ABSTRACT
This chapter considers what it means to approach human rights as human rights to come by reflecting on how this idea advances the politico-legal activity of rights as a performative doing. Moving beyond understandings of human rights as objects and the practice of human rights as a legalistic activity, human rights to come draws attention to human rights as a fundamentally political, dynamic and generative activity, a doing in the performative sense. Human rights to come involves visibilising and foregrounding rights as a performative doing, but it also involves visibilising and foregrounding rights as a performative doing in futurity and as a performative redoing. Engaged in the context of a performative understanding of human rights and the radical possibilities such may offer, reiteration reveals how it may be possible to subtly alter the meaning of individual human rights concepts.
