Danielle Celermajer is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Alexandre Lefebvre is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney.

"This multidisciplinary volume explores the relationship between human rights and the subject. Each chapter considers how human rights norms and practices affect the way we relate to ourselves, to other people, and to the non-human world, drawing on the best work on human rights in political theory, cultural studies, history, law, anthropology, literary studies, and philosophy"--

Introduction: Bringing the Subject of Human Rights into Focus
 —Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre
1. The Relational Self As the Subject of Human Rights
 —Jennifer Nedelsky
2. The Misbegotten Monad: Anthropology, Human Rights, Belonging
 —Mark Goodale
3. "Are Women Animals?": The Rise and Rise of (Animal) Rights
 —Joanna Bourke
4. Indigenous Peoples As the Subject of Human Rights
 —Danielle Celermajer and Michael Dodson
5. "Escaped": Gendered Precarity and Human Rights Recognition
 —Wendy S. Hesford
6. Training Subjects for Human Rights
 —Danielle Celermajer
7. Who Deserves Inalienable Rights?: The Subjectivity of Violent State Officials and the Implications for Human Rights Protection
 —Rachel Wahl
8. Human Rights As Therapy: The Healing Paradigms of Transitional Justice
 —Ronald Niezen
9. Cinematic Aesthetics and the Subjects of Human Rights: On Eliane Caffé's Era o Hotel Cambridge
 —Andrew C. Rajca
10. Human Rights As Spiritual Exercises
 —Alexandre Lefebvre
11. The Child Subject of Human Rights
 —Linde Lindkvist
12. The Secular Subject of Human Rights
 —Jenna Reinbold
13. The Subject of Human Rights: An Interview with Samuel Moyn
 —Samuel Moyn and Alexandre Lefebvre