Vernacular Rights Cultures

Sumi Madhok

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781108832625
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108968263
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Global Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Vernacular Rights Cultures offers a bold challenge to the dominant epistemologies and political practices of global human rights. It argues that decolonising global human rights calls for a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically specific encounters with human rights, and of the forms of world-making that underpin the stakes and struggles for rights and human rights around the globe. Through combining ethnographic investigations with political theory and philosophy, it goes beyond critiquing the Eurocentrism of global human rights, in order to document and examine the different political imaginaries, critical conceptual vocabularies, and gendered political struggles for rights and justice that animate subaltern mobilisations in 'most of the world'. Vernacular Rights Cultures demonstrates that these subaltern struggles call into being different and radical ideas of justice, politics and citizenship, and open up different possibilities and futures for human rights.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Vernacular Rights Cultures
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1. An Introduction: Vernacular Rights Cultures and Decolonising Human Rights
• 2. Refusing the Politics of Origins
• 3. Assembling a Feminist Historical Ontology of Haq
• 4.The Political Imaginaries of Haq: ‘Citizenship’ and ‘Truth’
• 5. Resisting Developmentalism and the Military: Haq as a Cosmological Idea and an Islamic Ideal
• 6. Conceptual Diversity, Feminist Historical Ontology and a Critical Reflexive Politics of Location
• References
• Index