Human Rights

Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl

By Ratna Kapur
Edward Elgar Publishing July 2018

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ISBN-13
9781788112529
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
July 2018
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. This book builds on the critique of this mainstream and official position on human rights, drawing attention to how human rights have been deployed to advance political and cultural intents rather than bring about freedom for disenfranchised groups.

Its approach is unique insofar as it focuses on queer, feminist and postcolonial human rights advocacy, exposing how such interventions have at times advanced neo-liberal agendas and new forms of imperialism, and a carceral politics rather than producing freedom for their constituencies.

Through a focus on campaigns for same sex marriage, ending violence against women, and the Islamic veil bans in liberal democracies, human rights emerge as forms of governance that operate through normative prescriptions, which bind even as they purport to free, and establish a hierarchy of the human subject: who is human and who is not; who qualifies for rights and who does not. The book argues that the futurity of human rights rests in engagement with non-liberal registers of freedom beyond the narrow confines of the liberal fishbowl.

This book will have a global appeal for students and academics concerned with international and human rights law, jurisprudence, critical legal theory, gender studies, postcolonial studies, feminist legal theory, queer theory, religious studies, and philosophy. It will appeal to political activists and policy-makers in the global justice arena concerned with the freedom of disenfranchised groups, human rights, gender justice, and the rights sexual and religious minorities.

Table of Contents

Prologue
Introduction
1. Liberal Freedom in a Fishbowl
2. Precarious Desires and the Pursuit of Rights
3. Freedom, Women's Rights and the Rise of the Sexual Security Regime
4. Gender Equality and the Unveiling of Alterity
5. Despair, Redemption and the Turn Away from Human Rights
6. Seeking Freedom through Alternative Registers
7. Freedom from the Fishbowl
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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