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...physical security, material means of subsistence, development of capacities, enjoyment of liberties, and so forth. These necessary preconditions for the exercise of moral agency form the basis of human rights. The idea of human rights is designed to advance core values associated with basic needs, interests and liberties relating to what it is to be human and live a human...

...physical ability to carry them out. It meant that the rest of us then said, OK, so how can we do this? And I’ve had so many wonderful volunteers in the last eight years who’ve been helping with this, and they’ve done some really brilliant things, and we’ve had all sorts of exciting things happening to help fundraise, which have got more and more people involved....

...physics. Concepts in the social sciences can be ‘slippery customers’ (Heywood, 2013, p. 18). In this section, we have looked at only one concept – politics – and you can already see what a ‘slippery customer’ it can be. There are many more concepts, the meaning of which are, to a greater or lesser extent, contested. Contests over these concepts are not just...