{"product_id":"struggles-for-the-human-9781478025566","title":"Struggles for the Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStruggles for the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle. Drawing on her extensive involvement with grassroots social movements in Colombia, Coleman observes that mainstream expressions of human rights have become counterparts to capitalist violence, even as this discourse disavows capitalism’s deadly implications. She rejects claims that human rights are inherently tied to capitalism, liberalism, or colonialism, instead showing how human rights can be used to combat these forces. Coleman demonstrates that social justice struggles that are rooted in marginalized communities’ lived experiences can reframe human rights in order to challenge oppressive power structures and offer a blueprint for constructing alternative political economies. By examining the practice of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lara Montesinos Coleman’s arresting and beautiful ethnography of Colombian resistance movements doubles as an informed and sophisticated critical intervention into the controversy about the meanings of human rights in an age of neoliberalism. Bypassing the politics of struggle, the book proves, is a mistake for anyone rushing to bury—or praise—human rights today.” -- Samuel Moyn, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eStruggles for the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, Lara Montesinos Coleman brings together a blistering critique of mainstream human rights practices and a nuanced account of neoliberalism with a defense of the continued use of human rights by radical social movements. Coleman shows how human rights retain a disruptive potential and can contribute to the dismantling of capitalist structures of impunity. Breaking new ground in our thinking about rights, capitalist power, and emancipation, this is an indispensable book for all those interested in the politics of human rights, radical social movements, and political philosophy.” -- Jessica Whyte, author of * The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Human Rights in Struggle  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Necroeconomics: Violence, Law, and Twenty-First-Century Plunder  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Deadly Colonial Ethics: Development Policy-Speak and Corporate Responsibility  57\u003cbr\u003e 3. Privatizing Workers’ Rights: Social Partnership in a Neoliberal World  81\u003cbr\u003e 4. Elusive Justice: Capital, Impunity, and Counterlegality  105\u003cbr\u003e 5. From Pernicious Optimism to Radical Hope: Human Rights beyond Abstract Values  132\u003cbr\u003e 6. For an Insurgent Humanism  153\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. What Do We Make of Human Rights? \u003ci\u003eTen Points\u003c\/i\u003e  170\u003cbr\u003e Notes  175\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  213\u003cbr\u003e Index  239","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867289268567,"sku":"9781478025566","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025566.jpg?v=1722282618","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/struggles-for-the-human-9781478025566","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}