Dalit Literary Narratives

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nalini Pai
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
English Language ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Right ◽  
Literary Narrative

Literature about Dalits and by Dalits is a huge body of writing today. Autobiographical accounts as well as testimonies by Dalit writers from all over India have already been looked at as genres that locate personal as well as the suffering of a mass of people within the larger discourse of human rights. The present paper attempts to examine literary narratives by Dalits and place them as evidence of atrocities committed against them. The paper will also look closely at Dalit stories as typifying the Dalit lived experience. The stories also throw light on the rich and varied culture of these subaltern castes. It is worth noting that there seems to be a hierarchy even among the various kinds of Dalits. The literature analysed will cover stories that show the range of experiences and the cultural identity of the Dalits. The Dalit literary narrative will be looked at as a document that records the suffering of the marginalised and, therefore, as something that is different from a sociological study of the Dalits as an oppressed class. Themes like the right to property and the right to be treated with respect will be looked at. Issues like the Dalit woman as being a victim of double marginalisation will also be part of the focus of this paper.Keywords Dalit literary writing language woman marginalisation rights experienceCulture is one of the most complicated words in the English language. It is a word which, like others, has undergone a variety.

Carnal Exhibitions: Material Religion and the European Court of Human Rights

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Méadhbh McIvor
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Article 9 ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Right ◽  
Material Religion ◽  
Religious Objects

This article presents an anthropological account of the European Court of Human Rights' approach to material religion. Focusing on a range of cases involving an alleged violation of Article 9 – the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion – in relation to such diverse religious objects as cassette players, incense, crucifixes, photographs and cross necklaces, it draws on ethnographic studies of material culture to suggest a disconnect between the Court's emphasis on religion as belief and the lived experience of embodied, sensual and object-oriented religious practice. It concludes that Article 9's privileging of theforum internumover material practice has contributed to an immaterial view of religion and religious life. Such an understanding ultimately fails to appreciate the importance of objects in the creation, expression and maintenance of religious worlds.

General comment No. 5 (2021) on Migrants’ Rights to Liberty, Freedom from Arbitrary Detention and their Connection with other Human Rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-342
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Global Compact ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Inherent Dignity ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Migrants Rights ◽  
The Right

Abstract Article 16 of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families protects the right of migrant workers and members of their families to liberty and security of person. Under Article 17, those deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person and for their cultural identity. The Committee on Migrant Workers’ General Comment No. 5 (2021) provides authoritative interpretation of articles 16 and 17 and other articles of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in the context of the rising trend towards criminalization of migration and increasingly frequent use of detention of migrants. General Comment No. 5 (2021) intends to provide guidance to States on fulfilling their obligations under the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in relation to the right to liberty and protection against arbitrary detention, and other intersecting human rights obligations and other human rights obligations arising from the intersection of those rights with other human rights. The General Comment is also aimed at providing guidance to States on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and to other stakeholders on implementing initiatives to promote and protect human rights and to monitor compliance thereof.

Protecting Human Rights amidst Poverty and Inequality: The South African Post-apartheid Experience on the Right of Access to Housing

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Mubangizi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
South African ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
South African Society ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Persistent Poverty ◽  
The Right ◽  
Daunting Challenge ◽  
Right Of Access

AbstractA significant gain of the new political and constitutional dispensation ushered in South Africa in 1994 was a commitment to the protection of human rights. However, protecting human rights in a country where the gap between the rich and the poor is among the largest in the world was always going to be a daunting challenge. The challenge is even more daunting with the protection of socio-economic rights such as the right of access to adequate housing. This article explores the challenges that South Africa faces in protecting human rights in the face of persistent poverty of over half of the country's population, vast economic disparities and gross inequality. Focusing on the right of access to adequate housing, the author explores some prospects arising from the roles played by the constitution; domestic courts; other state institutions as well as non-state actors. The article concludes that although the challenges are real, the prospects are promising. However, a lot must be done if the democratic miracle that has characterized South African society over the last fifteen years is to be maintained.

