Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial Lens
This article problematizes the Human Rights conceptualization embodied in the International Human Rights Law corpus. It considers human rights as a Western construct rooted in a particular historical context, located in a specific ideological background and grounded in a concrete socio-cognitive sy...
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This article problematizes the Human Rights conceptualization embodied in the International Human Rights Law corpus. It considers human rights as a Western construct rooted in a particular historical context, located in a specific ideological background and grounded in a concrete socio-cognitive system. Thus, in disregard of features of non-dominant cultures, the mainstream human rights grammar became a discourse of empire. Building on TWAIL and decolonial theory, this article challenges that hegemonic human rights discourse while providing a justification for incorporating other conceptualizations of rights through an inter-epistemic conversation with alternative world-views.
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| spelling | doaj.art-06c44136a3524493823fefa9b17f24ed2022-12-22T03:17:51ZengUniversidad de JaénAge of Human Rights Journal2340-95922020-12-011510.17561/tahrj.v15.5818Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial LensDavinia Gómez Sánchez0Universidad de Deusto This article problematizes the Human Rights conceptualization embodied in the International Human Rights Law corpus. It considers human rights as a Western construct rooted in a particular historical context, located in a specific ideological background and grounded in a concrete socio-cognitive system. Thus, in disregard of features of non-dominant cultures, the mainstream human rights grammar became a discourse of empire. Building on TWAIL and decolonial theory, this article challenges that hegemonic human rights discourse while providing a justification for incorporating other conceptualizations of rights through an inter-epistemic conversation with alternative world-views. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHRJ/article/view/5818human rightseurocentrismdecolonialityalternative epistemologiesIngigenous peoplesdevelopment |
| spellingShingle | Davinia Gómez Sánchez Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial Lens Age of Human Rights Journal human rights eurocentrism decoloniality alternative epistemologies Ingigenous peoples development |
| title | Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial Lens |
| title_full | Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial Lens |
| title_fullStr | Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial Lens |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial Lens |
| title_short | Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial Lens |
| title_sort | transforming human rights through decolonial lens |
| topic | human rights eurocentrism decoloniality alternative epistemologies Ingigenous peoples development |
| url | https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHRJ/article/view/5818 |
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