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Gender, alterity and human rights : freedom in a fishbowl
Verfasst von:
Kapur, Ratna
Cheltenham, UK:
Edward Elgar Publishing
,
2020
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307 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Link: | Volltext |
| Verfasst von: | Kapur, Ratna |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Elgar studies in legal theory
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| Ausgabe: | Paperback edition |
| Jahr: | 2020 |
| Maße: | 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1839104473 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. This book builds on the critique of this mainstream and official position on human rights, drawing attention to how human rights have been deployed to advance political and cultural intents rather than bring about freedom for disenfranchised groups. Its approach is unique insofar as it focuses on queer, feminist and postcolonial human rights advocacy, exposing how such interventions have at times advanced neo-liberal agendas and new forms of imperialism, and enabled a carceral politics rather than producing freedom for their constituencies. Through a focus on campaigns for same-sex marriage, ending violence against women, and the Islamic veil bans in liberal democracies, human rights emerge as forms of governance that operate through normative prescriptions, which bind even as they purport to free, and establish a hierarchy of the human subject: who is human and who is not; who qualifies for rights and who does not. This book argues that the futurity of human rights rests in a transformative engagement with non-liberal registers of freedom beyond the narrow confines of the liberal fishbowl. | |
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| Originally published: 2018 | |
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