What’s new in human rights doctoral research - Vol. VIII

This volume presents nine state-of-the-art analyses prepared by Ph.D. students at the University of Padova and beyond. Through an interdisciplinary lens, these contributions interrogate the frontiers of digital vulnerability, the “self-exploitation” and ethnicized hierarchization of migrant labor, and the legal hurdles of ecocide. By deconstructing the “physics” of energy transitions and confronting the postcolonial “participation-power gap” in the UN’s performative reviews, the research demands a decolonization of the knowledge-power nexus. From “anticipatory design” as a survival mechanism in the Anthropocene to the threats of “techno-feudalism,” this volume offers a comprehensive roadmap for reconstructing a just, dialogic, and sustainable global horizon.