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Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Arts, Human Rights and the Law in Africa: An Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Critical Pedagogy of International Legal Education in Africa: An Exploration of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Music -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fela and Law -- 3 International Law Issues in Fela's Music -- 3.1 A "TWAILing" Fela -- 3.2 Musical Objection to the International System -- 4 Bringing Fela to the Classroom: Some Specific Pedagogical Considerations -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Photographic Silhouettes and Human Rights in Africa: Confronting and Deterring Female Genital Mutilation in Aida Silvestri's Unsterile Clinic -- 1 Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) -- 2 Aida Silvestri's Unsterile Clinic -- 3 Health and Human Rights -- 4 The Role of Art in Eradicating the Practice of FGM -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Literature and Human Rights in Africa: Making a Case for a Trauma-Sensitive Approach in Proving Persecution in Asylum Processes through Adichie's The American Embassy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Right to Seek and Enjoy Asylum -- 3 Burden of Proof in Asylum Processes -- 4 Trauma as a Psycho-Social Problem -- 5 The Imperative for a Trauma-Sensitive Approach -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Photojournalism and Human Rights in Africa: Stories from the Field -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ebola -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Soap Operas and Human Rights in Africa: African Feminist and Human Rights Perspective on the Representation of Black Women in the Media -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Understanding African Feminist Theory -- 3 Bechdel Test -- 4 Content Analysis and Bechdel Test -- 4.1 Skeem Saam -- 4.2 Muvhango -- 4.3 Isidingo -- 5 African Feminist Analysis -- 5.1 Agency -- 5.2 Female Networks -- 5.3 Intersectionality: Gender and Race -- 5.4 Human Rights Analysis.

Human rights and the arts in global Asia : conceptualizing contexts / Lily Cho and Susan J. Henders -- Love the future : Ai Weiwei and art for human rights / Alice Ming Wai Jim -- "September" : seeing religion and rights in Burma / Alicia Turner -- Impacts and legacies of war on human rights : perspectives from Dương Thu Hương's Novel without a name / Van Nguyen-Marshall -- Incendiary material : ethnicity and the Sri Lankan civil conflict in Anil's ghost and Wilting laughter / Arun Nedra Rodrigo -- Literary lament of a death foretold : Tibetan writers on the forced settlement of herders / Françoise Robin -- Reading peasant rights to livelihood in Umar Kayam's Sri Sumarah and Bawuk / Mary M. Young -- The river, the people and the state(s) : Padma nadir majhi as a meditation on ecology and human rights / Afsan Chowdhury -- Abuse and its aftermath : Kim Saryang's Into the light, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue's Red dates / Theodore W. Goossen -- Chasing the monster : the representation of Korean residents in Japan and human rights in Oshima Nagisa's film Death by hanging / Jooyeon Rhee -- Human rights and human wrongs : reading Shama Futehally's Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer's A life in transit / Arun P. Mukherjee -- Intersectionality, hybridity, and the minority rights subject : the Macanese of Macau in literature, film, and law / Susan J. Henders -- Human rights and the poetics of "migritude" : South Asian diasporic spoken word / Sailaja Krishnamurti -- Universal rights and separate universes : local/national identities, global power, and the modeling and representing of human rights in Indonesian performance arts / Michael Bodden -- Confucius institutes, human rights, and global Asia / Lily Cho

AbstractArt can present to people the dangers coming from above, like excessive surveillance, military attacks and climate change, which all threaten people's physical and mental well-being. Governments, however, also use art to legitimise new military and surveillance technologies. They often create seductive images which show the efficiency of these technologies, and they develop fiction related to pre-emptive measures which might try to predict and prevent crimes from occurring. In the last 20 years, especially after the 11 September terrorist attack, we have witnessed an essential change in the perception of human rights and reinterpretations of laws to allow pre-emptive strikes in the battle against terrorism. The concept of pre-crime, increased surveillance, and the belief that one can predict and prevent crimes have also altered the perceptions of subjectivity. While some critics regard human rights as obsolete or inefficient, political scientists like Claude Lefort have perceived them as always open to reinterpretation and expansion. People can invent new human rights. The increased threats from above require that we expand the existing rights corpus.