The Human Right to Dominate

Zusatztext The tight relationship between human rights and the sovereign state has elicited significant critical attention (Agamben, 1998; Arendt [1951] 1968; Douzinas, 2000; cf. Cohen, 2012), and Perugini and Gordon (2015) make an important contribution to this literature as they examine Israel's creation as a representative example of 'the constitutive relationship between human rights, national statecraft, and domination' (Perugini and Gordon, 2015:30). Informationen zum Autor Nicola Perugini is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle East Studies and Italian Studies at Brown University.Neve Gordon is Professor of Politics and Governemnt at Ben-Gurion University and author of Israel's Occupation. Klappentext The Human Right to Dominate investigates the Israel/Palestine conflict to account for how human rights - generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices - are increasingly being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize their domination. Zusammenfassung The Human Right to Dominate investigates the Israel/Palestine conflict to account for how human rights - generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices - are increasingly being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize their domination.

Autorentext

Nicola Perugini is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle East Studies and Italian Studies at Brown University. Neve Gordon is Professor of Politics and Governemnt at Ben-Gurion University and author of Israel's Occupation.

Klappentext

The Human Right to Dominate investigates the Israel/Palestine conflict to account for how human rights - generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices - are increasingly being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize their domination.