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Rights - Richard Gunn

This short paper, published in the Edinburgh Review's 'Encyclopaedia' section, was written at a time when rights discourse was on the eve of establishing its hegemony in political theory. Seen in retrospect, the paper tests the air and senses the links between rights-based thinking and emergent neoliberalism. Because the piece is in this way linked to a specific “historical” situation, the 1987 text has been changed as little as possible – although the website version makes some mainly verbal alterations. The footnotes, which draw upon an originally-given short list of “further readings”, are a new (2013) addition. A reader of the piece is reminded that – despite all too frequent present-day rhetoric – an attack on the view that moral and ethical judgements may usefully be seen in terms of rights is not the same thing as an attack on moral and ethical judgements per se. ....

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More reading, and even more listening: How the pandemic has affected literature in Bhutan


More reading, and even more listening: How the pandemic has affected literature in Bhutan
Two lockdowns in the mountain kingdom have not blocked the effort to get more people to read.
Bhutan Echoes festival: A reading session with Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck.
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Bhutan Echoes Drukyul Festival
In the Kingdom of Bhutan, where Covid-19 is relatively well controlled, every new episode of the pandemic still leaves us wondering what’s next. Two nationwide lockdowns have disrupted the easy life in a country of 750,000 people. The pandemic has caused social and economic upheavals with the closure of borders, the stoppage of trading, the shut-down of schools and colleges. ....

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