Silencing Human Rights

Introduction: 'Silence' and Human Rights; G. K. Bhambra and R. Shilliam PART I: FOUNDING SILENCES: THE QUESTION OF HUMANITY 'How oppression thrives where truth is not allowed a voice.' The Spanish Polemic about the American Indians; M. J. Rodríguez -Salgado No More no Less: What Slaves thought about their Humanity; S. N. Grovogui PART II: FOUNDING SILENCES: THE PRACTICES OF EXCLUSION The Rites of Dispossession: Medieval and Modern; N. Inayatullah and D. L. Blaney 'That all men are created equal': 'Rights talk' and Exclusion in North America; R. Marden PART III: INSTITUTIONAL SILENCES: CITIZENSHIP AND EXCLUSION Is the Right to Sovereignty a Human Right? The Idea of Sovereign Freedom and the Jewish State; J. Cocks A Continuity of Silence in Serbia: From the Irrelevance of Human Rights to Collective Crime, and Beyond; N. Dimitrijevic PART IV: INSTITUTIONAL SILENCES: CITIZENSHIP AND 'INCLUSION' Population Exchanges of the Balkans and Asia Minor at the Fin de Siècle. The Imposition of Political Subjectivities in the Modern World Order; R. Ozdemir* Silencing to Protect: The Debate over Women's Rights in France and Canada; L.Bassel All too Meaningful Silences: The European Court of Human Rights' Disappointing Case Law on Racial Discrimination; M-B. Dembour PART V: CONTESTED SILENCES: THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR Silencing the Sovereignty of the Poor in Haiti ; T. di Muzio Rights Beyond the Urban-rural Divide: South Africa's Landless People's Movement and the Creation of a Landless Subjectivity; A. Alexander Conclusion: Human Rights in Contemporary Global Perspective; R. Shilliam and G. K. Bhambra Epilogue: Whom may we speak for, with, and after? Re-silencing Human Rights; U. Baxi Endnotes Bibliography
*Winner of the International Studies Association's Robert and Jessie Cox Award 2009