{"product_id":"human-rights-and-populism-9781032317533","title":"Human Rights and Populism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, framing an issue as a human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces. Ford explores the recent impact of populist politics on the universalist human rights project, in particular, how scholars have framed and responded to this challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFord offers a provocation to the human rights movement. Rather than what have populists done to human rights?', it asks how did we, the human rights movement, do this to ourselves?' How did fundamental protections for all become so easily scapegoated as us and them,' as claims of small, often foreign, minorities? Did human rights lose some vital connection to ordinary people's interests, their value taken as obvious and self-explanatory?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking forward, the book asks how  in a post-truth fake news' world  we might reimagine human rights as underpinning human flourishing as well as important constraints\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A scholarly, sophisticated and clear-headed analysis of the real impact of the last decade’s global ‘populist backlash’ against human rights, and the appropriate response by advocates for still-admirable universal principles. Ford challenges us, in effect, to be more introspective and less insulting – to rethink our inclination to blame the ‘deplorables’ for what too often have been shortcomings in our own sensitivity and priority-setting. It’s a timely wake-up call.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGareth Evans\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFormer Australian Foreign Minister, President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, author of \u003c\/em\u003eThe Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All\u003cem\u003e, Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Australian National University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The rise of human rights and the decline of colonialism, along with the prohibition on the use of force, were among the signature achievements of international law in the twentieth century. Yet the twenty-first has seen the rise of populist political forces that challenge human rights in form and substance, including explicit denunciations of that discourse by leaders of countries that were once among its greatest champions. In this book, Jolyon Ford examines populism and its impact on human rights, as well as how scholars and activists can and should respond. Importantly, that response goes beyond a counter-populist agenda and embraces the opportunity for a critical evaluation not only of what populism has done to human rights, but also what it has revealed.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon Chesterman, \u003ci\u003eVice Provost (Educational Innovation), National University of Singapore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The human rights movement has often not reacted well to criticism. This is particularly true of its response to populism. While populism confronts human rights with a great many challenges, it also provides an opportunity for those of us who continue to support human rights with an opportunity to radically evaluate what we stand for and why. This book offers a thoughtful and accessible scholarly tool for undertaking the kind of constructively critical self-analysis the human rights movement urgently needs to engage in. I recommend it to anyone who cares about human rights and social justice.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Fagan\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEssex Law School, Director, Human Rights Centre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions to explore \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutline of the book \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaveat, clarification, caution \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Patterns: ‘Populism’ and its claimed impact on human rights in recent times \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDefining ‘populism’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBackslide \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBacklash \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII Problems: Putting the ‘populist challenge’ narrative in perspective \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCouching the ‘populist era’ in some historical perspective \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnduring critiques or drawbacks of the human rights project \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Distortive’ \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Disconnected’ \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Delegitimised’ \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII Progress?: Evaluating proposals to counter populism and revitalise human rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReframing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Populist backlash’ as blindness \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Populist backlash’ as distraction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Populist backlash’ as window (of opportunity) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviewing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrescriptions advanced for revitalisating human rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvaluating prescriptions for revitalisating human rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecalculating \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre human rights still powerful? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA persistent belief in the rights frame \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat expectations? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions of substance versus form \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018971054423,"sku":"9781032317533","price":121.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032317533.jpg?v=1750778865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/human-rights-and-populism-9781032317533","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}