Sumi Madhok (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Vernacular Rights Cultures

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book proposes that decolonising human rights requires historically and politically specific conceptual, empirical and theoretical investigations of rights politics. It tracks contemporary subaltern movements across India and Pakistan to show how and why marginalised groups deploy the language of rights to demand justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781009423939
• ISBN-10: 1009423932
• Artikelnr.: 70178837

Autorenporträt

Sumi Madhok is Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Rethinking Agency: Gender, Developmentalism and Rights (2013), co-editor of Gender, Agency and Coercion (2013) and The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. An Introduction: Vernacular Rights Cultures in South Asia and Decolonizing Human Rights
2. Human Rights, Political Agency, and Refusing the Politics of Origins
3. Assembling a Feminist Historical Ontology of Haq in South Asia
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: A Conclusion
Bibliography
Glossary
Index.