There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and literature address the challenges that displacement, asylum, and migration pose to our notions of human rights. Each lecture is accompanied by a critical response from another leading thinker in the field.
The volume contains lectures by Slavoj Zizek, Bhikhu Parekh, Ali A.
Mazrui, Matthew J. Gibney, Saskia Sassen, Harold Hongju Koh, Caryl Phillips, and Jacqueline Rose, with critical responses from Michael Ignatieff, Seyla Benhabib, Iftikhar Malik, Melissa Lane, Christian Joppke, Rey Koslowski, Elleke Boehmer, and Ali Abunimah.
This is the twelfth volume of Oxford Amnesty Lectures to be published since 1992.'All good citizens should probably want to buy them . . . simply because they are published in support of such a good cause. It turns out, though, that no self-sacrifice is involved. [These] are immensely rich, challenging, stimulating volumes . . . The contributors' lists are star-studded . . . and each book has a clear, coherent, overarching theme, despite the extreme diversity of the individual lectures' (The Independent, April 10, 2003).
Edited by:
Kate E. Tunstall (Fellow in French Worcester College Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 196mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9780192807243
ISBN 10: 0192807242
Series: Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Pages: 370
Publication Date: 01 July 2006
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Kate E. Tunstall: Introduction Part One: Human Rights 1: Bhikhu Parekh (Response by Seyla Benhabib): Finding a Proper Place for Human Rights 2: Slavoj Zizek (Response by Michael Ignatieff): Against an Ideology of Human Rights 3: Ali A. Mazrui (Response by Iftikhar H. Malik): Strangers in our Midst Part Two: Displacement, Asylum, Migration 4: Matthew J. Gibney (Response by Melissa Lane): A Thousand Little Guantanamos: Western States and Measures to Prevent the Arrival of Refugees 5: Saskia Sassen (Response by Christian Joppke): 1. The Repositioning of Citizenship and Alienage: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics 6: Caryl Phillips (Response by Elleke Boehmer): Border Crossings 7: Harold Hongju Koh (Response by Rey Koslowski): The New Global Slave Trade 8: Jacqueline Rose (Response by Ali Abunimah): Displacement in Zion
Kate E. Tunstall is Fellow in French at Worcester College, Oxford.
