Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights

by Lara Montesinos Coleman

In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle. Drawing on her extensive involvement with grassroots social movements in Colombia, Coleman observes that mainstream expressions of human rights have become counterparts to capitalist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478020822
• ISBN13: 9781478020820
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"