State terrorism and neoliberalism: the North in the South
In: Critical terrorism studies
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In: Critical terrorism studies
This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South.
In: Critical studies on terrorism, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 321-341
ISSN: 1753-9161
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 599-619
ISSN: 0260-2105
World Affairs Online
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 39, Heft 3
ISSN: 1469-9044
This article demonstrates the significance of human rights for challenging state violence and terrorism. It is intended to enhance understanding of the concept of emancipation. Critical Security Studies has tended to focus on the individual as the agent of her/his own liberation. Yet many victims of oppression are not able to free themselves. Drawing on historical materialism, it is argued that collective agency on behalf of the oppressed has a necessary role to play in emancipatory politics. Emancipation is contingent on the capacity of specific agents, located socially and historically, to identify practices that might bring about change, structures that might be transformed, and appropriate agents that are in the best position to facilitate such change. This article shows how such collective social action has forced a reversal of some of the Bush administration's repressive policies, and has partially succeeded in curtailing the arbitrary use of US state power. This has been achieved through the national and international human rights architecture. Therefore, Marxian claims that human rights should be eschewed are mistaken, since they fail to acknowledge the emancipatory potential of human rights, the opportunities they provide for collective social action, and the role they can play in transformative social change. Adapted from the source document.
In: Journal of human rights, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 277-281
ISSN: 1475-4835
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 599-619
ISSN: 1469-9044
AbstractThis article demonstrates the significance of human rights for challenging state violence and terrorism. It is intended to enhance understanding of the concept of emancipation. Critical Security Studies has tended to focus on the individual as the agent of her/his own liberation. Yet many victims of oppression are not able to free themselves. Drawing on historical materialism, it is argued that collective agency on behalf of the oppressed has a necessary role to play in emancipatory politics. Emancipation is contingent on the capacity of specific agents, located socially and historically, to identify practices that might bring about change, structures that might be transformed, and appropriate agents that are in the best position to facilitate such change. This article shows how such collective social action has forced a reversal of some of the Bush administration's repressive policies, and has partially succeeded in curtailing the arbitrary use of US state power. This has been achieved through the national and international human rights architecture. Therefore, Marxian claims that human rights should be eschewed are mistaken, since they fail to acknowledge the emancipatory potential of human rights, the opportunities they provide for collective social action, and the role they can play in transformative social change.
In: International journal of human rights, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 644-646
ISSN: 1744-053X
In: Journal of human rights, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 544-561
ISSN: 1475-4843
In: International journal of human rights, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 644-647
ISSN: 1364-2987
In: Critical studies on terrorism, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 169-172
ISSN: 1753-9161
In: International affairs, Band 85, Heft 2, S. 399-400
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Critical studies on terrorism, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 151-165
ISSN: 1753-9161
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 373-394
ISSN: 0260-2105
World Affairs Online
In: European political science: EPS, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 228-235
ISSN: 1682-0983