vitriolic, and divisive. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights combines philosophical, his…
Human rights, the right to have rights, and life beyond the pale of the law
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt is famously scathing of the societies established between World Wars I and II to advocate on behalf of refugees and advance the protection of human rights. In Arendt s view, all societies formed for the protection of the Rights of Man showed an uncanny similarity in language and composition to that of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals . The human rights they invoked were nothing mo…
Rights Protection – Comparative Perspectives
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBrian GalliganBrian Galligan is a Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Melbourne.Emma LarkingEmma Larking is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at The University of Melbourne and worked with Brian Galligan and Dr John Chesterman on the Australian Research Council funded project, ‘The Politics of Rights.’ This special issue …
Human rights and the principle of sovereignty
The coercive power of the state in liberal democracies is justified largely by the claim that the state is the best mechanism for the protection of individual rights. Individual rights are, in turn, founded on assumptions about universal freedom and equality. But if this is the case, how can liberal states disavow the freedom and equality of people outside their borders? Most try not to, for example, by ratifying international instruments such as…
Controlling Irregular Migration in the Asia‐Pacific
Australia invests heavily throughout the Asia‐Pacific region in mechanisms to control irregular people movements. Information has been leaked about conditions in the notorious detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island, and aspects of the Bali Process are well known and publicised, but the nature and extent of much of Australia's investment have not been widely aired or scrutinised. This article canvasses the range of Australia's engagement in i…
Irregular immigrants in Australia and the United States — Rights, realities, and political mobilization
This article considers the gap between the universal promise of human rights and the reality of the rights enjoyed by irregular immigrants in liberal democracies such as Australia and the United States. Against the idea that stronger international rights enforcement mechanisms will automatically improve the position of irregular immigrants, it argues that international law currently provides a warrant for the way in which countries like Australia…
Human Rights Rituals
The role played by ritual in the field of human rights has not been widely remarked or analysed. Here I argue that the triumph of human rights as the predominant language for making social justice claims in the international sphere is partly attributable to the power of certain linguistic and embodied rituals. I suggest that these rituals veil the material factors at stake when human rights are invoked internationally, obscuring the relationship …
Human rights and the principle of sovereignty
The coercive power of the state in liberal democracies is justified largely by the claim that the state is the best mechanism for the protection of individual rights. Individual rights are, in turn, founded on assumptions about universal freedom and equality. But if this is the case, how can liberal states disavow the freedom and equality of people outside their borders? Most try not to, for example, by ratifying international instruments such as…
Rights Protection – Comparative Perspectives
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBrian GalliganBrian Galligan is a Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Melbourne.Emma LarkingEmma Larking is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at The University of Melbourne and worked with Brian Galligan and Dr John Chesterman on the Australian Research Council funded project, ‘The Politics of Rights.’ This special issue …
Human rights, the right to have rights, and life beyond the pale of the law
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt is famously scathing of the societies established between World Wars I and II to advocate on behalf of refugees and advance the protection of human rights. In Arendt s view, all societies formed for the protection of the Rights of Man showed an uncanny similarity in language and composition to that of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals . The human rights they invoked were nothing mo…
Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights
Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights, but they also spend billions fortifying their borders, detaining unauthorised immigrants, and policing migration. Meanwhile, public debate over the West's obligations to unauthorised immigrants is passionate, vitriolic, and divisive. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights combines philosophical, his…
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review is an intriguing and ambitious development in human rights monitoring which breaks new ground by engaging all 193 members of the United Nations. This book provides the first sustained analysis of the Review and explains how the Review functions within the architecture of the United Nations. It draws on socio-legal scholarship and the insights of human rights practitioners with direct experience of the Review in order…
Irregular immigrants in Australia and the United States — Rights, realities, and political mobilization
This article considers the gap between the universal promise of human rights and the reality of the rights enjoyed by irregular immigrants in liberal democracies such as Australia and the United States. Against the idea that stronger international rights enforcement mechanisms will automatically improve the position of irregular immigrants, it argues that international law currently provides a warrant for the way in which countries like Australia…
The Human Rights State
The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations. By Benjamin Gregg (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). pp.viii + 283. US$59.95 (hb)
Mobilising for food sovereignty
This article considers the role played by the language of human rights in a global campaign for food sovereignty. Led initially by the international peasants’ movement, Vía Campesina, the campaign opposes the globalisation of agricultural markets and neoliberal interventions in food production. Alongside other strategies, the campaign makes creative use of human rights and also seeks their institutionalisation in a UN Declaration on the rights of…
Human Rights Rituals
The role played by ritual in the field of human rights has not been widely remarked or analysed. Here I argue that the triumph of human rights as the predominant language for making social justice claims in the international sphere is partly attributable to the power of certain linguistic and embodied rituals. I suggest that these rituals veil the material factors at stake when human rights are invoked internationally, obscuring the relationship …
Controlling Irregular Migration in the Asia‐Pacific
Australia invests heavily throughout the Asia‐Pacific region in mechanisms to control irregular people movements. Information has been leaked about conditions in the notorious detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island, and aspects of the Bali Process are well known and publicised, but the nature and extent of much of Australia's investment have not been widely aired or scrutinised. This article canvasses the range of Australia's engagement in i…
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