TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction: Human rights, interdisciplinarity, and the time of utopia
AU - Authers, Benjamin
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1080/1323238X.2016.11910939
DO - 10.1080/1323238X.2016.11910939
M3 - Article
SN - 1323-238X
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Australian Journal of Human Rights
JF - Australian Journal of Human Rights
IS - 2
ER -