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

xi

Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction: Human Rights as Being-Marginal-in-the-World

1

(24)

Neve Gordon

Part I: Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Universalism

Islam, Iran, and the Dialogue of Civilizations

25

(18)

Mohammad Khatami

Racism, Sexism, Universalism(s)

43

(20)

Etienne Balibar

Part II: Development and Economic Rights

Between Despots and Banks: A Human Rights Response to Africa's Debt Crisis

63

(24)

Mulela Margaret Munalula

Socioeconomic Rights, Radical Democracy, and Power: South Africa as a Case Study

87

(42)

Ran Greenstein

Part III: Globalization and the Rights of Stateless People

New Formulas, Old Sins: Human Rights Abuses against Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees in the Americas

129

(32)

Andreas E. Feldmann

Helena Olea

At the Border of Rights: Migration, Sex Work, and Trafficking

161

(34)

Audrey Macklin

Part IV: The Body, the Mind, and Health Rights

The Right to Madness: From the Personal to the Political---Psychiatry and Human Rights

195

(28)

Ruchama Marton

Embodying Shadows: Tracing the Contours of Women's Rights to Health

223

(38)

Alicia Yamin

Part V: Human Rights and Accountability

Human Rights and Sacred Cows: Framing Violence, Disappearing Struggles

261

(36)

Vasuki Nesiah

Alan Keenan

Index

297

(12)

About the Contributors

309

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From the Margins of Globalization Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

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