Abstract
This article is a commentary on the article: “What do Human Rights Do? An Anthropological Inquiry” by Talal Asad, Theory & Event, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2000). Talal Asad’s essay was published in the year 2000 in the immediate aftermath of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia. The author examines Asad’s essay on human rights in the context of an account of the transformation of human rights discourses in the period since its publication.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 137-151 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Theory and Event |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- human rights
- neoliberalism
- civilian war casualties
- Amnesty International
