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Making Rights Claims - A Practice of Democratic Citizenship (Hardcover)
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Making Rights Claims - A Practice of Democratic Citizenship (Hardcover)
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While the 1960s marked a rights revolution in the United States,
the subsequent decades have witnessed a rights revolution around
the globe, a revolution that for many is a sign of the advancement
of democracy. But is the act of rights claiming a form of political
contestation that advances democracy? Rights language is ubiquitous
in national and international politics today, yet nagging
suspicions remain about the compatibility between the practice of
rights claiming and democratic politics. While critics argue that
rights reinforce ways of thinking and being that undermine
democratic values and participatory practices, even champions worry
that rights lack the legitimacy and universality necessary to bring
democratic aspirations to fruition.
Making Rights Claims provides a unique entree into these important
and timely debates. Rather than simply taking a side for or against
rights claiming, the book argues that understanding and assessing
the relationship between rights and democracy requires a new
approach to the study of rights. Zivi combines insights from speech
act theory with recent developments in democratic and feminist
thought to develop a theory of the performativity of rights
claiming. If we understand rights claims as performative utterances
and acts of persuasion, we come to see that by saying "I have a
right," we constitute and reconstitute ourselves as democratic
citizens, shape our communities, and transform constraining
categories of identity in ways that may simultaneously advance and
challenge aspects of democracy. Furthermore, we begin to understand
that rights claiming is not a wholly rule bound practice. To
illustrate her theory, Zivi discusses different sides of two recent
rights debates: mandatory HIV testing of pregnant women and the new
immigration laws."
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