محل برگزاری: منچستر
تاریخ اعـتـبار: ۰۹-۰۳-۱۳۹۴
Workshop: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights
Workshop convenor: Dr Birgit Schippers (St Mary’s University College Belfast)
Recent work in political theory, in critical legal theory, and in history has challenged human rights’ purported regulatory, disciplinary and exclusionary effects; further, it has highlighted the anthroprocentric assumptions underpinning rights discourse, and it has questioned the alleged privileging of juridical procedures, criticising human rights’ predilection for ‘jurocratic rule’ (Honig) at the expense of democratic practices. In response to these challenges, critical human rights scholarship draws on agonistic, aporetic and performative readings of human rights, and it seeks to excavate those discursive conditions that constitute the human as a bearer of rights. بیشتر بخوانید