... Human Rights: A Response to Joseph Massad Arno Schmitt J oseph Massad’s article “Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the J Arab World” (Public Culture 14 [spring 2002]: 361–85) is a strange concoc- tion. Although ostensibly...

....” Roger Casement’s Global English: From Human Rights to the Homoerotic Patrick Mullen One of the most controversial figures of the Irish nationalist pantheon, Roger O Casement retains his allure and glamour nearly...

...Tobias Kelly The category of conscience has played a key role in the history of human rights. However, since a high point in the decades after the Second World War, much of the human rights movement appears to have become relatively less interested in the issue. Instead, claims of conscience have...

...Kate Nash In this article the author explores what feature-length films of the kind that are shown in human rights film festivals contribute to human rights culture. Analyzing films that feature victims (including, in some detail, Sonita ) and perpetrators (notably, The Act of Killing ), the author...

...Bruce Robbins Copyright © 1997 by The University of Chicago 1997 Sad Stories in the International Public Sphere: Richard Rorty on Culture and Human Rights Bruce Robbins 1n 1994...

...Pheng Cheah Copyright © 1997 by The University of Chicago 1997 Posit(ion)ing Human Rights in the Current Global Conjuncture Pheng Cheah 1n the current conjuncture of global capitalism, the deployment...

...Andrew Herscher In the early 2000s, human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) began to avail themselves of newly commercialized satellite imagery in their advocacy efforts. In human rights contexts, satellite imaging vastly extends capacities to detect and respond to abuses of human rights...

... offers potential flightlines toward a post-property future—one in which housing is positioned as a basic human right—but also a generative critique of the home as a site of racialized and gendered subject formation. Indeed, through their work, the reconception of kinship formation and territorial...

...Lucia Hulsether When the Coca-Cola Company bankrolled a new National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR), it was reviving a century-long reformation: the project to produce cosmopolitan consumer citizenship as normative humanity and to incarnate global markets as beloved community. This essay...

... the gated community, exposing a fierce contest between elite and poor citizens over legitimate methods of tax collection and the social logics of indebtedness. The essay shows how discourses emblematic of the postdictatorship and post–financial crisis periods—human rights on the one hand and welfare...

...Faisal Devji Unlike the pacifists and humanitarians with whom he is routinely associated, Gandhi was critical of human rights as a legal and political project. Indeed, he attributed modern violence precisely to the fact that life had become an absolute value, something that could therefore...

... as an instantiation of the tension between authority, visuality, and pain. Through a detailed analysis of prisoner testimonials, the policy manual Medical Management of Detainees on Hunger Strike , and a video project by human rights organization Reprieve featuring artist Yasiin Bey simulating the “proper” techniques...

...Ash Amin This article revisits the canon that imagines urban public space as a site of civic and political formation, based on active subjects. In contrast, the article explores the implications of thinking the urban landscape as sentient in its own right, as a hum of interacting humans...

... Jacqueline Bhabha ‘i;lefugees crystallize the conflict between two founding principles of modern society: the belief in universal human rights which inhere in all indi- viduals by virtue of their common human dignity, and the sovereignty of nation states. Legal systems - both national...

...: Paidos. ———. 1999 . World risk society . Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press. Beijing Declaration. [1995] 1997 . In The human rights reader , edited by Micheline R. Ishay. New York:Routledge. Braudel, Fernand. 1979 . Afterthoughts on material civilization and capitalism . Baltimore, Md.: Johns...

... the occupation. The first set of essays in the issue pick up two main themes that run through Sabbagh’s work: human rights and borders. Tobias Kelly seeks to return the category of conscience to human rights discourse, in the process reclaiming the concept from its nearly exclusive association...

...) of Culture and Rights (2001), and editor(with Jonathan Mitchell) of Human Rights in Global Perspective (2003). Borneman, John. 1997 . Settling accounts:Violence, justice, and accountability in postsocialist Europe . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Hamber, Brandon, and Richard...