[Reader-list] New rights - new publication

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New online journal Re-public has just published the special issue "New rights". The issue explores how the notion of 'new rights' challenges the primary categories through which modern democracy has been conceived and practiced . Articles include:  

Ulrich Beck - Rights: Beyong methodological nationalism   < http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=167 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=167+> > 

Leading contemporary sociologist Ulrich Beck points to the need of rethinking human rights on a transnational level. 

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Bonnie Honig - The time of rights: Emergent thoughts in an emergency setting    < http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=158 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=158>  >

Bonnie Honig argues that new rights unsettle chronological time. They plunge us into plural timeframes 

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Paola Cavalieri - Animals: For an expanded theory of human rights < http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=151 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=151>  > 

What can it mean to extend fundamendal rights beyond the boundaries of our species, asks Paola Cavalieri.

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 Michael Geist - The open access principle  < http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=152 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=152>  >

Michael Geist call for open approaches to publishing, as means of stengthening digital rights and creating a better-informed society. 

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All articles of Re-public are published with a Creative Commons license and can be re-printed freely, by acknowledging their source. 


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