Vernacular Rights Cultures

by Sumi Madhok

Book Overview

Vernacular Rights Cultures offers a bold challenge to the dominant epistemologies and political practices of global human rights. It argues that decolonising global human rights calls for a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically specific encounters with human rights, and of the forms of world-making that underpin the stakes and struggles for rights and human rights around the globe. Through combining ethnographic investigations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009423932
• ISBN13: 9781009423939
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"