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While there is an emerging scholarship on the rejection of humanitarianism from postcolonial countries Sonja explores in her contribution how the Global North is rejecting humanitarianism too. Through an examination of a currently debated Bill on Asylum in Australia, she explores the increasing practice of 'unsigning' to humanitarian obligations by states in the Global North. Such forms of compromising humanitarianism, she proposes, point to new justificatory frameworks of asylum and testify to the consolidation of humanitarian governance that is increasingly defined by a depoliticized and dehistoricized 'juridification' of the suffering body.

She has published widely on theories of sovereignty and biopolitics, critical legal theory, critiques of human rights and contemporary continental philosophy. Her current research is on the emergence of the 'right to intervene' in the practices of the new activist humanitarian NGOs of the s, and its transformation into a legitimising discourse for state militarism. Supporting material Add supporting material slides, programs, etc.

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Your message has been sent. Report "Human Rights: Confronting Governments? Conference announcements. Are Human Rights Neoliberal? However, most of that scholarship maintains a narrow Eurocentric perspective. This event explores the relationship between human rights and neoliberalism by looking at the broader international context in which both movements came to prominence. We will consider 1 how anti-colonialists mobilised the language of human rights to support national liberation struggles, demands for economic restructuring, and social and cultural security; and 2 how neoliberal thinkers and politicians themselves marshalled the language of human rights to counter-attack those struggles for political and economic self-determination.

Lecture 2: "Powerless Companions or Fellow Travellers? Far from simply vacating the economic field, LSF mobilised human rights explicitly against Third Worldist demands for post-colonial economic redistribution. LSF's human rights warriors were not powerless companions of the rising neoliberalism, but enthusiastic fellow travellers.

Redistributive Human Rights more. This workshop aims to consider the different ways in which the language and frameworks of human rights have been deployed and mobilized both to make redistribute justice claims or to contest economic inequalities, but also to close down This workshop aims to consider the different ways in which the language and frameworks of human rights have been deployed and mobilized both to make redistribute justice claims or to contest economic inequalities, but also to close down political discussions around distributional questions and crush Third World demands for global wealth redistribution.

We hope to interrogate, why and how, at specific moments and in specific places, human rights movements and NGOs operated as either " powerless companions " or as " fellow travellers " to elitist economic agendas as well as to excavate moments when rights movements committed to companionships of solidarity based on building the power of the marginalized.

We invite papers that seek to understand the historical, political and economic conditions in which rights frameworks function. This workshop aims to build on and extend current debates about the relationship between human rights and economic inequality. We hope to enrich these discussions by paying attention to the complex and varied nature of human rights movements, the historical contingency of human rights frameworks and the differing visions and forms of rights.

In doing so, we aim to deepen understandings of the " distributional imagination and political economy " of human rights. We welcome engagements with the thematic of the workshop from the perspective of multiple disciplines: philosophy, political theory, sociology, law and legal theory, history, and anthropology. Workshop: Inventing Collateral Damage more.

In the paradigmatic U. Such damage need not be the accidental consequence of technical malfunction or human error, but also encompasses harm that is both foreseeable and foreseen by militaries that nonetheless proclaim their compliance with international law prohibitions on intentionally targeting non-combatants. Today, there is a significant body of scholarship that addresses the history of the laws of war and the construction of categories such as the civilian and the combatant.

The Will of the People? Revolutionary legacies, reactionary manipulations more. The will of the people? Revolutionary legacies, reactionary manipulations Thursday 1 June - Friday 2 June Venue: Clattern Lecture Theatre, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE Debates about the nature and value of democracy and of popular sovereignty have returned to the centre of political discussion in recent years and over the past year in particular.

Right-wing or extreme right-wing groups claiming to champion 'the will of the people' have established themselves all over the world, from Venezuela to Finland, and have taken or consolidated power by various means in places as different as the USA, Turkey, Russia, the UK, and Poland.

These recent re-appropriations of the phrase, however, cannot erase its revolutionary origins and implications. Popular sovereignty is indissociable from the effective formulation and imposition of the people's will, and democracy remains an empty word unless it affirms the power of ordinary people to prevail over any form of privileged interest or ruling class.

This conference aims to address some of the central questions that have become so divisive in contemporary political struggles, and to review some of the most significant revolutionary sequences that sought to empower a genuinely egalitarian and inclusive collective will to political change - from the French and Russian Revolutions to recent mobilisations in parts of the Middle East and Latin America.

Workshop: Intellectual History and the Scope of the Political more. The aim of this colloquium is to compare concepts of political action in the English liberal and utilitarian traditions with those found in Marx.

Thanks to the contributions of a number of well-known Australian researchers in political Thanks to the contributions of a number of well-known Australian researchers in political philosophy and critical theory, this colloquium forms the international column of a College Internationale de Philosophie research seminar on political action run by Oliver Feltham.

The research seminar is designed to develop a genealogy of political action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by identifying various models of political action at work in both political practice and modern philosophy.

What is at stake is neither a confrontation of ideologies nor one more critique of liberalism, but the construction of a comparative ontology of the actual efficacy, the taking place, of what has been called politics. Webinar series Conversations with Historians of Capitalism more.

Conversations with Historians of Capitalism. Department of History and Civilization. European University Institute, Florence. To register and to receive the zoom meeting password, please contact Laura Borgese laura. Book Talk.

