Rethinking human rights and global constitutionalism : from inclusion to belonging /
"Constitutionalism understood broadly is a concept that addresses emergence, restriction and legitimation of power and authority. Traditionally, concepts of constitution and constitutionalism developed from within particular communities, mostly states"--
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- A Context and Plan of Work
- B On Methodology
- 1 Agamben and Philosophical Archaeology
- 2 Deleuze and Guattari: Machinic Assemblage and How It Functions
- 3 Building Blocks, Paradigms: Time-Travel Machines?
- 1 Paradigms of Global Constitutionalism
- A Situating Global Constitutionalism
- B Theories of Constitutionalism: Questions, Gaps, Issues
- 1 Individuals within Global Constitutionalism
- A) The State of the Art: The Individual as an Equilibrium Pointb) From Active Inclusion to Confrontation of Modalities Exclusion
- c) Private Sponsorship of Refugees as a Confrontation of Modalities of Exclusion
- 2 States in Global Constitutionalism
- a) Overview of Current Debates in International Constitutionalism
- b) State Thinking as a Structuring Device
- (1) Bourdieuâ#x80;#x99;s Methodological Remarks
- (2) Constitution of the State
- (3) Characteristics of the State
- (a) Symbolic Violence/Power
- (b) Public/Official and Universal
- (4) Reading the Global with Bourdieu(a) Transnational Societal Constitutionalism
- (b) Postnational Pluralism
- c) Conclusions
- 3 Politics of International Constitutionalism
- a) Law over Politics in International Constitutionalism
- (1) Considering Democracy
- (2) The Active Subject and the Political
- (a) Schmitt: Friend and Enemy
- (b) Agamben: Whatever Singularity and Belonging
- (c) Prospects of Global Constitutionalism in Light of Visions of the Political
- b) Conclusions
- C Distilling Paradigms
- 2 Mechanisms and Modalities of Human Rights in Global ConstitutionalismA Introduction
- B State of the Art: Human Rights in International Constitutionalism
- C Constitutions and the Functioning of Rights: Domestic Experience
- 1 Methodological Remarks and the Functioning of Constitutions
- 2 Specifics of Fundamental Rights Functioning
- D Beyond the Domestic Constitutional Experience
- 1 Approaching the Functioning of Human Rights from a Sociological Perspective
- 2 How Human Rights Function within the Global Context: Three Possible Answers
- A) Luhmann and Two Ways(1) Maintaining a Global Normative System
- (2) Disappearance of the Need for Law
- (3) Summary and Transition
- b) Thornhill and the Fusion of Law and Politics
- c) Teubner and Constitutionalisation without Politics
- 3 (Un)certainties of Human Rights Functioning
- E Conclusions
- 3 The Other of Human Rights and Global Constitutionalism
- A Before the Law: Controlling Power in Ancient Greece
- 1 From Community to Individual in Ancient Greece
- 2 From Ancient Greece to Contemporary International Law
