FYSM 1300 Lecture 7: Week 7
4 Mar 2017
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Week 7 - october 26 - hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) rights a(cid:374)d ideology: politics a(cid:374)d (cid:862)a(cid:374)ti- politics(cid:863) Wendy brown, the most we can hope for human rights and the politics of fatalism- tanvir. No effective project produces only the consequences it aims to produce. Ignatia claims, but can themselves be tactics and vehicles of governance and domination. What they amount to is a form of empowerment that fully equates empowerment with liberal individualism: ignatia claims that human rights provide individuals with agency which allows them to protect themselves against injustice. However brown critiques that human rights just trade one form of subjection for another. An intervention by an external agent or set of institutions that promises to protect individuals from abusive state power in part by replacing that power. Bartholomew and break spear, human rights as swords of empire - David kennedy, the international human rights movement: part of the.
