Author(s): Fontes, Paulo Vitorino ; Cunha, Silvério ; Balla, Evanthia ; Viparelli, Irene ; Vasques, Rafael Franco
Date: 2023
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6784
Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
Subject(s): Direitos Humanos; Politics Publics
ABSTRACT: The current political order is marked by large, interconnected spaces, that come to expose more than ever the fragilities of a post-Westphalian sovereignty paradigm, anchored in the national imaginary (Rocha-Cunha 2020). Political and economic cleavages, vulnerable democracies, and social polarizations present in today’s globalized world place human rights at the centre of the academic debate of the political realm. Under this prism, in this volume we hope to contribute to a re-evaluation of the current political crises and the need for human rights-centred political alternatives. The chapters that com prise this book are structured around a transdisciplinary meth odological framework, that reflects the evolving and complex affirmations of human rights quest in an ongoing scholarly dis cussion. All the chapters take a critical analysis approach to a wide range of theoretical frameworks and political and institutional settings. All chapters involve problems that are simultaneously situated upstream and downstream of the themes explored here. In effect, they start from the observation that the political models, both internal and international, bear the brunt of the difficulties of the modern paradigms of politics and rights, of the reductionist anthropology and scientism that marked the birth of our world. Humanist and nihilistic values have emerged from these difficulties, which have brought to the present day productivism, possessive individu alism, complex exclusions around the regulation and redistribution of goods and authoritarian forms of exercising power. We can thus define two major critical lines in the present moment.
