58319 Rights and Territories

'Rights' – human, cultural, social, economic and political – sit centre-stage in global and local debates about justice and power. 'Territories' – states and nations, sovereignty and authority – are the basis upon which 'rights' claims are generated and pursued. This subject interrogates the historical and contemporary development of 'rights' and examines, in particular, the ways in which 'territories' are organised and disorganised (institutionally and discursively) through the politics of these 'rights' claims. In doing this, students engage with ideas and fields of practice that traverse legal, political, economic and social theory and institutions.