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Vulnerability and Human Rights

Vulnerability and Human Rights Book Reviews / Societies Without Borders 2 (2007) 291–298 293 Vulnerability and Human Rights by Bryan S. Turner (University Park, PA: Th e Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, 160 pp., soft cover, $19.95). Reviewer : Brian Gran, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Human rights continue to dominate academic and policy debates all over the world. In some corners, human rights are under siege, with critics attacking their cultural prejudices and biases toward western socio-political and legal traditions. In other corners, human rights are considered imprac- tical because of implementation challenges and missing ingredients, such as economic resources. Yet many advocate that human rights are not only essential to countering despotic governments, human rights are essential tools for prompting NGOs and others to intervene on behalf of people whose national governments are indifferent or worse to their suffering and oppression. Bryan Turner, a leading intellectual and one of the world’s most impor- tant sociologists, claims that human rights are needed because everyone is vulnerable. As part of the Essays on Human Rights Series, in his book Vulnerability and Human Rights , Turner contends that we must strengthen and advance human rights because of the vulnerabilities we share. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Societies Without Borders Brill

Vulnerability and Human Rights

Gran, Brian
Societies Without Borders , Volume 2 (2): 293 – Jan 1, 2007
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Brill
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1871-8868
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Book Reviews / Societies Without Borders 2 (2007) 291–298 293 Vulnerability and Human Rights by Bryan S. Turner (University Park, PA: Th e Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, 160 pp., soft cover, $19.95). Reviewer : Brian Gran, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Human rights continue to dominate academic and policy debates all over the world. In some corners, human rights are under siege, with critics attacking their cultural prejudices and biases toward western socio-political and legal traditions. In other corners, human rights are considered imprac- tical because of implementation challenges and missing ingredients, such as economic resources. Yet many advocate that human rights are not only essential to countering despotic governments, human rights are essential tools for prompting NGOs and others to intervene on behalf of people whose national governments are indifferent or worse to their suffering and oppression. Bryan Turner, a leading intellectual and one of the world’s most impor- tant sociologists, claims that human rights are needed because everyone is vulnerable. As part of the Essays on Human Rights Series, in his book Vulnerability and Human Rights , Turner contends that we must strengthen and advance human rights because of the vulnerabilities we share.

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