Rethinking the international order - towards the zeroth generation of human rights: This article revisits the idea of the three generations of human rights in a new context where each generation of rights has become inverted or eviscerated, as substantive human rights are hollowed out by the operations of transnational capital. This shift compromises basic assumptions underpinning each  generation  of human rights, driving the subject of rights towards  Stark Utopia , Karl Polanyi s term for unequalizing market globalization, and its extreme and consequential effects. The current critiques of human rights liberalism coincide with possible collapse of the basic  floor  of assumptions underpinning human rights universalism. Repeated retrogression of human rights laws, norms and values render the ambition of progressive realization less and less achievable as baseline standards are eroded. This article frames current human rights retrogressions in a broader posthuman imaginary.

Su-Ming Khoo

Rethinking the international order - towards the zeroth generation of human rights: This article revisits the idea of the three generations of human rights in a new context where each generation of rights has become inverted or eviscerated, as substantive human rights are hollowed out by the operations of transnational capital. This shift compromises basic assumptions underpinning each generation of human rights, driving the subject of rights towards Stark Utopia , Karl Polanyi s term for unequalizing market globalization, and its extreme and consequential effects. The current critiques of human rights liberalism coincide with possible collapse of the basic floor of assumptions underpinning human rights universalism. Repeated retrogression of human rights laws, norms and values render the ambition of progressive realization less and less achievable as baseline standards are eroded. This article frames current human rights retrogressions in a broader posthuman imaginary.

Su-Ming Khoo

Political Science & Sociology

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Original language	English (Ireland)
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Event	Multilateralism and Interdependence: Prospects and Challenges . 2018 - Duration: 2 May 2018 → …

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Conference	Multilateralism and Interdependence: Prospects and Challenges . 2018
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Khoo, S.-M. (2018). Rethinking the international order - towards the zeroth generation of human rights: This article revisits the idea of the three generations of human rights in a new context where each generation of rights has become inverted or eviscerated, as substantive human rights are hollowed out by the operations of transnational capital. This shift compromises basic assumptions underpinning each generation of human rights, driving the subject of rights towards Stark Utopia , Karl Polanyi s term for unequalizing market globalization, and its extreme and consequential effects. The current critiques of human rights liberalism coincide with possible collapse of the basic floor of assumptions underpinning human rights universalism. Repeated retrogression of human rights laws, norms and values render the ambition of progressive realization less and less achievable as baseline standards are eroded. This article frames current human rights retrogressions in a broader posthuman imaginary.. Paper presented at Multilateralism and Interdependence: Prospects and Challenges . 2018.

Khoo, Su-Ming. / Rethinking the international order - towards the zeroth generation of human rights : This article revisits the idea of the three generations of human rights in a new context where each generation of rights has become inverted or eviscerated, as substantive human rights are hollowed out by the operations of transnational capital. This shift compromises basic assumptions underpinning each generation of human rights, driving the subject of rights towards Stark Utopia , Karl Polanyi s term for unequalizing market globalization, and its extreme and consequential effects. The current critiques of human rights liberalism coincide with possible collapse of the basic floor of assumptions underpinning human rights universalism. Repeated retrogression of human rights laws, norms and values render the ambition of progressive realization less and less achievable as baseline standards are eroded. This article frames current human rights retrogressions in a broader posthuman imaginary. Paper presented at Multilateralism and Interdependence: Prospects and Challenges . 2018.

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Khoo, S-M 2018, 'Rethinking the international order - towards the zeroth generation of human rights: This article revisits the idea of the three generations of human rights in a new context where each generation of rights has become inverted or eviscerated, as substantive human rights are hollowed out by the operations of transnational capital. This shift compromises basic assumptions underpinning each generation of human rights, driving the subject of rights towards Stark Utopia , Karl Polanyi s term for unequalizing market globalization, and its extreme and consequential effects. The current critiques of human rights liberalism coincide with possible collapse of the basic floor of assumptions underpinning human rights universalism. Repeated retrogression of human rights laws, norms and values render the ambition of progressive realization less and less achievable as baseline standards are eroded. This article frames current human rights retrogressions in a broader posthuman imaginary.', Paper presented at Multilateralism and Interdependence: Prospects and Challenges . 2018, 2/05/18.

Rethinking the international order - towards the zeroth generation of human rights: This article revisits the idea of the three generations of human rights in a new context where each generation of rights has become inverted or eviscerated, as substantive human rights are hollowed out by the operations of transnational capital. This shift compromises basic assumptions underpinning each generation of human rights, driving the subject of rights towards Stark Utopia , Karl Polanyi s term for unequalizing market globalization, and its extreme and consequential effects. The current critiques of human rights liberalism coincide with possible collapse of the basic floor of assumptions underpinning human rights universalism. Repeated retrogression of human rights laws, norms and values render the ambition of progressive realization less and less achievable as baseline standards are eroded. This article frames current human rights retrogressions in a broader posthuman imaginary. / Khoo, Su-Ming.
2018. Paper presented at Multilateralism and Interdependence: Prospects and Challenges . 2018.

Research output: Contribution to conference (Published) › National Refereed Conference Paper

Khoo SM. Rethinking the international order - towards the zeroth generation of human rights: This article revisits the idea of the three generations of human rights in a new context where each generation of rights has become inverted or eviscerated, as substantive human rights are hollowed out by the operations of transnational capital. This shift compromises basic assumptions underpinning each generation of human rights, driving the subject of rights towards Stark Utopia , Karl Polanyi s term for unequalizing market globalization, and its extreme and consequential effects. The current critiques of human rights liberalism coincide with possible collapse of the basic floor of assumptions underpinning human rights universalism. Repeated retrogression of human rights laws, norms and values render the ambition of progressive realization less and less achievable as baseline standards are eroded. This article frames current human rights retrogressions in a broader posthuman imaginary.. 2018. Paper presented at Multilateralism and Interdependence: Prospects and Challenges . 2018.