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Law and Cultural Studies: A Critical Rearticulation of Human Rights
This book considers the ways in which cultural humanism and the critical approach to rights, and more broadly between culture and law, can be brought together to open a new intellectual space to allow cultural studies to better engage with the current challenges presented by social and political struggles worldwide.
| Author(s) | By John Erni (Hong Kong Baptist University). |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 232 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 20 Dec 2018 |
| Availability | Available |
This book considers the ways in which cultural humanism and the critical approach to rights, and more broadly between culture and law, can be brought together to open a new intellectual space to allow cultural studies to better engage with the current challenges presented by social and political struggles worldwide.
Acknowledgements Prologue: Cultural Studies and Critical Human Rights: An Immanent Encounter 1. Who Needs Human Rights? A Renewal 2. 8 Theses on Human Rights: A Resource For Critical Engagement 3. The Juris-Cultural: Cases and Perspectives
John Nguyet Erni is Fung Hon Chu Endowed Chair of Humanics, Chair Professor in Humanities and Head of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultura
