Dr Birgit Schippers, a senior lecturer in Politics at the College, has had her editorial work acknowledged through the release of a new book, Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, published by Rowman and Littlefield International in September 2018. As well as writing the introduction, Dr Schippers also contributed a chapter - Towards a Posthumanist Conception of Human Rights? - to Part I of the book.

The book provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the significance of human rights for critical theory and practice. While the contributions engage sensitively, yet thoroughly, with the regulatory, disciplinary, and exclusionary effects of human rights, they do so without giving up on the transformative potential of human rights. By thinking productively through the exclusions, paradoxes and aporias of human rights, the book is a key reference text for students and scholars in this important area of inquiry.