Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780367871437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 170 str.

Nick Stevenson

Opis

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance.There are currently two predominant myths circulating about freedom. The first is that in a global age growing numbers of citizens are less concerned with freedom than they are with security.

Spis treści

Introduction: Human Rights and Freedom

1. Human Rights, Freedom and Humanity

2. Human Rights and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Questions of Human Dignity and Cultural Identity.

3. The ‘Making’ and ‘Doing’ of Global Civil Society: E.P.Thompson and Cosmopolitanism

4. The Human Right to Schooling (or Education) in the Age of Global Neoliberalism

5.Jazz as Cultural Modernity: Consumerism, Neoliberalism and Cosmopolitan Freedom

6.Human Rights and Documentary Cinema: A Democratic Pedagogic Practice in the Time of Globalisation

7.Human Rights, Post-Capitalism and the Right to be Human: The Rise of the Commons

Conclusion: The Human Right to be Human

Bibliography

O autorze

Nick Stevenson is Reader in Cultural Sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, UK.