• Foreword / by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
• Introduction
• Crowd psychology redux
• The mimetic community
• The power of myth reloaded
• Coda. Fascism now and then: William Connolly and Nidesh Lawtoo in conversation.

• Acknowledgements Part I
• 1. Lessons Learnt, Lessons Lost: Pedagogies of Repression, Thoughtcrime, and the Sharp Edge of State Power - Aziz Choudry
• 2. The Surveillance State: A Composition in Four Movements - Radha D'Souza
• 3. Activist Learning and State Dataveillance: Lessons from the UK, Mauritius and South Africa - Jane Duncan Part II
• 4. Coming of Age Under Surveillance: South Asian, Arab and Afghan American Youth and Post-9/11 Activism - Sunaina Maira
• 5. ASIO and the Australia-Timor-Leste Solidarity Movement, 1974-79 - Bob Boughton
• 6. The Plantation-to-Plant-to-Prison Pipeline: David Austin Interviewed by Aziz Choudry
• 7. Forgetting National Security in `Canada': Towards Pedagogies of Resistance - Gary Kinsman
• 8. Prevent as Far-Right Trojan Horse: The Creeping Radicalisation of the UK National Security Complex - Nafeez Ahmed
• 9. Political Policing in the UK: A Personal Perspective - Emily Apple
• 10. Spies Wide Shut: Responses and Resistance to the National Security State in Aotearoa New Zealand - Valerie Morse Part III
• 11. Undercover research: Academics, activists and others investigate political policing - Eveline Lubbers Notes on Contributors Index.
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The use of secret police, security agencies and informers to spy on, disrupt and undermine opposition to the dominant political and economic order has a long history. This book reflects on the surveillance, harassment and infiltration that pervades the lives of activists, organisations and movements that are labelled as 'threats to national security'. Activists and scholars from the UK, South Africa, Canada, the US, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand expose disturbing stories of political policing to question what lies beneath state surveillance. Problematising the social amnesia that exists within progressive political networks and supposed liberal democracies, Activists and the Surveillance State shows that ultimately, movements can learn from their own repression, developing a critical and complex understanding of the nature of states, capital and democracy today that can inform the struggles of tomorrow.
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• 1. Globalizing or transcending global justice? Introduction to the special issue Uchenna Okeja
• 2. African and global justice Ifeanyi I Menkiti
• 3. Should African Thinkers Engage in the Global Justice Debate? Katrin Flikschuh
• 4. "Global justice" and indigenous African epistemologies: confronting the global matrix of power Dennis Masaka
• 5. I am Because You Are: Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Xenophobia Michael Onyebuchi Eze
• 6. Replacing development: an Afro-communal approach to global justice Thaddeus Metz
• 7. Ubuntu, Cosmopolitanism and Distribution of Natural Resources Edwin Etieyibo
• 8. Global justice as process: applying normative ideals of indigenous African governance Helen Lauer.
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In contemporary political philosophy, the subject of global justice has received sustained interest. This is unsurprising, given the nexus between inequality and many of the pressing global problems today, such as immigration, global public health, poverty and violence. Theorists of global justice ask why inequality is morally wrong, what we owe to the global poor, what the implications of global inequality for people in affluent countries are, and the power of agencies or institutions necessary for the realization of a fairer world. Although political philosophers have offered different conceptions of these problems and narratives of the ideal of justice, a major shortcoming of the current discussion are the limits of the concepts and idioms employed. Assumptions are made about the experience of poverty, but little is done to understand the way people in underdeveloped countries experience and understand their predicament. This has resulted in the entrenchment of cognitive inequality in the global justice debate. This book attempts to correct the inaccuracies engendered by the one-sided theorising of global justice. By employing metaphors, concepts and philosophical ideas to reflect on global justice, the book provides an account of global justice that goes beyond current parochial perspective. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Philosophical Papers.
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• Introduction: The ambivalence of good
• Prologue: The "pre-history" of human rights as a historiographical problem
• Human rights policy in the United Nations
• Human rights in the Council of Europe and in the Organization of American States
• NGOs and human rights
• Human rights and decolonization
• Amnesty Interntional and the reinvention of Western human rights activism
• Human rights in Western foreign policy
• The Pinochet dictatorship in international politics
• Human rights, communism, and dissidence in Eastern Europe
• Human rights in the postcolonial world
• Conclusion.

