Poverty and Human Rights

Edited by Suzanne Egan, Associate Professor, School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland and Anna Chadwick, Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Contents:

1 Introduction: Poverty and human rights –
a multidimensional concept in search of multidimensional
collaboration 1
Suzanne Egan

PART I CRITICAL DEBATES
2 Keeping human rights out of poverty 23
Vittorio Bufacchi
Poverty and the rhetoric of human rights: a reply to Bufacchi 35
Jesse Tomalty
3 China, extreme poverty and consequentialist theories of
human rights 38
Graham Finlay
4 The legal construction of poverty: examining historic
tensions between property rights and subsistence rights 54
Julia McClure
5 Human rights, poverty and capitalism 68
Anna Chadwick
6 (Post)human rights, poverty and inequality: problems of
algocracy, pharmocracy and chemocracy 91
Su-Ming Khoo
7 Planet and people: making human rights distributive by design 105
Wouter Vandenhole
8 On the possibility of justified subsistence wars 122
Lonneke Peperkamp and Ronald Tinnevelt

PART II CASE STUDIES
9 An emphasis on social rights: a boost for the UK’s popular
rights discourse? 139
Aoife Daly and Alan Connolly
10 The provision of social assistance in Ireland and Spain:
a human rights assessment 156
María Dalli
11 Operationalising rights-based approaches to development:
chinks in the armour observed through a study of
anganwadi workers in Odisha, India 171
Nita Mishra
12 Afterword: Poverty and human rights 188
Anna Chadwick

Index 199