ABSTRACT
This chapter develops an analytical framework to highlight and support the emancipatory potential of human rights politics in the double context of globalization, on the one hand, and cultural fragmentation and identity politics, on the other. It aims to establish both global competence and local legitimacy for a progressive politics of human rights. The chapter develops a more cosmopolitan, multicultural conception of human rights on the basis of a diatopical hermeneutics aimed at bridging isomorphic concerns about human dignity in the Western, Islamic and Hindu cultures. The globalization of the Holly-wood star system may involve the ethnicization of the Hindu star system produced by the once strong Hindu film industry. There is a long-standing debate on the relationships between Islamism and human rights and the possibility of an Islamic conception of human rights. This debate covers a wide range of positions, and its impact reaches far beyond the Islamic world.
