What’s wrong with rights? Social movements, law and liberal imagination
What’s wrong with rights? Social movements, law and liberal imagination
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社会运动、法律和自由主义想象力出了什么问题?
DOI:
10.1080/14742837.2019.1697666
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
E. Coburn
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作者:
E. Coburn
This book, a thorough-going challenge to the hegemony of liberal rights discourse, from a Marxist perspective, opens with the following question: if Indigenous peoples have relationships with places from time immemorial, and if these relationships are the ontological, political, spiritual and moral grounds for their ongoing presence on specific lands, why do some Indigenous actors seek to make claims to their own lands at world bodies like the United Nations, in places like Geneva, Switzerland?(p. 6) And why do they do so in the contemporary language of human rights?D’Souza’s answer is that Indigenous peoples have been captured by beguiling but fundamentally misleading aspirations implicit in human rights discourses. Seduced by the liberal promise of rights, especially their ‘capacity to generate... new hopes and a feeling of agency’(p. 19), Indigenous actors make legal and social appeals to organisms like the United Nations,