NYC more. How has neoliberalism co-opted the language of human rights? Yet, rather than rejecting Join Jessica Whyte and Lisa Duggan for a conversation on how we got here and how we move forward. Book Talk, NYC. Publication Name: Hosted by Verso Books. Reviews of The Morals of the Market.

The world and all the social, political and productive relations contained in it have drastically changed with the rise of neo-liberalism. The speed of change is increasing at a vertiginous pace, as we witness how what once was considered The speed of change is increasing at a vertiginous pace, as we witness how what once was considered implausible becomes real: Brexit; riots in France, Lebanon and Chile; the largest pandemic hitherto; and, most recently, worldwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United States.

Underlying these political processes is the unresolved tension between the moral duty of ensuring human rights and dignity and the economic maxims advancing neo-liberalism and endless growth.

Jessica Whyte unravels this crucial tension in a compelling, rigorous, deep and passionate study of the morals underpinning human rights and neo-liberal markets, providing extremely relevant insights for students, social scientists and the general public. Jessica Whyte, a political theorist and an associate professor at the in the School of Humanities and Languages and the School of Law at the University of New South Wales, chose a clever title to her new book, finished around June Jessica Whyte, a political theorist and an associate professor at the in the School of Humanities and Languages and the School of Law at the University of New South Wales, chose a clever title to her new book, finished around June p.

Even if deciding who has been the most influential in the mutually-dependent pair is a matter open to the reader, her book presents a well-documented statement that the relationship goes beyond mere coexistence, by exploring an intricate discursive game between leading figures with transit in both fields. The standard left-critique of both rights and neoliberalism, largely drawing on Foucault and emphasizing its statist and economistic dimensions, still has a lot of gas left in the tank.

But a new generation of scholars have brought a But a new generation of scholars have brought a refreshing blend of new takes on the subject which complicate this now familiar narrative. Whyte has written a magnificent history of the association between the moral discourse on rights and neoliberalism which both synthesizes and goes beyond many of these earlier efforts. Jessica Whyte's excellent new book, The Morals of the Market, is one of those intellectually ambitious works that set itself not one but several very high scholarly bars to clear at the same time.

The Morals of the Market seeks to address The Morals of the Market seeks to address at least two fields of study in which there has been, to put it mildly, rather a lot of critical ink spilt over the last three to four decades: human rights, on the one hand, and neoliberalism, on the other.

In fields like political theory and political science, but also in history and philosophy and in law all disciplines on and in which Whyte draws and intervenes , there has been much debate both over the politics or the morality of human rights and, in turn, over the intersection of these concerns with neoliberalism and its politics, and its morality. Much, as we will see shortly, has turned on questions of their historical relation and emergence. In this context, saying something new about neoliberalism let alone human rights is challenging enough, but making original contributions about both phenomena in the space of a single monograph would deter many authors.

And yet Whyte is clearly one of those authors who say to themselves, on embarking upon a book project like this one: 'Why bother simply intervening into one debate when I can intervene into, and reframe, two or more? And, moreover, why bother intervening into debates that are recent or epiphenomenal when I can take on a longstanding scholarly question and try to say something original?

I am not one for narrative suspense when it comes to book reviews The third word of the present review rather gives the game away, I fear. So let me simply say, then, that in my view, The Morals of the Market succeeds on every count. This fascinating book has a lot of new and surprising things to teach us about human rights and neoliberalism, those longstanding and cherished objects of left critical theorization. For the inaugural colloquium, For the inaugural colloquium, Brauman invited a number of speakers, among them Peter Bauer, a recently retired professor from the London School of Economics.

Bauer was an odd choice given that he was a staunch defender of European colonialism; he had once responded to a student pamphlet that accused the British of taking "the rubber from Malaya, the tea from India, [and] raw materials from all over the world," by arguing that actually "the British took the rubber to Malaya and the tea to India.

Bauer hammered on this point at the colloquium, claiming that indigenous Amazonians were among the poorest people in the world precisely because they enjoyed the fewest "external contacts.

In her illuminating new book, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte recounts this story only to ask why Brauman, a leading humanitarian activist, invited Bauer-whom the Economist had described as being as hostile to foreign aid as Friedrich Hayek had been to socialism-to deliver a talk during the opening event for a new human rights organization.

Her response is multifaceted, but, as she traces the parallel histories of neoliberalism and human rights, it becomes clear that the two projects are not necessarily antithetical, and actually have more in common than one might think. When the architects of neoliberalism cobbled together their new economic order at Mont Pelerin, they included a moral vision with it. Co-opting the once revolutionary concepts of universal human rights, neoliberals refashioned the idea of Co-opting the once revolutionary concepts of universal human rights, neoliberals refashioned the idea of freedom by tying it fundamentally to the free market, and turning it into a weapon to be used against anticolonial projects all over the world.

Publication Date: Publication Name: Jacobin. Essays and Papers. It includes a response essay from Gordon and Perugini. Their book provides a startling new Their book provides a startling new take on the history of war, morality, and law. It describes the use of human shields in key historical and contemporary moments across the globe, demonstrating how the increasing weaponization of human beings has made the position of civilians trapped in theaters of violence more precarious and their lives more expendable.

They show how the law facilitates the use of lethal violence against vulnerable people while portraying it as humane, but they also reveal how people can and do use their own vulnerability to resist violence and denounce forms of dehumanization. Remember me on this computer.

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