The Ambivalence of Good examines the genesis and evolution of international human rights politics since the 1940s. Focusing on key developments such as the shaping of the UN human rights system, decolonization, the rise of Amnesty International, the campaigns against the Pinochet dictatorship, the moral politics of Western governments, or dissidence in Eastern Europe, the book traces how human rights profoundly, if subtly, transformed global affairs. Moving beyond monocausal explanations and narratives prioritizing one particular decade, such as the 1940s or the 1970s, The Ambivalence of Good argues that we need a complex and nuanced interpretation if we want to understand the truly global reach of human rights, and account for the hopes, conflicts, and interventions to which this idea gave rise. Thus, it portrays the story of human rights as polycentric, demonstrating how actors in various locales imbued them with widely different meanings, arguing that the political field evolved in a fitful and discontinuous process. This process was shaped by consequential shifts that emerged from the search for a new world order during the Second World War, decolonization, the desire to introduce a new political morality into world affairs during the 1970s, and the visions of a peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War. Finally, the book stresses that the projects pursued in the name of human rights nonetheless proved highly ambivalent. Self-interest was as strong a driving force as was the desire to help people in need, and while international campaigns often improved the fate of the persecuted, they were equally likely to have counterproductive effects. The Ambivalence of Good provides the first research-based synopsis of the topic and one of the first synthetic studies of a transnational political field (such as population, health, or the environment) during the twentieth century. Based on archival research in six countries, it breaks new empirical ground concerning the history of human rights in the United Nations, of human rights NGOs, of far-flung mobilizations, and of the uses of human rights in state foreign policy.
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• 1. The American Revolution as the Last European Peasants' Rebellion.-
• 2. Consent, Representation and Liberty: America as the Last Medieval Society.-
• 3. Shades of Anarchy: The Concept of Lawful Rebellion in America.-
• 4. Men of Little Faith Facing the Modern State: The Country Party Ideology in Great Britain.-
• 5. When in the Course of Human Events.- Hobbes, Locke and the Long Parliament against America.-
• 6. The Great Derailment: Philadelphia Putsch of
• 1787 and the Coming of the American State.-
• 7.
• 1776 Strikes Back - Antifederalist Critics of the Constitution.-
• 8. The Compact Theory of the Union - A Revolution within a Form.-
• 9. Free Market in a Small Republic - Economic Doctrines of Jeffersonians and Jacksonians.-
• 10. The Last Stand: John C. Calhoun.-
• 11. Conclusion.
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This book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its "statesmen" during the 1780s, but rather in the political and social resistance to their efforts. There were two revolutions occurring in the late 18th century America: the modern European revolution "in favour of government, " pursuing national unity, "energetic" government and centralization of power (what scholars usually dub "American founding"); and a conservative, reactionary counter-revolution "in favour of liberty, " defending local rights and liberal individualism against the encroaching political authority. This is a book about this liberal counter-revolution and its ideological, political and cultural sources and central protagonists. The central analytical argument of the book is that America before the Revolution was a stateless, spontaneous political order that evolved culturally, politically and economically in isolation from the modern European trends of state-building and centralization of power. The book argues, then, that a better model for understanding America is a "decoupled modernization" hypothesis, in which social modernity is divested from the politics of modern state and tied with the pre-modern social institutions.
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• Foreword
• Adrien Wing
• Part 1: The Intersection of Gender and Human Rights Norms for Individuals of Arab Descent
• 1. Introduction. Gender, Identity and Human Rights
• Karla McKanders
• 2.Hijab as a Human Right
• Louise Cainkar
• 3. The Accession of Palestine to CEDAW: Quo Vadis?
• Mutaz M. Qafisheh
• Part 2: At Home: Arab Spring, Gender and Human Rights
• 4.The Sources of Patriarchal Authority in the Maghreb
• Fatima Sadiqi
• 5. Media Representations of Palestinian Women
• Halla Shoaibi
• Part 3: Impact of Gender on Arab Migration and Human Rights Norms
• 6. Reframing Violence Against Male Asylum Seekers from the Region as Gender-based Persecution
• Valorie Vojdik
• 7. Gender, Islamophobia and Refugee Exceptionalism
• Karla McKanders
• 8. Moroccan Women's Migration to Europe as a Transformative Experience
• Moha Ennaji.
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This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent. It seeks to raise consciousness at the intersection of gender, identity, and human rights as it relates to Arabs at home and throughout the diaspora. The context of revolution and the destabilizing impact of armed conflicts in the region are used to critique and examine the utility of human rights law to address contemporary human rights issues through extralegal strategies. To this end, the volume seeks to inform, educate, persuade, and facilitate newer or less-heard perspectives related to gender and masculinities theories. It provides readers with new ways of understanding gender and human rights and proposes forward-looking solutions to implementing human rights norms. The goal of this book is to use the context of Arabs at home and throughout the diaspora to critique and examine the utility of human rights norms and laws to diminish human suffering with the goal of transforming the structural, social, and cultural conditions that impede access to human rights. This book will be of interest to a diverse audience of scholars, students, public policy researchers, lawyers and the educated public interested in the fields of human rights law, international studies, gender politics, migration and diaspora, and Middle East and North African politics.
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Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government--hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Aristotle's time and in ours, democrats want inclusiveness; they want above all to include everyone a part of a whole. But what makes a whole? This is a question for both politics and philosophy, and Winthrop shows that Aristotle pursues the answer in the Politics. She uncovers in his political science the insights philosophy brings to politics and, especially, the insights politics brings to philosophy. Through her appreciation of this dual purpose and skilled execution of her argument, Winthrop's discoveries are profound. Central to politics, she maintains, is the quality of assertiveness--the kind of speech that demands to be heard. Aristotle, she shows for the first time, carries assertive speech into philosophy, when human reason claims its due as a contribution to the universe. Political science gets the high role of teacher to ordinary folk in democracy and to the few who want to understand what sustains it. This posthumous publication is more than an honor to Delba Winthrop's memory. It is a gift to partisans of democracy, advocates of justice, and students of Aristotle.
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• Introduction - Richard J. Dougherty
• PART 1. POLITICS, NATURE, AND VIRTUE St. Augustine and the Problem of Political Ethics - Richard J. Dougherty The Other Happy Life: The Political Dimensions to St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues - Michael Foley Peace and the Order of Nature: Augustine, Giles, and Dante - Peter Busch Deeds and Words: Latreia, Justice and Mercy in Augustine's Political Thought - Ashleen Manchaca-Bagnulo The Centrality of Justice in Augustine's Early Investigations - Adam Thomas
• PART 2. ST. AUGUSTINE AND ANCIENT POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY The Few, the Many, and the Universal Way of Salvation: Augustine's Point of Engagement with Platonic Political Thought - Thomas Harmon Augustine's Imitation in the Confessions of Plato's Teaching on Art and Politics in the Republic - Douglas Kries Augustine's Revision of Greek and Roman Esotericism - Ryan Balot Augustine's Ciceronian Response to the Ciceronian Patriot - Veronica Roberts Ogle City of God and Roman Sacral Politics - Daniel Strand Augustine and Platonic Political Philosophy: The Contribution of Joseph Ratzinger - Daniel E. Burns.
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Studies on Augustine have burgeoned over the past decade, but attention has focused primarily on his writings on philosophy and theology. Less attention has been given to his political teaching, despite his well-known and influential statements on politics, most notably in his City of God. This collection of essays examines Augustine's corpus with a view to understanding his political thought. Taking seriously what he has to say about politics, the contributors here begin with Augustine's own reflections on politics-and often in writings where one least expects to find such reflections, such as the autobiographical Confessions, his letters, and his sermons. The contributors then consider the ways in which Augustine's teaching relates to that of his predecessors, the classical thinkers, as well as to the thought of other medieval thinkers, revealing that Augustine both drew on and diverged from the classical tradition and influenced the political thought of later medieval and even modern thinkers. This important collection thus contributes to the history of political thought and to the study of the questions at the center of all Western political thought. RICHARD J. DOUGHERTY is professor of politics and chair of the Department of Politics at the University of Dallas.
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• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Preface and acknowledgements
• 1- The worlds of Authoritarian Corporatism in Europe and Latin America
• Antonio Costa Pinto and Federico Finchelstein
• 2--Corporatism and Italian Fascism
• Goffredo Adinolfi
• 3- Intellectuals in the Mirror of Fascist Corporatism
• at the Turning Point of Mid-Thirties
• Laura Cerasi
• 4- Self-fashioning of a conservative revolutionary: Salazar's corporatism and the international networks of the 1930's
• Jose Reis Santos
• 5-Mihaeli Manoilescu and the Debate and Practice of Corporatism in Romania
• Constantin Iordachi
• 6- Corporations against Corporatism in Quisling Norway,
• 1940 - 1950s
• Stein U. Larsen
• 7- Corporatism and Authoritarianism in Latin America. The first Wave
• Antonio Costa Pinto
• 8- From Rome to Latin America: the transatlantic influence of fascist corporatism
• Matteo Pasetti
• 9- A Travelling Intellectual of a Travelling Theory. Ramiro de Maeztu as a Transnational Agent of Corporatism
• Valerio Torreggiani
• 10- Fascism and corporatism in the thought of Oliveira Vianna. A creative appropriation
• Fabio Gentile
• 11-Law and Legal Networks in the interwar Corporatist Turn: The Case of Brazil and Portugal
• Melissa Teixeira
• 12-The appropriation of Manoilescu's The Century of Corporatism in Vargas' Brazil
• Angela de Castro Gomes
• 13-Corporatism, Dictatorship and Populism in Argentina
• Federico Finchelstein
• 14- Nationalist Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Chile
• Mario Sznadjer
• 15- The Global Circulation of Corporatism. Concluding Remarks
• Sven Reichardt
• Bibliography
• Index.
