Human rights for more than one voice: rethinking political space beyond the global/local divide
This paper considers political agency and space as found in Cavarero's For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression in order to take a critical philosophical approach to human rights education (HRE) and the political implications of its increasingly legal discourse. Like Are...
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| description | This paper considers political agency and space as found in Cavarero's For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression in order to take a critical philosophical approach to human rights education (HRE) and the political implications of its increasingly legal discourse. Like Arendt, Cavarero is concerned with a radical rethinking of political space, as not limited to place or legal borders, but bound by our human condition of plurality and relationality. Both Arendt and Cavarero want politics to be coupled with justice, nevertheless, Cavarero provides a notion of politics that lets us think beyond territorial terms of a polis, which opens for exploring an expanded conceptualization of human rights politics, as not bound by national legislative measures, but as concerning political action in-between human beings. In contrast to the dominant discourse on ‘human rights experts’ who frame the content for HRE, the notion of ‘absolute local space’ questions the dichotomy of universal/particular in raising the importance of a plurality of unique voices who create a spectrum for the universality of rights. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7ffea0463dee4141943d2059df3d032c2022-12-21T23:00:27ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEthics & Global Politics1654-63692014-12-017016318010.3402/egp.v7.2445424454Human rights for more than one voice: rethinking political space beyond the global/local divideRebecca Adami0Fulbright Scholar, Columbia University, New York, NY, USAThis paper considers political agency and space as found in Cavarero's For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression in order to take a critical philosophical approach to human rights education (HRE) and the political implications of its increasingly legal discourse. Like Arendt, Cavarero is concerned with a radical rethinking of political space, as not limited to place or legal borders, but bound by our human condition of plurality and relationality. Both Arendt and Cavarero want politics to be coupled with justice, nevertheless, Cavarero provides a notion of politics that lets us think beyond territorial terms of a polis, which opens for exploring an expanded conceptualization of human rights politics, as not bound by national legislative measures, but as concerning political action in-between human beings. In contrast to the dominant discourse on ‘human rights experts’ who frame the content for HRE, the notion of ‘absolute local space’ questions the dichotomy of universal/particular in raising the importance of a plurality of unique voices who create a spectrum for the universality of rights.http://www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/download/24454/37575Adriana CavareroHannah Arendtagonisticcritical philosophyhuman rights education |
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| title | Human rights for more than one voice: rethinking political space beyond the global/local divide |
| title_full | Human rights for more than one voice: rethinking political space beyond the global/local divide |
| title_fullStr | Human rights for more than one voice: rethinking political space beyond the global/local divide |
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| title_short | Human rights for more than one voice: rethinking political space beyond the global/local divide |
| title_sort | human rights for more than one voice rethinking political space beyond the global local divide |
| topic | Adriana Cavarero Hannah Arendt agonistic critical philosophy human rights education |
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