The Aporia of Rights Explorations in citizenship in the era of human rights

The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with the politics of human rights.

Anna Yeatman is professor and director of the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney. She is a political and social theorist who has also practical experience in public policy.

Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, USA. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (2006) and co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (1995).

Introduction
Acts of Emancipation: Marx, Rights, and 'On the Jewish Question', Charles Barbour, University of Western Sydney
Revolutionary Declarations: State of Right vs. Right of Opposition, Peg Birmingham, DePaul University
Neither Here Nor There: The Conceptual Paradoxes of Immigrant and Asylee Resistance, Rob Glover, University of Maine
Democratic rights as a collective interest: revisiting suffrage restrictions for people with cognitive impairments, Ludvig Beckman, Stockholm University
The politics of indigenous human rights in the era of settler state citizenship:legacies of the nexus between sovereignty, human rights and citizenship, Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney
Performing the Practice of Human Rights: The case of the new ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, Anthony J. Langlois, Flinders University
The Multivocity of Human Rights Discourse, Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania
Historical normativity and the basis of rights, Paul Patton, University of New South Wales
Humanising Militarism: On the Tactical Polyvalence of Human Rights Discourses, Jessica Whyte, University of Western Sydney
The politics of human rights: the agonistic relationship between social democracy and neo-liberalism,Anna Yeatman, University of Western Sydney
Afterword
Consolidated Bibliography
Index