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Decolonial Thinking and the Quest for Decolonising Human Rights

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ID12834844
AuthorsJorgge Menna Barreto (0000-0002-4388-4788, Catholic University of Colombia, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume46
Issue4-5
Pages484-502
Publication date2018-09-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian journal of social science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1568-4849 • E-ISSN: 2212-3857
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1163/15685314-04604006
OpenAlexW2894453866
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited10

This article offers an answer to the questions about what does it mean to think decolonially, and of how it is possible to decolonise human rights. It describes decolonial thinking as a material dialectics of a critique of Eurocentrism, a rescue of Third-World perspectives, and a dialogue between the two. It then takes this threefold movement of consciousness and political action to the field of human rights, and thematises some exemplars of each of the three moments, and of models of the decolonisation of human rights, including that of re-writing their history

Action (physics · Asian studies · Consciousness · Decolonization · Dialectic · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Eurocentrism · Field (mathematics · Human rights · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Philosophy

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Unique citing works22
Citations per year3,67
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 21

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