Vernacular rights cultures : the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice

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    • Madhok, Sumi

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Vernacular rights cultures : the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice

Sumi Madhok

Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-210) and index

Summary: "This book addresses two central questions: What does it mean to shift the epistemic centre of human rights thinking and to decolonise global human rights? And, how to study the 'active' conceptual, empirical, epistemic and political life of rights in 'most of the world'? To address these questions, this book introduces and develops the framework of vernacular rights cultures. The study of vernacular rights cultures is an interdisciplinary, conceptual, epistemic, methodological and empirical project. It intervenes in the current impasse of human rights debates to offer a framework through which the complexity and dynamism of rights-based mobilisations might be analytically captured, not simply as those which are mimetic, and engaged in the translation, enactment and localization of 'global human rights', but rather as those which have their specific languages of rights and entitlements grounded in specific political imaginaries, justificatory premises and subjectivities. ..."

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内容説明

Vernacular Rights Cultures offers a bold challenge to the dominant epistemologies and political practices of global human rights. It argues that decolonising global human rights calls for a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically specific encounters with human rights, and of the forms of world-making that underpin the stakes and struggles for rights and human rights around the globe. Through combining ethnographic investigations with political theory and philosophy, it goes beyond critiquing the Eurocentrism of global human rights, in order to document and examine the different political imaginaries, critical conceptual vocabularies, and gendered political struggles for rights and justice that animate subaltern mobilisations in 'most of the world'. Vernacular Rights Cultures demonstrates that these subaltern struggles call into being different and radical ideas of justice, politics and citizenship, and open up different possibilities and futures for human rights.

目次

  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. An Introduction: Vernacular Rights Cultures in South Asia and Decolonizing Human Rights
  • 2. Human Rights, Political Agency, and Refusing the Politics of Origins
  • 3. Assembling a Feminist Historical Ontology of Haq in South Asia
  • 4. The Political Imaginaries of Haq: 'Citizenship' and 'Truth'
  • 5. Resisting Developmentalism and the Military: Haq as a Cosmological Idea and an Islamic Ideal
  • 6. Conceptual Diversity, Feminist Historical Ontology and a Critical Reflexive Politics of Location: A Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index.

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