Being Right-With
On Human Rights Law as Unfreedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12290447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Peter Kalule (0000-0002-1468-3290, London South Bank University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 243-264 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-3622 • E-ISSN: 1572-8455 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10691-022-09500-x |
| OpenAlex | W4309485606 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
This paper develops the notion of being right-with, a conceptual lens that underscores what happens when individuals turn to human rights law and other legal processes and proceedings to address injustices by the state. It does this through a critical multi-directional reading of two Uganda High Court appeal cases that overturned the decision of a lower court which at first instance had convicted Dr Stella Nyanzi of the offences of cyber harassment and offensive communications. Being right-with is a regulative and coercive idea within human rights law that animates a violent irrepressible police drive. I use being right-with to assert that when individuals make rights claims under human rights law (however radical those assertions might be), they are still imbricated within a mode of liberal humanist subjecthood that is always conceptually unfree. In trying to move away from this conceptual and dialectical trap of being made right-with and unfree under liberal humanism, this paper tentatively considers Black feminist theorisations of care and freedom ‘to-come’, as well as Édouard Glissant’s notion of opacity to explore the concept of being with elsewhere as a way of articulating practices of Black life that make freedom elsewhere possible
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No-Bodies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |