"This multidisciplinary volume explores the relationship between human rights and the subject. Each chapter considers how human rights norms and practices affect the way we relate to ourselves, to other people, and to the non-human world, drawing on the best work on human rights in political theory, cultural studies, history, law, anthropology, literary studies, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction : bringing the subject of human rights into focus /Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre -- The relational self as the subject of human rights / Jennifer Nedelsky -- The misbegotten monad : anthropology, human rights, belonging / Mark Goodale -- "Are women animals?" : the rise and rise of (animal) rights / Joanna Bourke -- Indigenous peoples as the subject of human rights / Danielle Celermajer and Michael Dodson -- "Escaped" : gendered precarity and human rights recognition / Wendy S. Hesford -- Training subjects for human rights / Danielle Celermajer -- Who deserves inalienable rights? : the subjectivity of violent state officials and the implications for human rights protection / Rachel Wahl -- Human rights as therapy : the healing paradigms of transitional justice / Ronald Niezen -- Cinematic aesthetics and the subjects of human rights : on Eliane Caffé's Era o hotel Cambridge / Andrew C. Rajca -- Human rights as spiritual exercises / Alexandre Lefebvre -- The child subject of human rights / Linde Lindkvist -- The secular subject of human rights / Jenna Reinbold -- The subject of human rights : an interview with Samuel Moyn / Samuel Moyn and Alexandre Lefebvre.