'Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and
human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship
to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add
immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their
efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur' s trenchant critique of
rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of
freedom offer strikingly original arguments that make this an
indispensable volume for all who are interested in the future of
human rights.' - Tony Anghie, National University of Singapore and
University of Utah, US 'Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom
in a Fishbowl is located within the best of critical theory
traditions - thinking and rethinking orthodoxies around sexuality,
rights and freedoms. Kapur not only deploys a late Foucauldian
rethinking of freedom, but inherits the very spirit of intellectual
engagement - of ''shak(ing) up habitual ways of working and
thinking, dissipate(ing) conventional familiarities, to reevaluate
rules and institutions'' (Foucault). It is a compelling,
provocative read that will make its readers rethink what they think
they already know.' - Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto, Canada
'Ratna Kapur is one of the most important international legal
scholars working today. Gender, Alterity and Human Rights is
brilliant, provocative and ground breaking - I cannot think of any
other book published today that centers radically 'other'
approaches to political and ethical agency as the epistemological
anchor for analysis of international law. She advances this
ambitious new ground by showing how dominant approaches to human
rights and feminism are themselves invested in political
subjectivities and agendas that seek to redeem international law
and authorize global governance. With theoretical rigor and a
radical sensibility, she quarries through material as diverse as
human rights case law and Sufi poetry to excavate the plurality of
ways in which freedom is envisioned, challenged and inhabited.' -
Vasuki Nesiah, New York University, US Human rights are axiomatic
with liberal freedom. This book builds on the critique of this
mainstream and official position on human rights, drawing attention
to how human rights have been deployed to advance political and
cultural intents rather than bring about freedom for
disenfranchised groups. Its approach is unique insofar as it
focuses on queer, feminist and postcolonial human rights advocacy,
exposing how such interventions have at times advanced neo-liberal
agendas and new forms of imperialism, and enabled a carceral
politics rather than producing freedom for their constituencies.
Through a focus on campaigns for same-sex marriage, ending violence
against women, and the Islamic veil bans in liberal democracies,
human rights emerge as forms of governance that operate through
normative prescriptions, which bind even as they purport to free,
and establish a hierarchy of the human subject: who is human and
who is not; who qualifies for rights and who does not. This book
argues that the futurity of human rights rests in a transformative
engagement with non-liberal registers of freedom beyond the narrow
confines of the liberal fishbowl. This book will have a global
appeal for students and academics concerned with international and
human rights law, jurisprudence, critical legal theory, gender
studies, postcolonial studies, feminist legal theory, queer theory,
religious studies, and philosophy. It will appeal to political
activists and policymakers in the global justice arena concerned
with the freedom of disenfranchised groups, human rights, gender
justice, and the rights sexual and religious minorities.
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