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Mick and James discuss the concept of Human Rights and how they sometimes fail to ensure people around the world are treated with dignity.
Sources:
Human Rights as Moral Progress? A Critique by Jarett Zigon
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 716–736. ISSN 0886-7356, online ISSN 1548-1360. C 2013 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/cuan.12034
Agamben, Arendt and Human Rights: Bearing Witness to the Human. 2012
John Lechte & Saul Newman
State of Exception. 2005
Giorgio Agamben, translated by Kevin Attell
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
Simone Weil. Routledge Classics 2002
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