Introduction: Human rights, interdisciplinarity, and the time of utopia

Benjamin Authers

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    Abstract

    This article explores the relationship between human rights and utopian thinking through three recurrent tropes: interdisciplinarity, time and the promise. Utopia, like human rights, is shaped by its interdisciplinary engagement with multiple fields of knowledge, by its invocation of the past, present and future as ways of addressing contemporary problems, and by a promissory language, often unfulfilled, of social change and betterment. These interconnected ideas suggest that an attention to the dialogue between utopian thought and human rights can open up new conceptual possibilities, even as those possibilities often fail, or are themselves partial.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1-15
    JournalAustralian Journal of Human Rights
    Volume22
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

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