This collection brings together a range of international contributors to stimulate discussions on time and international human rights law, a topic that has been given little attention to date. The book explores how time and its diverse forms can be understood to operate on, and in, this area of law; how time manifests in the theory and practice of human rights law internationally; and how specific areas of human rights can be understood via temporal analyses.
A range of temporal ideas and their connection to this area of law are investigated. These include collective memory, ideas of past, present and future, emergency time, the times of environmental change, linearity and non-linearity, multiplicitous time, and the connections between time and space or materiality. Rather than a purely abstract or theoretical endeavour, this dedicated attention to the times and temporalities of international human rights law will assist in better understanding this law, its development, and its operation in the present. What emerges from the collection is a future – or, more precisely, futures – for time as a vehicle of analysis for those working within human rights law internationally.
Foreword: Thoughts for the Times of Human Rights Lyndsey Stonebridge, University of Birmingham, UK Introduction Kathryn McNeilly, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and Ben Warwick, University of Birmingham, UK 1. The Temporality of Memory and the Authority of the European Court of Human Rights Frederick Cowell, Birkbeck, University of London, UK 2. The Temporalities of Environmental Human Rights Julia Dehm, La Trobe University, Australia 3. The Temporal Trap of Human Rights Stephen M Young, University of Otago, Canada 4. Documents and Time in International Human Rights Law Monitoring: Artefacts, Objects, Things Kathryn McNeilly, Queen’s University Belfast, UK 5. Gender, Temporality and International Human Rights Law: From Hidden Histories to Feminist Futures Kay Lalor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 6. International Human Rights Law and Time-Space at Sea: A Rhythmanalysis of Prosecuting Search and Rescue Fadia Dakka, Birmingham City University, UK, and Daria Davitti, Lund University, Sweden 7. Human Rights after Fukuyama Michele Tedeschini, Harvard University, USA 8. Queer Temporalities and Human Rights Anthony J Langlois, Flinders University, Australia 9. Against the Eternal Law(s) of Human Rights: Towards a Becoming-Chaotic of Time Christos Marneros, University of Kent, UK 10. From Crisis to Quotidian: Countering the Temporal Myopia of Jus Cogens Mary H Hansel, University of California, USA 11. Human Rights Futures Paul O’Connell, SOAS University of London, UK Afterword: Between the Times Samuel Moyn, Yale University, USA
Kathryn McNeilly is Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Queen’s University, UK. Ben Warwick is Reader at Birmingham Law School, UK.
