Vernacular Rights Cultures

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-42393-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

Vernacular Rights Cultures offers a bold challenge to the dominant epistemologies and political practices of global human rights. It argues that decolonising global human rights calls for a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically specific encounters with human rights, and of the forms of world-making that underpin the stakes and struggles for rights and human rights around the globe. Through combining ethnographic investigations with political theory and philosophy, it goes beyond critiquing the Eurocentrism of global human rights, in order to document and examine the different political imaginaries, critical conceptual vocabularies, and gendered political struggles for rights and justice that animate subaltern mobilisations in 'most of the world'. Vernacular Rights Cultures demonstrates that these subaltern struggles call into being different and radical ideas of justice, politics and citizenship, and open up different possibilities and futures for human rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Madhok, Sumi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; 1. An Introduction: Vernacular Rights Cultures in South Asia and Decolonizing Human Rights; 2. Human Rights, Political Agency, and Refusing the Politics of Origins; 3. Assembling a Feminist Historical Ontology of Haq in South Asia; 4. The Political Imaginaries of Haq: 'Citizenship' and 'Truth'; 5. Resisting Developmentalism and the Military: Haq as a Cosmological Idea and an Islamic Ideal; 6. Conceptual Diversity, Feminist Historical Ontology and a Critical Reflexive Politics of Location: A Conclusion; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Madhok, Sumi
Sumi Madhok is Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Rethinking Agency: Gender, Developmentalism and Rights (2013), co-editor of Gender, Agency and Coercion (2013) and The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory (2014).