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The non-perplexity of human rights
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Nayar, Jayan (2019) The non-perplexity of human rights. Theory and Event, 22 (2). pp. 267-302. ISSN 1092-311X.
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Official URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/722825
Abstract
What do we (think we) speak about when we speak of Human Rights? Mostly we think that we speak of the fate of the vulnerable Human-being in her beingness in the world. Given this assumption, three recurring perplexities- of territoriality, parochiality-imperiality and coloniality – appear to preoccupy much critical thinking on the subject. I suggest a different reason underpins the invention and operation of Human Rights. I argue that Human Rights, as a (post)colonial technology of subjectification, operates in perverse coherence, to rationalize and regulate the global (b)ordering of differentiated subject-beingness: of license, containment and abandonment. As such efforts that aim to rescue Human Rights for the human-subject merely reinforce the adaptive operations of global governmentality to norm-alise and resettle the World. Against this I suggest a return to an anti-colonial philosophical orientation of desubjectification.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration K Law [Moys] > KC International Law |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Human rights, Postcolonialism | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Theory and Event | ||||||
Publisher: | John Hopkins University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1092-311X | ||||||
Official Date: | April 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 22 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 267-302 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | The Author | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 January 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 January 2019 | ||||||
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