The Aporia of Rights
Sat, 13 Dec
|Gleebooks
The Whitlam Institute invites you to the launch of a new book, The Aporia of Rights: Explorations in Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights, edited by Whitlam Institute Professorial Fellow, Anna Yeatman and Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Peg Birmingham.
Time & Location
13 Dec 2014, 4:00 pm
Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
About the Event
Explorations in citizenship in the era of human rights
invites you to the launch of a new book, edited by Whitlam Institute Professorial Fellow, Anna Yeatman and Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Peg Birmingham.The Whitlam Institute, The Aporia of Rights: Explorations in Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights
will be launched by Dr Tim Soutphommasane, Race Discrimination Commissioner.The Aporia of Rights
is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Anna Yeatman and Peg Birmingham show through this collection of works a space for a vital engagement with the politics of human rights.The Aporia of Rights
is a Professorial Fellow in the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney. She is a political and social theorist who also…