Human Rights and Subjectivity

This book draws on a range of theoretical frameworks to challenge the limited conception of subjectivity upon which human rights are based.

Elisabeth Roy-Trudel is a member of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Introduction Part I: A challenge to the 'human' of human rights 1. Actualizing the figure of the refugee to challenge a system based on the citizen-subject 2. Human, right? Analysing the subject of human rights through posthumanist approaches 3. Contesting the dominant ontology and epistemology through critical theories from the margins Part II: Towards more sensuous and inclusive international human rights 4. Exposing the imagined subject of human rights through a visual discourse analysis 5. Sensing the subject of international human rights Concluding thoughts and feelings