Fagan, Andrew (2023) Taking Social Class Seriously. Human Rights Quarterly, 45 (2). pp. 260-282. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2023.0013
Fagan, Andrew (2023) Taking Social Class Seriously. Human Rights Quarterly, 45 (2). pp. 260-282. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2023.0013
Fagan, Andrew (2023) Taking Social Class Seriously. Human Rights Quarterly, 45 (2). pp. 260-282. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2023.0013
Abstract
This article critically analyses the human rights perspective upon the rising poverty and inequality afflicting increasing numbers of people within high-income, liberal democratic societies. I argue that the human rights community is largely failing to diagnose and respond effectively to this systemic injustice suffered by many. Developing upon existing scholarship in this area, I account for our continuing failure by focusing upon social class and argue that the human rights community is afflicted by a form of class-blindness. I then develop the basis for overcoming our continuing neglect of social class, enroute to what I argue is urgently needed if human rights is to provide the kind of political and ethical leadership required for effectively engaging with poverty and inequality in affluent societies: the de-gentrification of human rights.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Essex Law School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 25 May 2023 12:46 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 21:32 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35665 |
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