The Human Right to Dominate (Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics) 1st Edition

by Nicola Perugini (Author), Neve Gordon (Author)

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At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals.

In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights--generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices--are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize domination. Using Israel/Palestine as its main case study, The Human
Right to Dominate describes the establishment of settler NGOs that appropriate human rights to dispossess indigenous Palestinians and military think-tanks that rationalize lethal violence by invoking human rights. The book underscores the increasing convergences between human rights NGOs, security
agencies, settler organizations, and extreme right nationalists, showing how political actors of different stripes champion the dissemination of human rights and mirror each other's political strategies.

Indeed, Perugini and Gordon demonstrate the multifaceted role that this discourse is currently playing in the international arena: on the one hand, human rights have become the lingua franca of global moral speak, while on the other, they have become reconstrued as a tool for enhancing domination.

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"Nourished by a profound knowledge of the intricacies of the situation in Israel and Palestine, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon uncover a remarkable paradox of contemporary society: how the claim for human rights can coexist with the use of violence and serve purposes of domination. Their convincing
analysis invites a critical rethinking of the global moral order." -Didier Fassin, editor of Moral Anthropology and Contemporary States of Emergency

"This is a stunning book. The clarity and insight of The Human Right to Dominate should be required reading for anyone concerned with human rights. The aim of the authors is not to debunk the concept, but to suggest that it must be open to a critical reinterpretation that subverts, rather than
reinforces, relations of domination." -Joan W. Scott, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study

"For Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, if we celebrate the idea of human rights when progress occurs, we must also blame it when things go wrong. And their disturbing book on the fate of human rights in Israel/Palestine in the last decade shows why - not least when illegal settlers claim the ideals
for themselves. But while wary of easy uplift, The Human Right to Dominate ultimately calls for saving human rights from what they have become in an age when states usually win and our highest values can help launder endless wars." -Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

"The Human Right to Dominate is a highly original, provocative, and timely contribution. Perugini and Gordon offer a critical realist examination of the state of human rights in light of the fact that states, militaries, and other national security actors have used the language of human rights to
justify wars, occupations, and extra-judicial executions. This, they argue, is not a misappropriation but a paradoxical consequence of the successful elevation of human rights language into a globalized normative framework." -Lisa Hajjar, author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court
System in the West Bank and Gaza

"This fascinating study of human rights is sure to receive much criticism for the way that Perugini and Gordon examine human rights. In particular, they are intrigued by the connection that is forming between human rights and domination.... Recommended." -CHOICE

"Not only does this book invite a critical reflection of the global moral order but it is a definite must read for anyone truly concerned with the state of human rights in our world today. Perugini and Gordon have used their profound knowledge of the intricacies of the Palestinian-Isreal situation
to wisely and urgently suggest a critical reinterpretation of HR that subverts relation of domination." -Law & Society Review

"Perugini and Gordon have made a welcome contribution to the growing range of scholarship that takes a hard, critical look at what the human rights system has become. The book stands in conversation with the likes of Stephen Hopgood, Mark Mazower, Samuel Moyn, and Winfred Tate among others, who have
chipped away at the naive and idealistic assumptions, interrupting the 'narrative of global salvation and redemption through human rights' (p.27) by examining the empirical realities of how human rights function in the world, for good or for ill, and always for politics" ---Global Discourse

"Some human rights are less human than others. [...] Perugini's and Gordon's deconstructive work constitutes a healthy antidote that allows us to identify the traps that surround us when we try to elaborate the language of universal rights within the framework of state power". ---Lo Straniero

"The tight relationship between human rights and the sovereign state has elicited significant critical attention (Agamben, 1998; Arendt [1951] 1968; Douzinas, 2000; cf. Cohen, 2012), and Perugini and Gordon (2015) make an important contribution to this literature as they examine Israel's creation as
a representative example of 'the constitutive relationship between human rights, national statecraft, and domination' (Perugini and Gordon, 2015: 30)"---Ayten Gündoğdu, Journal of International Political Theory

About the Author

Nicola Perugini is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle East Studies and Italian Studies at Brown University.

Neve Gordon is Professor of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University and author of Israel's Occupation.

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Publisher

‎Oxford University Press; 1st edition (June 26, 2015)

Language

‎English

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‎216 pages

ISBN-10

‎0199365008

ISBN-13

‎978-0199365005

Item Weight

‎12.5 ounces

Dimensions

‎9.1 x 0.9 x 6.1 inches

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Nicola Perugini
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Nicola Perugini is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2012/2013), a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University (2014-2016), and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2017-2019). He has taught at the American University of Rome, the Al Quds Bard College in Jerusalem where he also directed the Human Rights Program, Brown University, and the University of Bologna. He has served as consultant for UNESCO and UN Women. His opinion pieces have appeared in Al Jazeera English, LRB Blog, the Nation, the Huffington Post, the Conversation, Open Democracy, the Herald.
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Neve Gordon
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Neve Gordon teaches in the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London. He is currently interested in human rights, international humanitarian law and their relation to state sanctioned violence. Neve has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the Watson Institute at Brown University, and at SOAS University of London. During the first intifada, he was the director of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel - and ever since has written a great deal about Israel and the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Gordon is the co-editor of Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel, the editor of From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, author of Israel's Occupation, and the co-author of The Human Right to Dominate and Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire. His writings have appeared in numerous scholarly journals as well as in publications like The Guardian, The Nation, Al Jazeera, The London Review of Books, The Los Angles Review of Books, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education and The LA Times.
Neve Gordon lives in London and can be reached at @nevegordon.
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Hugh Sansom

Great, Accessible Case Study in the Shift in Thinking and Practice in Human Rights

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015

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Outstanding example of intellectually rigorous, but accessible research. Perugini and Gordon are among a number of scholars and legal thinkers who have observed a change in the debate over human rights around the world -- and especially in the US and western democracies. The greatest example of this may be the Citizens United decision and the argument by conservatives that corporations have a status as "persons" and have rights. You can also see the conservative trend in responses to the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision: Some are claiming a right to defy the Court's decision on the grounds that their right to worship is being violated. This book ties into work by Samuel Moyn ("The Last Utopia") on the history of thinking about human rights in the 20th century.

Perugini and Gordon focus particularly on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Those who strongly endorse Israel's Likud policies may bristle, but they should look past that to the larger arguments the authors are making.

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moses

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016

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Just shows how Zionist & Jews can a wrong into a right

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The Searles

Thoroughly recommend it.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2017

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A must read for anyone interested in Human Rights Organisations. Raises well argued concerns about the future of HROs, in the light of disruptive propaganda by pseudo neoconservative NGOs. Thoroughly recommend it.

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