scholarly journals The Form and Content of Human Rights Film: Teaching Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower

2016 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 38-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hamblin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
And Function ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
Rights Issue

This essay argues that the consistent association of human rights film with historical accuracy as a means of raising awareness has led human rights education to focus on filmic content, with fiction films being used primarily as case studies about particular atrocities or as opportunities to discuss more general ethical issues. While the subject matter of human rights films is certainly a major component of human rights education, I maintain that this singular focus prohibits students from examining how a film is situated within a specific matrix of geopolitical power relations and cultural presuppositions. This presumption of truth thus normalizes a westernized worldview, obscuring its ideological foundations and the geopolitical structures that give human rights discourse its universality and function. Using Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower as a teaching case study, this essay demonstrates how an attention to stylistic and generic conventions helps us understand how a film may educate about a particular human rights issue while at the same time propagate the very logics of geopolitical inequality that are implicated in its emergence.

Between the Global and the Local: Human Rights Discourse and Engagement in Two New York City High Schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. GARNETT RUSSELL
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
High Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Rights Issues

While there has been a rise in human rights education at the global level, little attention has been paid to how it is integrated into schools in the United States. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data collected in two diverse high schools across an academic year, S. Garnett Russell investigates the extent to which human rights education influences students' knowledge and attitudes about human rights and how students engage with and translate global human rights into the local context. Although the majority of students in the study showed a superficial understanding or sense of distance around global human rights issues, Russell finds that students were better able to “vernacularize” universal notions of rights into their own local context, particularly around issues linked to police brutality and racial discrimination. Findings from the study point to the importance of human rights education, particularly for marginalized students.

scholarly journals Shades of Universality: Variation of Performances in the Glocalized Israeli Human Rights Discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 073112142095076
Author(s):  
Ben Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Local Diversity ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
Cross National

Discursive variations of human rights are typically examined in a cross-national comparison, while usually referring to local arenas as homogeneous particularistic spaces confronting glocal uniform performances of human rights. Using a comparative analysis of six paradigmatic altruistic Israeli nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and critically reviewing globalization and human rights literature, this study challenges the cross-national-oriented studies and the common analysis of human rights in local settings as a monolithic phenomenon. By mapping the Israeli organizational field of human rights, the study reveals substantial variations in terms of glocal identity, which allow the creation of an analytical framework for contextualizing local diversity. This diversity, as this paper shows, includes distinct models of human rights activities, which were mostly absent or dismissed as inauthentic in research thus far. The paper discusses the importance of future awareness of intranational variations, and the potential contribution this may have to the sociological understanding of current human rights institutions. Finally, the paper concludes by raising awareness to liberal normative assumptions in research, which may lead to the exclusion of alternative social phenomena from inquiry, especially in the case of moral discourses.

scholarly journals An alternative conceptualization of indigenous rights in Africa under the international human rights law framework

2018 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Ruwadzano P. Makumbe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Alternative Conceptualization ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Indigenous Rights Movement ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

<p>This article is a practice-based elucidation of how indigenous rights can be securely protected and implemented in the broader human rights discourse. The concept of indigeneity is contested in many African countries with the primary question being: Who is indigenous? The ‘politics of recognition’ have stalled the work of the African indigenous rights movement thus far and this paper builds upon the discourse on Indigenous rights, making a proposition towards an effective machinery to facilitate their protection. Therefore, the focus is to construct a different perspective which emphasizes the need to utilize, develop and improve the existent human rights machinery. This is done through the reconceptualization of indigenous rights by utilizing the ethno-cultural protections machinery. In the last part of this article I look at the San peoples in Zimbabwe as a representative case study to bring into perspective the lived realities of indigenous peoples in Africa.</p><p><strong>Received</strong>: 28 June 2018<br /><strong>Accepted</strong>: 23 October 2018<br /><strong>Published online</strong>: 11 December 2018</p>

7. Contemporary Critiques of Human Rights

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Kosovo War ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines contemporary critiques of human rights, focusing on the downside of human rights claims — what is commonly understood by advocates of human rights to be the ‘misuse’ or ‘abuse’ of human rights. It first considers how human rights claims conflate ethical and legal claims because the subject of rights is not a socially constituted legal subject. It then discusses the rise of human rights as well as the relationship between human rights claims and international interventions such as humanitarianism, international law, and military intervention. In particular, it analyses the ethical, legal, and political questions raised by the Kosovo war. The chapter shows that there is a paradox at the heart of the human rights discourse, which enables claims made on behalf of victims, the marginalized, and excluded to become a mechanism for the creation of new frameworks for the exercise of power.

