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Human Rights Education and the Politics of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Human Rights Education and the Politics of Knowledge (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
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Around the world there are a myriad of NGOs using human rights
education (HRE) as a tool of community empowerment with the firm
belief that it will help people improve their lives. One way of
understanding these processes is that they translate universal
human rights speak using messages and symbols which make them
relevant to people's daily lives and culturally resonant. However,
an alternative more radical perspective is that these processes
should engage individuals in modes of critical inquiry into the
ways that that existing power structures maintain the status quo
and control not only how we understand and speak about social
inequality and injustice, but also act on it. This book is a
critical inquiry into the production, distribution and consumption
of HRE and how the discourse is constructed historically, socially
and politically through global institutions and local NGO practice.
The book begins with the premise that HRE is composed of theories
of human rights and education, both of which are complex and
multifaceted. However, the book demonstrates how over time a
dominant discourse of HRE, constructed by the United Nations
institutional framework, has come to prominence and the ways it is
reproduced and reinforced through the practice of intermediary NGOs
engaged in HRE activities with community groups. Drawing on
socio-legal scholarship it offers a new theoretical and political
framework for addressing how human rights, pedagogy, knowledge and
power can be analysed between the global and local by connecting
the critical, but well-trodden, theories of human rights to
insights on critical pedagogy. It uses critical discourse analysis
and ethnographic research to investigate the practice of NGOs
engaged in HRE using contextual evidence and findings from
fieldwork with NGOs and communities in Tanzania.
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