Edmunds Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-61240-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Cosmopolitanism, as an intellectual and political project, has failed. The portrayal of human rights, especially European, as evidence of cosmopolitanism in practice is misguided. Cosmopolitan theorists point to the rise of claims-making to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) among Europe’s Muslims to protect their right to religious freedom, mainly concerning the hijab, as evidence of cosmopolitan justice. However, the outcomes of such claims-making show that far from signifying a cosmopolitan moment, European human rights law has failed Europe’s Muslims.

Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism provides an empirical examination of claims-making and government policy in Western Europe focusing mainly on developments in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands. A consideration of public debates and European law of conduct in the public sphere shows that cosmopolitan optimism has misjudged the magnitude of the impact claims-making among Europe’s Muslims. To overcome this cul-de-sac, European Muslims should turn to a new ‘politics of rights’ to pursue their right to religious expression.

This eye-opening book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying subjects such as Sociology, Human Rights, Minority Rights, Cosmopolitanism and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmunds, June

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 HUMAN RIGHTS AS A ‘COSMOPOLITAN MOMENT’ cHAPTER 3 POST-NATIONAL THEORY,

CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS cHAPTER 4 THE RISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM CHAPTER 5 LITIGATING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

CHAPTER 6 EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND THE MYTH OF COSMOPOLITANISM CHAPTER 7 FROM COSMOPOLITANISM TO

SECURITIZATION CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION

Über Autor(innen)

June Edmunds is a University Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK and an affiliated Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.