In the break (of rights and representation)
Sociality Beyond the Non/Human Subject
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8102093 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie-Catherine Petersmann (0000-0001-5665-0211, corresponding author), Marie Petersmann (Tilburg University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 8-9 |
| Pages | 1279-1303 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Human Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-2987 • E-ISSN: 1744-053X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13642987.2023.2227124 |
| OpenAlex | W4384034144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Nonhuman interests are today routinely articulated in a register of ‘rights’. ‘Rights of nature’ and ‘animal rights’ have expanded the vernacular of liberal rights beyond the human subject, thereby arguably entering the realm of ‘post-human rights’. For such rights to be enforced, however, they must be recognised within a legal order and mediated by human subjects speaking on behalf of nonhuman ‘right-holders’. This article focuses on the modes of representation and subjectification of nonhumans – whether natural entities, animals, or ecosystems – that underpin this reconfiguration. While granting rights to nonhumans de-centres the human figure at the heart of liberal legal orders, it remains focused on the category of the subject. Taking on the questions of the symposium on ‘After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics’, I argue that granting rights to nonhumans might well enable a move beyond or ‘after human rights’, but not ‘after human rights’. To think the possibility of an ‘after rights’, I turn to practices of sociality as articulated in works of critical Black studies that refuse the category of the subject as such. What emerges are modes of living in escape from violent subjections to racialised, colonial, and liberal inscriptions of worlding through ‘rights’, whether humans or nonhumans
Animal rights · Environmental ethics · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Realm · Right to property · Rights of Nature · Sociality · Sociology · Subject (documents · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Race, History, and American Society · Ecology · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |