13 The Subject of Human Rights: An Interview with Samuel Moyn

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction: Bringing the Subject of Human Rights into Focus 1
5. PART I: WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS?
6. 1 The Relational Self As the Subject of Human Rights 29
7. 2 The Misbegotten Monad: Anthropology, Human Rights, Belonging 48
8. 3 “Are Women Animals?”: The Rise and Rise of (Animal) Rights 64
9. 4 Indigenous Peoples As the Subject of Human Rights 79
10. 5 “Escaped”: Gendered Precarity and Human Rights Recognition 99
11. PART II: WHO IS SUBJECT TO HUMAN RIGHTS?
12. 6 Training Subjects for Human Rights 117
13. 7 Who Deserves Inalienable Rights?: Th e Subjectivity of Violent State Officials and the Implications for Human Rights Protection 134
14. 8 Human Rights As Therapy: The Healing Paradigms of Transitional Justice 153
15. 9 Cinematic Aesthetics and the Subjects of Human Rights: On Eliane Caffé’s Era o Hotel Cambridge 172
16. PART III: HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS MAKE SUBJECTS?
17. 10 Human Rights As Spiritual Exercises 193
18. 11 The Child Subject of Human Rights 211
19. 12 The Secular Subject of Human Rights 228
20. 13 The Subject of Human Rights: An Interview with Samuel Moyn 243
21. Notes 257
22. Bibliography 277
23. Contributors 305
24. Index 307