Add to ORKGWhat do we (think we) speak about when we speak of Human Rights? Mostly we think that we speak of the fate of the vulnerable Human-being in her beingness in the world. Given this assumption, three recurring perplexities- of territoriality, parochiality-imperiality and coloniality – appear to preoccupy much critical thinking on the subject. I suggest a different reason underpins the invention and operation of Human Rights. I argue that Human Rights, as a (post)colonial technology of subjectification, operates in perverse coherence, to rationalize and regulate the global (b)ordering of differentiated subject-beingness: of license, containment and abandonment. As such efforts that aim to rescue Human Rights for the human-subject merely reinfor...
Do human rights constitute a new world ethos (Weltethik)? And are these rights one of the few places...
Here I seek to explore the cosmopolitan foundations of the idea of human rights. The argument begins...
The human rights often are cited as an ultimate goal for the discipline of social science. It guides...
AbstractThe historical progression of the idea of ‘Rights’ and ‘Citizenship’ are embedded in a narra...
Human rights are, literally, the rights we have simply because we are human. They are equal rights: ...
The idea of human rights, although often discussed as if its meaning were self-evident, is, in reali...
The much-lamented anthropocentrism of human rights is misleading. Human rights anthropocentrism is r...
The concept of human rights, supposedly of universal importance, is usually derived from the traditi...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via th...
The key to understanding human rights law critically and contextually lies, counterintuitively, outs...
International discourse on human rights law has seldom explored the potential and promise of the int...
Claudio Corradetti’s Human rights and critical theory is an argument for the idea of pluralistic uni...
Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. The rising populist tide that puts nation, rel...
The ethnocentric legacy of human rights discourse is expressed in individualistic legal and moral ap...
One of the major theory-based problems for human rights is that they lack an agreed ontological foun...
Do human rights constitute a new world ethos (Weltethik)? And are these rights one of the few places...
Here I seek to explore the cosmopolitan foundations of the idea of human rights. The argument begins...
The human rights often are cited as an ultimate goal for the discipline of social science. It guides...
AbstractThe historical progression of the idea of ‘Rights’ and ‘Citizenship’ are embedded in a narra...
Human rights are, literally, the rights we have simply because we are human. They are equal rights: ...
The idea of human rights, although often discussed as if its meaning were self-evident, is, in reali...
The much-lamented anthropocentrism of human rights is misleading. Human rights anthropocentrism is r...
The concept of human rights, supposedly of universal importance, is usually derived from the traditi...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via th...
The key to understanding human rights law critically and contextually lies, counterintuitively, outs...
International discourse on human rights law has seldom explored the potential and promise of the int...
Claudio Corradetti’s Human rights and critical theory is an argument for the idea of pluralistic uni...
Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. The rising populist tide that puts nation, rel...
The ethnocentric legacy of human rights discourse is expressed in individualistic legal and moral ap...
One of the major theory-based problems for human rights is that they lack an agreed ontological foun...
Do human rights constitute a new world ethos (Weltethik)? And are these rights one of the few places...
Here I seek to explore the cosmopolitan foundations of the idea of human rights. The argument begins...
The human rights often are cited as an ultimate goal for the discipline of social science. It guides...