At the core of Struggles for the Human lies the struggle for human rights. Lara Montesinos Coleman dares ask the question that many a jaded critic has already relinquished: Does a radical potential remain in human rights, a system that has been widely acknowledged in...
Human rights rise to geopolitical significance in the 1980s and 90s, and since then we have seen important waves of Marxist, poststructuralist, postcolonial and feminist critiques. At particular moments we see fresh texts setting new agendas, creating new...
I agree with Ntina Tzouvala when she says that the book “resists easy categorisation” and, thus, an “easy review process.” Perhaps one reason for this difficulty both of us encountered was because the book, “was never meant to be” (p. xxxi). As Oishik points, this was...
Extract from Roger Cotterrell’s ‘Afterword: Trust and Critique after Three Decades’ in Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell, eds Nick Piška and Hayley Gibson, available fair access from COUNTERPRESS. ‘Power, Property and the Law of Trusts: A...
It was a pleasure reading Oishik Sircar’s “Violent Modernities”, which is an excellent and essential read for anyone interested in a broader understanding of constitution, law, rights, citizenship and the postcolonial state. Although the focus of the book is on India,...
The Stage When Hegel wrote the Phenomenology of Spirit (2004) in 1807, he had one thing in mind. He wanted to provide an accurate philosophical and scientific process through which the mind comes to acquire knowledge of oneself and the world. Hegel, like Kant and...
