On Gender, Alterity and Human Rights

Freedom in a Fishbowl

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5085568
AutoresRatna Kapur (0000-0001-7867-4038, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume122
Fascículo1
Páginas167-171
Data de publicação2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0141778919847398
OpenAlexW2976160481
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências 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