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What drove the horizontal spread of authoritarianism and corporatism between Europe and Latin America in the 20th century? What processes of transnational diffusion were in motion and from where to where? In what type of `critical junctures' were they adopted and why did corporatism largely transcend the cultural background of its origins? What was the role of intellectual-politicians in the process? This book will tackle these issues by adopting a transnational and comparative research design encompassing a wide range of countries.
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• Introduction : saving liberal democracy from itself
• Individualism versus individuality
• Interference, independence, and what's worth doing
• Autonomy
• Freedom, rights, and conflicts between values
• Ethics and rules
• Exploring consequences
• The ethical point of view
• Objective ethics : the good
• Objective ethics : the right
• Negotiating ethically
• Why think ethically?
• Ethical heroism.

This book shows how the United States can begin dealing with the most difficult and intractable political issues that afflict liberal democracy today: by initiating an inclusive public practice of ethical dialogue and deliberation. Explains that the fundamental problem with liberalism today is its flawed conception of individualism, which discourages people from thinking ethically when forming our political beliefs and policy preferences Contends that beliefs about good and bad, right and wrong can be objective if understood as propositions of a factual nature, and that a conception of the good for human beings is implicit in the fulfillment of empirically identified human needs Asserts that people can begin dealing effectively with the most difficult and intractable political issues that afflict liberal democracy today by initiating a constructive, productive public practice of ethical dialogue and deliberation Issues a call for "ethical heroism" to build such a practice in order to begin reversing the dispiriting effects of contemporary liberalism and its faulty conception of individualism.
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• Regards théoriques
• Ce qu'il y a de commun dans la réalité humaine
• Biens communs ou communs ? Entre économie, droit et politique
• La relation : au coeur de la question des biens communs
• De la préservation de la nature à l'intendance du territoire : la difficile renaissance du commun
• Biens communs et développement territorial : éléments de réflexion autour des enjeux de gouvernance
• Regards opérationnels
• "Et pour vous le bien commun c'est une question de... ?". Récit d'une tentative d'exercice d'intelligence collective
• Un réseau "Biens publics mondiaux" initié par une collectivité. Provocation ou construction collective ?
• La construction d'une connaissance partagée entre l'État et les collectivités locales
• Un témoignage d'assistance aux collectivités territoriales visant une gestion en bien commun
• Une île en cadeau. L'histoire d'un film et d'une île, dans la grande Histoire de l'Écosse
• Regards de grands témoins : entretiens
• Entretien avec Patrick Boucheron
• Entretien avec Philippe Descola
• Entretien avec Patrick Viveret.

"La figure des "biens communs" est aujourd'hui un paradigme émergent dans de nombreux champs disciplinaires. Elle couvre un spectre très large allant de ressources naturelles comme l'air, l'eau ou la terre à des biens immatériels comme les logiciels libres ou les encyclopédies en passant par l'habitat participatif, le travail ou la santé. Elle constitue un objet d'étude aussi bien pour les économistes ou les juristes que pour les géographes ou les politistes. Parallèlement, elle émerge comme catégorie d'action et de compréhension des territoires dans le champ de l'aménagement ou de l'urbanisme opérationnel. Enfin, différentes initiatives issues de la société civile se réfèrent, explicitement ou non, à cette notion. Mise en valeur par les travaux d'Elinor Ostrom (prix Nobel d'Économie 2009), elle propose une autre manière de concevoir l'organisation des rapports sociaux, économiques ou politiques en dessinant une sorte de troisième voie qui sort de l'alternative dichotomique opposant l'État au marché, le privé au public voire l'homme à l'environnement dans la préservation et la gestion des ressources. Elle offre ainsi la possibilité de dépasser un clivage binaire qui structure encore largement notre rapport au monde. L'enjeu de cet ouvrage collectif, qui rassemble des contributions interdisciplinaires et croise une réflexion théorique et des expérimentations opérationnelles, est d'éclairer cette notion et de voir en quoi, en tant qu'objet mais aussi par le processus qui l'institut, elle constitue un paradigme opératoire pour comprendre et concevoir les rapports des hommes aux territoires et à l'environnement mais aussi les rapports des hommes entre eux."--Page 4 of cover.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction
• 1. Edwardian Crisis, 1900-14
• 2. Patriotism Strained, 1914-18
• 3. Breaking the Coalition, 1918-22
• 4. Democracy and Empire, 1922-35
• 5. Consensus and Disunity, 1935-40 Retrospect and Prospect Bibliography.
