TY - JOUR
T1 - The crisis and the quotidian in international human rights law
AU - Authers, Benjamin
AU - Charlesworth, Hilary
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - This chapter considers the idea that international human rights law is both produced by and dependent upon crisis. Surveying the capaciousness, ambiguity, and constructedness of the concept, we position the relative weight given to particular rights in terms of their framing as 'crises'. We focus on how the idea of crisis has been differently deployed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the division between civil and political rights and economic, cultural and social rights to argue for a critical engagement with the language of crisis in human rights law, and to ask how that language has shaped the value and meaning of rights discourse more generally.
AB - This chapter considers the idea that international human rights law is both produced by and dependent upon crisis. Surveying the capaciousness, ambiguity, and constructedness of the concept, we position the relative weight given to particular rights in terms of their framing as 'crises'. We focus on how the idea of crisis has been differently deployed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the division between civil and political rights and economic, cultural and social rights to argue for a critical engagement with the language of crisis in human rights law, and to ask how that language has shaped the value and meaning of rights discourse more generally.
KW - Civil and political rights
KW - Crisis
KW - Economic cultural and social rights
KW - International human rights law
KW - Universal declaration of human rights
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84902456248&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-6265-011-4-2
DO - 10.1007/978-94-6265-011-4-2
M3 - Article
SN - 0167-6768
VL - 44
SP - 19
EP - 39
JO - Netherlands Yearbook of International Law
JF - Netherlands Yearbook of International Law
ER -