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Sumi Madhok - Vernacular Rights Cultures, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Vernacular Rights Cultures

Av Sumi Madhok

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Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-03-21
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
  • Vikt: 336 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 228
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009423939
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Sumi Madhok is Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Rethinking Agency: Gender, Developmentalism and Rights (2013), co-editor of Gender, Agency and Coercion (2013) and The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory (2014).

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'Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggles for Justice should be essential reading for all political and feminist theorists working on the concept of human rights. In this profoundly original book, Madhok offers us a way through and beyond choices between 'west' and 'non-west' in human rights theory. She shows us that the choice between universalism and particularism in rights theory is mistaken, and that rights are always produced and put to work as part of political struggles in a vernacular which is neither fixed nor self-contained. She uses the tools of feminist historical ontology and ethnography to demonstrate how epistemic agency and authority in the conception of rights is constructed, reconstructed and mobilised within the political imaginaries of haq by women living multiple axes of oppression.' Kimberly Hutchings, author of Time and World politics: Thinking the Present

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