{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F5f5c5baf-f4d4-44e5-8a20-cfad8095627f","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Episode 10 \u2013 Kathryn McNeilly : Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/5f5c5baf-f4d4-44e5-8a20-cfad8095627f\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 10 \u2013 Kathryn McNeilly : Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation","description":"Dr Amanda Kramer interviews Dr Kathryn McNeilly about her book https://www.routledge.com/Human-Rights-and-Radical-Social-Transformation-Futurity-Alterity-Power/McNeilly/p/book/9781138690219 (Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation: Futurity, Alterity, Power) (Routledge, 2017) which was shortlisted for the 2018 https://www.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes?id=296 (Hart-SLSA Early Career Prize). This episode has been released early to coincide with the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference 2018 Dr Kathryn McNeillyKathryn McNeilly is a Lecturer in QUB School of Law. Her research intersects the areas of human rights, critical legal theory and feminist/gendered thought. In 2017 Kathryn published https://www.routledge.com/Human-Rights-and-Radical-Social-Transformation-Futurity-Alterity-Power/McNeilly/p/book/9781138690219 (Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation: Futurity, Alterity, Power) (Routledge) which was shortlisted for the 2018 https://www.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes?id=296 (Hart-SLSA Early Career Prize). In this work Kathryn explores the possibility to use human rights in contemporary radical politics, offering a way for human rights to be revived to better speak back to power through considering the future-focused elements at the heart of rights. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10691-018-9365-4 (Reviewing the book), Illan rua Wall (Warwick) states \u2018the prose is crisp, the theory is handled with a deft touch and the arguments are perfectly weighted\u2019. You can find out more about Kathryn\u2019s research https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/kathryn-mcneilly(464c4e02-1d65-41e2-b872-75d0a6a58579).html (here). Dr Amanda Kramer Amanda is a Research Fellow in the School of Law, Queen\u2019s University Belfast. She is currently working on an ESRC funded project, 'Brexit and Northern Ireland: The Constitutional, Conflict Transformation, Human Rights and Equality Consequences'. Amanda completed her PhD, entitled \u2018Law and Policy in Africa: Postcolonialism and the DRC, Mali, and Nigeria\u2019 in 2017 in the School of Law, Queen\u2019s University Belfast.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/934e1cf4-b809-48ff-8a25-73f24d3e74de/vALNznPwgHs8e6VvGun3AV_s.jpg"}