Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire write by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen. This book was released on 2023-06-24. Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use theatrical, multisensorial strategies to denunciate the violence against enslaved people and make a claim for their rights? The Spanish context is particularly interesting because of its early tradition of human rights thinking in the Salamanca School (especially Bartolomé de Las Casas), developed in relation to slavery and colonialism. Taking its point of departure in forensic aesthetics, the book analyzes five forms of non-narrative theatricality: allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic and tragic.
The Enlightenment on Trial
The Enlightenment on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Enlightenment on Trial write by Bianca Premo. This book was released on 2017-01-19. The Enlightenment on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants who sued their superiors in the royal courts of Spain's American colonies. Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment science, the writing of history, and statecraft, the region is conventionally believed to have taken an alternate route to modernity. This book grapples with the contradiction between this legacy and eighteenth-century Spanish Americans' active production of concepts fundamental to modern law. The Enlightenment on Trial offers readers new insight into how Spanish imperial subjects created legal documents, fresh interpretations of the intellectual transformations and legal reform policies of the period, and comparative analysis of the volume of civil suits from six regions in Mexico, Peru and Spain. Ordinary litigants in the colonies--far more often than peninsular Spaniards--sued superiors at an accelerating pace in the second half of the eighteenth century. Three types of cases increased even faster than a stunning general rise of civil suits in the colonies: those that slaves, native peasants and women initiated against masters, native leaders and husbands. As they entered court, these litigants advanced a new law-centered culture distinct from the casuistic, justice-oriented legal culture of the early modern period. And they did so at precisely the same time that a few bright minds of Europe enshrined new ideas in print. The conclusion considers why, if this is so, the Spanish empire has remained marginal to the story of the advent of the modern West.
Human Rights on Trial
Human Rights on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights on Trial write by Justine Lacroix. This book was released on 2018-05-31. Human Rights on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.
Infidels and Empires in a New World Order
Infidels and Empires in a New World Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infidels and Empires in a New World Order write by David M. Lantigua. This book was released on 2020-06-18. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americas.
The Future of Human Rights
The Future of Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future of Human Rights write by Upendra Baxi. This book was released on 2007-12-12. The Future of Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. The work analyses the significance of the United Nations (UN) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and goes on to study the more contemporary issues such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the postmodernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current world scene, it analyses the impact of globalization on the human rights movement. The volume includes a discussion on the proposed UN norms regarding the human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations and other business entities.
