On Gender, Alterity and Human Rights

Freedom in a Fishbowl

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5085568
AutoresRatna Kapur (0000-0001-7867-4038, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen122
Número1
Páginas167-171
Fecha de publicación2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0141778919847398
OpenAlexW2976160481
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas10

This book is about the possibility of freedom in the aftermath of the critique of human rights.Human rights are axiomatic with freedom, quite specifically liberal freedom.I invoke the metaphor of the fishbowl as representing the liberal constellation that shapes and disseminates mainstream human rights advocacy and scholarship as well as particular understandings of freedom.Freedom within a liberal paradigm is envisaged as an external pursuit, involving the accumulation of rights by a rational, finite, and individual subject, and void of political preoccupations and outcomes.I demonstrate how the critical legal project, including postcolonial and feminist interventions, has successfully dismantled the faade of this claim exposing the substantive political effects, contingency of universality, and hierarchy of the subject that structures human rights.Building on the existing critiques, I illustrate how human rights emerge as a governance and regulatory endeavour specifically in relation to gender and alterity, and how more rights for women, sexual and religious

Alterity · Epistemology · Feminism · Human rights · Human sexuality · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · Cultural Studies · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy