Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights
Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights
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野蛮人、受害者和救世主：人权的隐喻
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2001
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M. Mutua
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M. Mutua
这篇文章以批判的眼光看待人权项目，认为它是一个揭露多重情结的可恶的三维隐喻。它认为，关于人权的宏大叙述包含着一种潜台词，它描绘了一场划时代的较量，一方是野蛮人，另一方是受害者和拯救者。野蛮人-受害者-拯救者（SVS）的构建暴露了人权项目的一些虚伪，并要求人权思想家和倡导者变得更加自我反思。这篇文章质疑人权项目的普遍性和文化中立性。它要求建立一个真正普遍的人权主体，一个多元文化、包容性和高度政治性的主体。
This article critically looks at the human rights project as a damning three-dimensional metaphor that exposes multiple complexes. It argues that the grand narrative of human rights contains a subtext which depicts an epochal contest pitting savages, on the one hand, against victims and saviors, on the other. The savages-victims-saviors (SVS) construction lays bare some of the hypocrisies of the human rights project and asks human rights thinkers and advocates to become more self-reflective. The piece questions the universality and cultural neutrality of the human rights project. It calls for the construction of a truly universal human rights corpus, one that is multicultural, inclusive, and deeply political.