Reinventing Human Rights proposes a radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice, offering a new path away from common critiques and advocacy for the status quo. It calls for a working theory of human rights defined by translocality, inviting people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 22 March 2022
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Mark Goodale proposes a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal, calling for a working theory of human rights defined by translocality, a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity. This book will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.

A Radical Vision for the Future of Human Rights as a Fundamentally Reconfigured Framework for Global Justice

Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo—Mark Goodale offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal. Goodale's proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the practice of human rights. Rather than a priori claims to universality, he calls for a working theory of human rights defined by translocality, a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity. This book will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree—for many different reasons—that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781503613300