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It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways.
Judith Butler
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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
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Cleveland
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Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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