Redirecting human rights: facing the challenge of corporate legal humanity

Redirecting Human Rights presents a theoretical reading of the idea of corporate human rights and proposes that embodied vulnerability should be understoodto be the foundation of human rights. INDICE: Introduction Human Rights Under Pressure? Corporate Human Rights? Law, Persons and Disembodiment The Liberal Subject of Rights, Capitalism and the Corporation A Genealogy of Quasi-Disembodiment in International Human Rights Law The Centrality of Human Embodiment Embodied Vulnerability and Human Rights Embodied Vulnerability and the Limits of Privatization: Reconsidering Property and Human Rights Some Brief Conclusory Thoughts and Future Research Directions Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-230-54222-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés