{"product_id":"the-human-rights-state-justice-within-and-beyond-sovereign-nations-hardback-9780812248050","title":"The Human Rights State; Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations (Hardback) 9780812248050","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Human Rights State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJustice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenjamin Gregg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812248050\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 April 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.554 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Human Rights State\u003c\/i\u003e is an important work of political imagination. This is a compliment to the author and an evaluation of the book's argument. In prose, both light and evocative Benjamin Gregg asks us to rethink human rights as a freestanding moral ideal to which we should aspire.\" (\u003ci\u003eContemporary Political Theory\u003c\/i\u003e) \"The book challenges some of the mystifications associated with human rights, characterising them as mundane achievements of political action by ordinary people. It develops a model of human rights as grounded in local contexts and legitimated on this basis, as well as because their conditions of success depend on persuasion rather than coercion. It is engagingly written, presenting an attractive account of how we-as concerned individuals-might begin to move from a world of widespread human rights violations to one in which human rights are widely, if variously, recognised.\" (\u003ci\u003eAustralian Journal of Politics and History\u003c\/i\u003e) \"A pragmatic sensibility underlies Gregg's constructivist proposals for a nonideal politics aimed at addressing ways in which actually existing states violate or erect barriers to human rights . . . .One of the many great strengths of Gregg's account is its positive, politically astute, and cautiously hopeful tone.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Review of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e) \"\u003ci\u003eThe Human Rights State\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling contribution to the theory of human rights, ranging from the ontology of such rights to the theoretical articulation of their international and local practice.\" (Kelvin Knight, London Metropolitan University) \"\u003ci\u003eThe Human Rights State\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to current debates about both the theory and practice of human rights. It will be of interest to philosophers, political theorists, legal scholars, and activists from across the political spectrum.\" (Martin Woessner, The City College of New York)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers. From the logic of exclusion a state derives its sovereign power. Yet this exclusivity undermines the project of advancing human rights globally. That project operates on a logic of inclusion: all people, regardless of citizenship status or territorial location, would everywhere be recognized as bearers of human rights. In practice, human rights are afforded, if at all, then only to citizens of those few states that sometimes regard human rights as moral necessities of domestic commitments-or for states that find that stance politically expedient for the moment.\u003cbr\u003e This discouraging reality in the first decades of the twenty-first century prompts the question: What political arrangement might better conduce the local embrace and enduring practice of human rights? In \u003ci\u003eThe Human Rights State\u003c\/i\u003e, Benjamin Gregg challenges the conviction that the nation state can only have a zero-sum relationship with human rights: national sovereignty is possible or human rights are possible, but not both, not in the same place, at the same time. He argues that the human rights project would be more effective if established and enforced at local levels as locally valid norms, and from there encouraged to expand outward toward overlaps with other locally established and enforced conceptions of human rights grown in their own local soils.\u003cbr\u003e Proposing a metaphorical human rights state that operates within or alongside a nation state, Gregg describes networks of activists that encourage local political and legal systems to generate domestic obligations to enforce human rights. Geographic boundaries and national sovereignties would remain intact but diminished to the extent necessary to extend human rights to all persons, without reservation, across national borders, by rendering human rights an integral aspect of the nation state's constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. A Project for the Free Embrace of Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e Part I. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE: POLITICS BY METAPHOR\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Human Rights as Metaphor\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Human Rights in a Backpack\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Body as Human Rights Boundary\u003cbr\u003e PART II. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE THROUGH PERSUASION, NOT COERCION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Teaching Human Rights as a Cognitive Style\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Developing Human Rights Commitment in Post-Authoritarian Societies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Digital Technology as Resource for the Human Rights Project\u003cbr\u003e PART III. DEFENSE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Human Rights Patriotism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. A Human Right Not to Democracy but to the Rule of Law\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention\u003cbr\u003e Coda: A Community of Nation States Practicing Domestic Cosmopolitanism\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559188066584,"sku":"9780812248050","price":42.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-human-rights-state-justice-within-and-beyond-sovereign-nations-hardback-9780812248050","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}