Preface
Chapter 1: Non-Universal Human Rights and Rightlessness
Chapter 2: The Uneasy Present of Colonialism
Chapter 3: Slavery and Its Afterlives
Chapter 4: The Less Than Human
Chapter 5: The Impossibility of Indigenous Human Rights
Chapter 6: Decolonizing Human Rights
Bibliography
Index
Colin Samson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex
"A convincing portrayal of ongoing complicity with human rights
abuses in the 'time of rights', so persuasive that it is hard to
see how dehumanization under neo-colonialism can end. […] However,
it has to be attempted and this book makes a powerful start. It is
an essential read for anyone interested in the relationship between
human rights and the West's unvirtuous history and contemporary
geo-politics."
Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Colin Samson has written a poignant indictment of the hypocrisy of
Western elites who extol the virtues of human rights while engaging
in colonialism, war, slavery and capitalist exploitation. He makes
a powerful argument for decolonizing human rights by indigenizing
the law and addressing the racial exclusions at the heart of human
rights discourse."
Richard Wilson, University of Connecticut
"A coruscating analysis of the dark side of liberalism,
demonstrating that the universality of human rights has always been
limited by assumptions of cultural and racial inequality at their
core. A powerful and revealing intervention in politics, history
and activism."
Robert Gildea, University of Oxford
"[A]n engaging and rich reading, suggesting that we should not hold
any eusebeia – or sacred awe – towards the 'founding fathers' of
human rights. One of the strongest aspects of the book is that it
encourages readers not only to look directly in the eyes of western
hypocrisy about human rights, but it pushes them to think that only
by acknowledging this hypocrisy can we, in fact, save human rights
from their racist and colonial genesis, and work towards their
transfiguration as an effective emancipatory tool."
Sociology
"Colin Samson's book is an outstanding, honest and bold statement
on the reality on the ground. It is a highly recommended reading
for everyone interested in the globalisation and modernisation
projects."
Anis Ahmad, The Muslim World Book Review
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