Sociology of Human Rights (SO213)

Welcome to the website of Sociology of Human Rights,

a new module for sociology undergraduates at Warwick

Sociology of Human Rights: The Module in 10 Points

Module Requirements

Outline and reading list: Term 1 / Term 2

Access to PDF readings

Lectures

Videos

Assessed Essay Questions Terms 1 & 2

Contact:

Convenor

 Robert Fine

robert.fine@warwick.ac.uk

 Website

Office Hours: By appointment, Room B.1.37

Seminar Tutors

 Rodrigo Cordero Vega

R.A.Cordero-Vega@warwick.ac.uk

 Website

Office Hours: Thursday, 14.30-16.00, Room R.3.19

  Joshua Lowe

j.s.lowe@warwick.ac.uk

Office Hours: TBA

Short web address: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sociology_of_human_rights

PDF Readings

To download the required readings, please follow this link:

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/main/electronicresources/extracts/so/so213

(Course Scanned Extracts, Main Library)

or check the following list (2nd term):

- Zizek, Slavoj (2005) 'Against Human Rights', New Left Review 34 

- Ranciere, Jacques (2004) 'Who is the subject of human rights?', South Atlantic Quarterly 103 (2/3) 

- Brunkhorst, Hauke (2008) 'The Legitimation Crisis of Human Rights' 

- Fine, Robert (2011) 'Dehumanising the dehumanisers: the problem of reversal in human rights discourse', Journal for Global Ethics (special issue on 'Critical Theory and the Language of Violence')  

- Hunt, Lynn (2007) Inventing Human Rights  Ch2,  Ch3,  Ch4,  Ch5, Int

- Anghi, Antony (2004) 'On Making War on the Terrorist: Imperialism as Self-defence', in Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law 

- Douzinas, Costas (2007) Human Rights and Empire, Ch1 

- Fine, Robert (2010) 'Political Argument and the Legitimacy of International Law' 

- Neumann, Franz (1937) 'The Change in the Function of Law in Modern Society' 

- Arendt, Hannah (1969) 'Thoughts on Politics and Revolution', in Crises of the Republic 

- Poulantzas, Nicos (1978) 'Law and Terror', in State, Power, Socialism 

- Kapur, Ratna (2005) Erotic Justice, Ch 4 

- Butler, Judith (2008) 'Sexual politics, torture and secular time', British Journal of Sociology 59 (1) 

- Fine, Robert (2002) Democracy and the Rule of Law, Ch2 , Ch4, and Ch7

- Fine, Robert (2007) Cosmopolitanism, Ch5 , Ch6

- Marx, Karl (1844) 'On the Jewish Question' 

- Pashukanis, Evgeni (1983) Law and Marxism, Ch4

- Thompson, Edward (1976) Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act, Conclusion (section 'The Rule of Law')