“We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.”
John Pilger

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

A New Article: Constellations of Human Rights

Sylvanna Martina Falcón     
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA    

CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY
JAN. 2015

Sylvanna M Falcón, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. Email: smfalcon (at) ucsc.edu

ABSTRACT:
This article explores the production of human rights discourse by examining the organization and social actors involved in its construction. The author proposes a triad constellation configuration for situating the varied engagements of human rights by different constituencies at the United Nations level: dominant understandings, counterpublic approaches, and social praxis. Dominant understandings are affiliated with the Western-legal apparatus, counterpublic approaches embrace antiracist and feminist epistemologies, and social praxis is about the mediation between the first two constellations. This article argues that the social praxis constellation is where the discourse of human rights can be inventive and dynamic because an envisioning of human rights moves beyond the rubric of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights.

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