The Bible and Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Carole R. Fontaine
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

This essay explores the socially restrictive traditions that cause scriptural groups to reject the idea of universal rights and equal access to economic, social and cultural rights. This hermeneutical situation is difficult to tolerate, as our multicultural planet is seeking survival. Ethical issues and the principles of a culture’s morality are often partly religious in nature. The UNDUHR recognizes the right to believe and to promote one’s own beliefs, and it considers these particular rights as being part of a cultural “right to affiliate.” Nevertheless, international human rights law has not successfully promoted full human rights in countries of “Religions of the Book.” The essay thus suggests that appeals to the Bible grounded in human rights must be woven into contextual exegetical work, human rights discourse, and feminist critique. Even so, for women, foreigners, and “Others,” the Bible will remain a serious obstacle for enjoying full economic, social, and cultural rights.

Engaged Surrender in the Void: Post-Secularist “Human” Rights Discourse and Muslim Feminists [sic]

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-151
Author(s):  
Emily Albrink Hartigan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Choice ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

“Human” rights discourse is inherently multicultural, and multicultural discourse is messy. The academese for that goes something like this: I am an “agnostic and ambivalent subject of a double, decentered multicultural choice” (see the following quotations) and my text comes from a minority stance in a “different context.”“[A]ffirmative multi-culturalism” can bring no such closure and composure to the subject of cultural choice. Its subjectivity is performatively constituted in the very tension that makes knowledge of cultural difference dense, conglomerative, and nondeliberative. What emerges is an agonistic and ambivalent subject of a double, decentered multicultural choice. (emphasis added)—Homi K. Bhabha

scholarly journals Globalisasi dan Hak Asasi Manusia: Tinjauan Kritis Terhadap Wacana Global Governance dalam Upaya Perlindungan Pekerja Migran Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-68
Author(s):  
Rengga Dina Permana
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
The Political ◽  
Wide Definition ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
Rights Issue

Discourse of Global Governance came along with globalization. This article will not showing reader about the debates among scholars regarding the wide definition of globalization, rather this article is a production of critical consciousness. Using Foucault’s governmentality in order to dismantle the technology of power this article explains how then globalization with the issues that came along with its discourse.In this case I raise human rights issue that becoming the political rationalization of protecting of migrant worker must be started from human rights discourse and take it as the regime of truth.

Housing as a Basic Human Right: A Reflection on South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mziwandile Sobantu ◽  
Nqobile Zulu ◽  
Ntandoyenkosi Maphosa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

This paper reflects on human rights in the post-apartheid South Africa housing context from a social development lens. The Constitution guarantees access to adequate housing as a basic human right, a prerequisite for the optimum development of individuals, families and communities. Without the other related socio-economic rights, the provision of access to housing is limited in its service delivery. We argue that housing rights are inseparable from the broader human rights discourse and social development endeavours underway in the country. While government has made much progress through the Reconstruction and Development Programme, the reality of informal settlements and backyard shacks continues to undermine the human rights prospects of the urban poor. Forced evictions undermine some poor citizens’ human rights leading courts to play an active role in enforcing housing and human rights through establishing a jurisprudence that invariably advances a social development agenda. The authors argue that the post-1994 government needs to galvanise the citizenship of the urban poor through development-oriented housing delivery.

The Internationalization Of Human Rights And The Importance Of Normative Dialogues Between International And National Courts

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Mariane Morato Stival ◽  
Marcos André Ribeiro ◽  
Daniel Gonçalves Mendes da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
National Courts ◽  
European Court ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

This article intends to analyze in the context of the complexity of the process of internationalization of human rights, the definitions and tensions between cultural universalism and relativism, the essence of human rights discourse, its basic norms and an analysis of the normative dialogues in case decisions involving violations of human rights in international tribunals such as the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and national courts. The well-established dialogue between courts can bring convergences closer together and remove differences of opinion on human rights protection. A new dynamic can occur through a complementarity of one court with respect to the other, even with the different characteristics between the legal orders.

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