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Britannia's Zealots, Volume I opens the first longitudinal study to examine the Conservative Right from the late-19th century to the present day. British Conservatism has always contained a significant section fundamentally opposed to progressive reform. A permanent minority in Parliament, dissident right-wing Conservatives nevertheless had allies in the press and sympathy among grassroots party members enabling them to create crises in the media and at party meetings. N.C. Fleming charts the evolution of reactionary politics from its preoccupation with the Protestant constitution to its fixation with the prestige and strength of Britain's global empire. He examines the overlooked ways in which Conservative Right parliamentarians shaped their party's policies and propaganda, in and out of office, and their relationships with the press and ordinary activists. He seeks to demonstrate that this influence could be circumscribing, and on occasion highly disruptive, with consequences which remain relevant for today's Conservative party. Britannia's Zealots, Volume I will be of great interest to academics and students of British history, right-wing politics, imperialism, and 20th century history.
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• History
• The end of history
• Cultural difference
• Origins of difference
• Geography
• The market
• Good government
• Freedom as obligation
• Social problems
• Immigration
• The future of primacy
• Policy directions.

Burdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was the chief reason why first Europe, then Britain, and finally America came to lead the world. But today, our deepest problems derive from groups and nations that reflect the more passive, deferential temperament of the non-West. The long-term poor and many immigrants have difficulties assimilating in America mainly because they are less inner-driven than the norm. Abroad, the United States faces challenges from Asia, which is collective-minded, and also from many poorly-governed countries in the developing world. The chief threat to American leadership is no longer foreign rivals like China but the decay of individualism within our own society. The great divide is between the individualist West, for which life is a project, and the rest of the world, in which most people seek to survive rather than achieve. This difference, although clear in research on world cultures, has been ignored in virtually all previous scholarship on American power and public policy, both at home and abroad. Burdens of Freedom is the first book to recognize that difference. It casts new light on America's greatest struggles. It re-evaluates the entire Western tradition, which took individualism for granted. How to respond to cultural difference is the greatest test of our times.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Patronage, power and the state--
• 3. Patronage, resource mobilization and aid dependency--
• 4. Parties, elections, and civil society under electoral authoritarianism--
• 5. The rise of countermovement to electoral authoritarianism--
• 6. The return to authoritarianism--
• 7. Conclusion - will the pendulum swing?
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Drawing data from multiple sources, Un argues that following the 1993 United Nations intervention to promote democracy, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) perpetuated a patronage state weak in administrative capacity but strong in coercive capacity. This enabled them to maintain the presence of electoral authoritarianism, but increased political awareness among the public, the rise in political activism among community-based organizations and a united opposition led to the emergence of a counter-movement. Sensing that this counter-movement might be unstoppable, the CPP has returned Cambodia to authoritarianism, a move made possible in part by China's pivot to Cambodia.
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• 1. Assessing human rights implementation in Southeast Asia--
• 2. Understanding the tensions and ambiguities in Southeast Asian attitudes towards human rights--
• 3. The utility of human rights mechanisms in the ASEAN region--
• 4. Operationalising human rights in ASEAN-- Conclusion: taking human rights seriously in ASEAN.
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The adoption of the ASEAN Charter in 2007 represented a watershed moment in the organisation's history - for the first time the member states explicitly included principles of human rights and democracy in a binding regional agreement. Since then, developments in the region have included the creation of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights in 2009 and the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration in 2012. Despite these advances, many commentators ask whether ASEAN can take human rights seriously. The authors explore this question by comprehensively examining the new ASEAN human rights mechanisms in the context of existing national and international human rights institutions. This book places these regional mechanisms and commitments to human rights within the framework of the political and legal development of ASEAN and its member states and considers the way in which ASEAN could strengthen its new institutions to better promote and protect human rights.
