Introduction: Human Rights across Borders
Chapter 1: Perplexities of Human Rights
Chapter 2: Human Rights as Politics and Anti-politics
Chapter 3: Borders of Personhood
Chapter 4: Expulsion from Politics and Humanity
Chapter 5: Declarations of A Right to Have Rights
Conclusion: The Struggle Remains Undecided
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Ayten Gündogdu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College-Columbia University.
"In her bold and erudite book on human rights, Ayten Gündogdu has
achieved two results: a critical reading of Hannah Arendt, using
her 'perplexities' to reveal her thought about statelessness and
the right to have rights, and a deconstruction of paradoxes
affecting 'universal rights' in our post-totalitarian age, as
illustrated by the situation of migrants. The 'undecided struggle'
that she describes is grim, but also an eloquent plea for the
capacity of
victims to become agents of their own history." --Étienne Balibar,
author of Equaliberty
"Ayten Gündogdu knows she cannot rest content with asking what
Hannah Arendt would say about human rights now, which have risen
and transformed so substantially over the past half-century. In
this marvelous book, Gündogdu reinterprets Arendt's critique, and
revises it where necessary, in order to vindicate a promising new
approach for the field. Rejecting their deployment as a rhetoric of
compassionate aid or even military intervention, Gündogdu
shows a truly political vision of human rights will engage the
social realm and prompt the reinvention of claims and movements
beyond their contemporary limitations. The result is an exemplary
lesson in how to
connect past thinking with present realities." --Samuel Moyn,
Harvard University
"Bristling with insights into the plight of migrants in today's
global economy, Gündogdu's book offers a creative rereading of
Hannah Arendt's controversial critique of human rights. She
perceptively grasps that the key insight in Arendt's difficult
notion of a 'right to have rights' is not to ground rights in a
normative foundation but to reanimate them as quotidian political
practices of founding. In this way, Gündogdu offers a fresh
response to the
tenacious problems of rightlessness which at once includes and goes
well beyond juridical appeals to the sovereign state." --Linda
Zerilli, University of Chicago
"In this provocative work, Gündogdu begins from Arendt's
observation that stateless persons cannot exercise human rights
that should be universal when they do not possess citizenship
rights. Essential. General readers, upper-division undergraduate
students, graduate students, and research faculty." --Choice
"Rightlessness in an Age of Rights is both a rich engagement with
the current debates about Arendtian philosophy, and a fascinating
attempt to theoretically grasp instances of migrant protests, court
decisions on migrant rights, and struggles for the "right to have
rights." ... For readers interested both in Arendt's work and in
issues of migration and refugees, this book is a jewel." --
International Journal of Constitutional Law
"Sure-handedly combining theoretical analysis, textual
interpretation, and attention to the realities of border
checkpoints, detention centers, refugee camps, and courtrooms,
Gündogdu manages the difficult feat of throwing light on the world
while (and by) saying something surprising and persuasive about
Arendt's political thought." - Patchen Markell, Review of
Politics
"Ayten Gündogdu provides an impressive re-reading of the vast
output of Hannah Arendt. ... She not only re-interprets the meaning
of the well-known and much-debated Arendtian expression 'a right to
have rights,' but illustrates what rightlessness looks like today,
for instance in relation to asylum procedures, detention and
deportation. ... Gündogdu's contribution is a reinforced quest for
a global community within which people can take part, speak,
and act as equal human beings, irrespective of nationality or
citizenship." -Theoria
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