Monday, October 7, 2013

Special Issue: Human Rights between Past and Future

The latest issue of Qui Parle (Vol. 22, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2013) focuses on "Human Rights between Past and Future." Contents include:
  • Zachary Manfredi, Recent Histories and Uncertain Futures: Contemporary Critiques of International Human Rights and Humanitarianism
  • Didier Fassin, The Predicament of Humanitarianism
  • Political Ends, Historical Overtures: A Discussion of Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia
    • Jason Frank, Human Rights in History Human Rights Regimes and The Last Utopia
    • Pheng Cheah, Human Rights and the Material Making of Humanity: A Response to Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia
    • Antony Anghie, Whose Utopia?: Human Rights, Development, and the Third World
    • Seyla Benhabib, Moving beyond False Binarisms: On Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia
    • Samuel Moyn, The Continuing Perplexities of Human Rights
  • Claude Lefort & Jesse Cordes Selbin, International Law, Human Rights, and Politics
  • Nikita Dhawan, Coercive Cosmopolitanism and Impossible Solidarities
  • Eyal Weizman & Zachary Manfredi, “From Figure to Ground”: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman on the Politics of The Humanitarian Present