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• 1. Assessing human rights implementation in Southeast Asia--
• 2. Understanding the tensions and ambiguities in Southeast Asian attitudes towards human rights--
• 3. The utility of human rights mechanisms in the ASEAN region--
• 4. Operationalising human rights in ASEAN-- Conclusion: taking human rights seriously in ASEAN.
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The adoption of the ASEAN Charter in 2007 represented a watershed moment in the organisation's history - for the first time the member states explicitly included principles of human rights and democracy in a binding regional agreement. Since then, developments in the region have included the creation of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights in 2009 and the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration in 2012. Despite these advances, many commentators ask whether ASEAN can take human rights seriously. The authors explore this question by comprehensively examining the new ASEAN human rights mechanisms in the context of existing national and international human rights institutions. This book places these regional mechanisms and commitments to human rights within the framework of the political and legal development of ASEAN and its member states and considers the way in which ASEAN could strengthen its new institutions to better promote and protect human rights.
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• 1. Désirer désobéir

• [volume] 1.
• Perte et soulèvement
• Le fond de l'air est rouge
• Freiheitsdrang, la "poussée de liberté"
• Zéros de conduite
• Depuis les profondeurs
• S'élève un geste
• D'accablement à soulèvement
• Pour jeter sa douleur par-dessus bord
• Puissance contre pouvoir, ou l'acte du désir
• Duende de la transgression
• Le temps de la révolte
• Masse et puissance
• Même le nouveau-né se soulève
• Désir, lutte, domination, reconnaissance
• Éros politique
• Qu'est-ce qu'un geste critique ?
• Amères vérités, idées trop pures
• Vinaigres et belles âmes
• Puissance de ne pas, ou la politique du désoeuvrement
• Refuser, ou la puissance de faire autrement
• Désirer, désobéir, faire violence
• Le message des papillons
• "Esprit de révolte" : les vagues se forment et se propagent
• Torrents et barricades
• Où va donc la colère ?
• Flux et reflux, ressacs dialectiques
• "Un drapeau tour à tour rouge et noir..."
• Images, puissances critiques
• Les émotions en partage
• "La vie est à nous"
• Multitudes, essaims, communautés
• Sans noms, sans nombres, en tous lieux
• Dos au mur (un ghetto en lutte)
• Comment hériter d'un courage ?
• Incessamment faire le mur
• L'art de la vie autre, ou comment n'être pas gouverné
• Réveil aux rêves : se lever, voler de ses propres ailes
• Le sujet recommence : prises de parole et arts de faire
• Images et sons à bout de bras
• Retourner les cendres, en remonter quelques braises.

""Nous avions beaucoup enduré et puis, un jour, nous nous sommes dit que cela ne pouvait plus durer. Nous avions trop longtemps baissé les bras. A nouveau cependant - comme nous avions pu le faire à l'occasion, comme d'autres si souvent l'avaient fait avant nous - nous élevons nos bras au-dessus de nos épaules encore fourbies par l'aliénation, courbées par la douleur, par l'injustice, par l'accablement qui régnaient jusque-là. C'est alors que nous nous relevons : nous projetons nos bras en l'air, en avant. Nous relevons la tête. Nous retrouvons la libre puissance de regarder en face. Nous ouvrons, nous rouvrons la bouche. Nous crions, nous chantons notre désir. Avec nos amis nous discutons de comment faire, nous réfléchissons, nous imaginons, nous avançons, nous agissons, nous inventons. Nous nous sommes soulevés." Ce livre est un essai de phénoménologie et d'anthropologie - voire une poétique - des gestes de soulèvement. Il interroge les corps avec la psyché à travers le lien profond, paradoxal, dialectique, qui s'instaure entre le désir et la mémoire. Comme il y a "ce qui nous regarde" par-delà "ce que nous croyons voir" ; il y aurait peut-être "ce qui nous soulève" par-delà "ce que nous croyons être". C'est une question posée en amont - ou en dedans - de nos opinions ou actions partisanes : question posée, donc, aux gestes et aux imaginations politiques. Question posée à la puissance de se soulever, même lorsque le pouvoir n'est pas en vue. Cette puissance est indestructible comme le désir lui-même. C'est une puissance de désobéir. Elle est si inventive qu'elle mérite une attention tout à la fois précise (parce que le singulier, en l'espèce, nous dit plus que l'universel) et erratique (parce que les soulèvements surgissent en des temps, en des lieux et à des échelles où on ne les attendait pas)."--Page 4 of cover.