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(Re)Doing rights

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The performativity of human rights to come

(Re)Doing rights

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(Re)Doing rights book

The performativity of human rights to come
ByKathryn McNeilly
BookHuman Rights and Radical Social Transformation

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
Imprint Routledge
Pages 21
eBook ISBN 9781315537108

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.

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