A01=David McGrogan
Author_David McGrogan
Category=JPA
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Category=LBBR
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freedom
global governance
governmentality
human rights
international law
managerialism
Michael Oakeshott
Michel Foucault
pastoral power
the state
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- ISBN 9781526131829
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights’ evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the ‘human rights performance’ of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the ‘governmentalisation’ of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.
David McGrogan is Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School
