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Silencing human rights, critical engagements with a contested project, edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Robbie Shilliam ; epilogue by Upendra Baxi

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Silencing human rights

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edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Robbie Shilliam ; epilogue by Upendra Baxi

critical engagements with a contested project

Introduction: "silence" and human rights / Gurminder K. Bhambra and Robbie Shilliam -- How oppression thrives where truth is not allowed a voice. The Spanish polemic about the American Indians / M. J. Rodriguez-Salgado -- No more no less. What slaves thought about their humanity / Siba N. Grovogui -- The rites of dispossession : medieval and modern / Naeem Inayatullah and David L. Blaney -- "That all men are created equal" : "rights talk" and exclusion in North America / Roland Marden -- Is the right to sovereignty a human right? The idea of sovereign freedom and the Jewish state / Joan Cocks -- A continuity of silence in Serbia : from the irrelevance of human rights to collective crime, and beyond / Nenad Dimitrijevic -- Population exchanges of the Balkans and Asia Minor at the fin de siecle. The imposition of political subjectivities in the modern world order / Renk Ozdemir -- Silencing to protect : the debate over women's rights in France and Canada / Leah Bassel -- All too meaningful silences : the European Court of Human Rights' disappointing case law on racial discrimination / Marie-Benedicte Dembour -- Silencing the sovereignty of the poor in Haiti / Tim di Muzio -- Rights beyond the urban-rural divide : South Africa's Landless People's Movement and the creation of a landless subjectivity / Amanda Alexander -- Conclusion: human rights in contemporary global perspective / Robbie Shilliam and Gurminder K. Bhambra -- Epilogue: whom may we speak for, with, and after? Re-silencing human rights / Upendra Baxi