Challenging Racist Nativist Framing: Acknowledging the Community Cultural Wealth of Undocumented Chicana College Students to Reframe the Immigration Debate

2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Pérez Huber
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Research University ◽  
Community Cultural Wealth ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Immigration Debate ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Right

Using the critical race testimonios of ten Chicana undergraduate students at a toptier research university, Lindsay Pérez Huber interrogates and challenges the racist nativist framing of undocumented Latina/o immigrants as problematic, burdensome,and "illegal." Specifically, a community cultural wealth framework (Yosso,2005) is utilized and expanded to highlight the rich forms of capital existing within the families and communities of these young women that have allowed them to survive,resist, and navigate higher education while simultaneously challenging racist nativist discourses. Reflecting on her data and analysis, Pérez Huber ends with a call for a human rights framework that demands the right of all students—and particularly Latinas/os—to live full and free lives.

scholarly journals Purposes and Challenges of Integrating ICT in English Language Teaching in Nepalese Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-206
Author(s):  
Prakash Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
English Language ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Language Class ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
The Right

This phenomenological study explores how English language teachers become information and communication technology (ICT) literate and why they make use of ICT in English language class and find out challenges in integrating ICT in English language teaching (ELT). For this purpose, two secondary-level English teachers were selected purposively, and in-depth interviews were conducted to collect data. The collected data were analyzed using the thematic analysis technique. The findings drawn from the lived experience of the teachers reveal that teachers become ICT literate and updated by taking formal classes, training, and teaching their students; they make use of ICT in ELT for students' language development, motivation, and autonomy. The challenge of keeping the students on the right track is the major challenge English language teachers encounter while integrating ICT in ELT. Though there are challenges, every English language teacher should try to teach the English language integrating ICT.

scholarly journals Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Tomlin ◽  
Melanie Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Models Of Care ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
The Right ◽  
Late Modern

AbstractForensic mental health care is situated across both criminal justice and healthcare systems and is subject to political, cultural, legal and economic shifts in these contexts. The implementation of strength- and recovery-based models of care should be understood in light of these social and structural processes. Drawing on novel empirical fieldwork and the extant literature, we argue that full realisation of strength- and recovery-based principles is at odds with aspects of late modern social control. Not wholly compatible, we highlight how concepts of empowerment, autonomy, identity and connectedness can unhelpfully rub-up against the concepts of punitiveness, otherness and risk management. Conceptually this is problematic, but in frontline forensic psychiatry settings, this has real lived-experience detrimental effects for patients – as our data demonstrate. To address this, a human rights approach might be fruitful. Grounding arguments for strength- and recovery-based principles in the heuristic framework of human rights can offer a set of common values to stimulate reform in forensic mental healthcare. The right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms offers a particularly promising, robust and well-defined framework for these future changes – as we outline.

scholarly journals Universality and Modern Individuality Civilization Paradigm in The Field of Human Rights: Dialogue vs Conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Svitlana Karvatska ◽  
Lyubov Zamorska ◽  
Olga Chepel ◽  
Tetyana Gnatuyk ◽  
Iryna Prodan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
World Order ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
The Right

The article gives reason to say, that the key point of globalization in the field of human rights is the universalization of this area. The universalization of human rights is a key trend, but not the only, in their development. Human rights as universal moral principles specification are the rules on which peaceful coexistence of individuals and different cultures in terms of global problems is possible. Such an approach allows to solve the seemingly irreconcilable contradiction between the positions of the universalism of human rights and cultural identity pluralism: the right to cultural identity is a significant individual right. There should be a critical approach to the thesis of the insurmountable fundamentality of cultural differences between Eastern and Western cultures. It is necessary to distinguish between situations of imposing Western standards on other cultures and the real importance and universality of human rights for the modern world. Cultural diversity should never be used as an excuse for chauvinistic nationalism. It is intercultural dialogues that should facilitate fruitful exchanges of ideas on human rights issues in the perspective of cultural diversity and become the basis for the formation of a dialogical civilization. Contemporary human rights discourse has to take place in the context of a global world order emergence through the juxtaposition of concepts such as universality, cultural diversity and cultural dialogue.

scholarly journals Storytelling to Teach Cultural Awareness: The Right Story at the Right Time

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary McCullum Baldasaro ◽  
Nancy Maldonado ◽  
Beate Baltes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Building Community ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Right

Stories contain the wisdom of the world, teaching cultural values, building community, celebrating cultural diversity, and preserving cultural identity. Where truth is suppressed, story is an instrument of epiphany and develops metaphorical understanding. A storytelling guild in Canada had been a cultural institution for 23 years, so when the center faced permanent closure, members were devastated. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate the moment of this lived experience using interviews and focus groups. Findings indicated story strengthens content retention and language acquisition. These findings led to the development of a project focused on story-centered lessons for teachers.

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