From the Margins of Globalization Critical

In From the Margins of Globalization, Neve Gordon assembles work from leading intellectuals and activists in the field of human rights. Each essay in this volume discusses a community or issue left adrift in the wake of global capitalism. Whether it's Mohammad Khatami writing on the United Nations and its role after 9/11 or ftienne Balibar thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism this book comprises a core challenge to human rights by focusing on what lies beyond the margins of a world in constant flux.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Human Rights as Being-Marginal-in-the-World	p. 1
Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Universalism
Islam, Iran, and the Dialogue of Civilizations	p. 25
Racism, Sexism, Universalism(s)	p. 43
Development and Economic Rights
Between Despots and Banks: A Human Rights Response to Africa's Debt Crisis	p. 63
Socioeconomic Rights, Radical Democracy, and Power: South Africa as a Case Study	p. 87
Globalization and the Rights of Stateless People
New Formulas, Old Sins: Human Rights Abuses against Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees in the Americas	p. 129
At the Border of Rights: Migration, Sex Work, and Trafficking	p. 161
The Body, the Mind, and Health Rights
The Right to Madness: From the Personal to the Political-Psychiatry and Human Rights	p. 195
Embodying Shadows: Tracing the Contours of Women's Rights to Health	p. 223
Human Rights and Accountability
Human Rights and Sacred Cows: Framing Violence, Disappearing Struggles	p. 261
Index	p. 297
About the Contributors	p. 309
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