Globalizing the Indigenous: The Making of International Human Rights from Below

Globalizing the Indigenous: The Making of International Human Rights from Below

Description

In this chapter, I propose such an enlargement of the field of perception as a means to contribute to a more empirically accurate and strategically useful view of the human rights field. Rather than a homogeneous project, I understand the human rights field as an ecosystem for collaboration, contestation, synergies and competition among multiple political projects – from the expansion of neoliberal capitalism to anti-capitalist indigenous peoples ’ struggles, to the movement for accountability for crimes against humanity, to class-based mobilisation for social justice, to the youth movement for climate rights and many others. While they all use international human rights as one of their master frames, they do so in a selective and proactive way: they adopt, adapt, prioritise, contest, localise and globalise different pieces of the normative human rights umbrella, thus helping enforce and transform the master frame in equal measure.

First Page

75

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509972890.ch-004

Source Publication

The Complexity of Human Rights: From Vernacularization to Quantification

Source Editors/Authors

Philip Alston

Publication Date

2-26-2024

Publisher

Hart Publishing

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