Community of Rights - Rights of Community enters into a dialogue with
global communities about the meaning of being human and having rights.
This book makes an important contribution to the discussion about global
human rights, and it should be on the shelves of advocates and activists
everywhere.
-This book is a major contribution to a new discourse on the notion of
rights in relation to community. [Roger Clark, former Secretary General
of Amnesty International]
-This important book on the recovery of community rights shows how we
lost our collective freedoms and how we can reclaim them. [Vandana
Shiva, author]
-Stunning. [Upendra Baxi]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Upendra Baxi
Introduction
Section 1: 'All life being one life': The 'Common' Good, Rights, and the
Meaning of Community
1. Preamble: The Parable of the Flute
2. Corporate Personhood and the Attack on the Commons
3. Distracted Community: Facebook and the Real of the Illusion
4. Particulated Community vs. Interconnected Communities: The Challenges
of Viral Resistance
5. The Ends of Community: Rethinking the Commons
6. Community and Total War
7. Community and Meaning: The Problem of Relational Contingencies
8. Assumed Communities and Unavowable Communities
9. 'All life being one life: ' The Ethics of Encounter and
'Being-with'
10. The Unpossessed Community: Coyote's Story
Section 2: 'None can survive unless all survive': Community, Story,
Land - Making the Connections
1. Indigeneity and Sacred Geographies Versus Imperialist Monoculture
2. The Law of the Land
3. Community Conflicts With the State
4. Revolutionary Community: The Case of Gerrard Winstanley and the
Diggers
5. Feeding the People / People Feeding Themselves
6. Earth As the Basis of Democracy / Democracy in Support of the Earth
7. Education and Development in an Ecology of Knowledges
Section 3: 'Freedom ... to rise above a cruel planet': The Paradox of
Global Community - Neo-Colonialism Versus Evolving Ecologies
1. Story and Imagination: Some Contexts For Thinking Global Community
2. Diasporic and Fractured Communities: The Global Story of Liu
Chunlan
3. State Surveillance and Policing Versus Community-based Conflict
Resolution: The Global Story of Robert Dziekanski
4. 'Thieving' / Labouring Community: Scapegoating Untouchables
5. Communitarian Values and the Politics of Self-Sameness: Community At
/ Beyond the Borders
6. Concerted Community: Sun Ra's Improvised / Improvising Communities
and the Creative Commons
7. Revisionary Histories and Healing Stories
Section 4: 'Choice words set a seed in the child': Event Horizons of the
Possible and Kiviuq's Story
1. Community Beyond Measure: 'Everything is one'
2. Coda: The Parable of Kiviuq
Works Cited
Index
