Human Rights as Political Imaginary
In this book, López proposes the ‘political imaginary’ model as a tool to better understand what human rights are in practice, and what they might, or might not, be able to achieve. Human rights are conceptualised as assemblages of relatively stable,
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Human Rights as Political Imaginary
José Julián López
Human Rights as Political Imaginary
José Julián López University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON, Canada
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For Telsing, my imaginary
Acknowledgements
This book has long been in the making, but it would not have been written were it not for the existence of institutions such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which provided funding for the research, and my own academic institution, the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. It is an enormous privilege to receive part of the national wealth, generated through taxation, in the form of research funding, and as a salary to teach, research, and participate in communities of knowledges. For this, I wish to express my deepest gratitude. It is typical in the acknowledgements of academic books to name the readers and interlocutors, both known and anonymous, to thank them for their contributions. Such acknowledgements remind us that academic research is always already a collective effort. I have greatly profited from comments, critiques, and insights from many individuals. They know who they are because I have thanked them in person. I reiterate my profound gratefulness for the collective nature of academic work. However, in the spirit of this book, which draws attention to the c
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