Artikel
The making of humans and their others in and through Transnational Human Rights Advocacy : exploring the cases of Mukhtar Mai and Malala Yousafzai
Verfasst von:
Khoja-Moolji, Shenila S.
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Chicago:
2017
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377-402 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Khoja-Moolji, Shenila S. |
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| Jahr: | 2017 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article examines the making of humans and their others in and through transnational human rights advocacy. By exploring the discursive articulation of two global icons, Mukhtar Mai and Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan, I illustrate how the loud discourse of human rights constitutes particular bodies as human and others as subhuman, inhuman, and bestial through articulations of vulnerability and empowerment. Here, Muslim women and girls appear as vulnerable objects threatened by irrational and angry Muslim men. Visible violations of the corporeal body—delinked from geopolitics and economics—serve as a confirmation of suffering. And women’s empowerment is defined in narrow terms of subversion of local cultures, families, and communities through the practices of individualized voice and action. Such knowledge-making practices are problematic as they (re)install liberal norms and position the white, anglophone male as representing full humanity. Thus, there is a need to reevaluate the underlying terms that inform human rights advocacy. Excavating alternative—decolonial, posthumanist, subaltern, environmental, indigenous—conceptions of what it means to be human and to experience human empowerment is a difficult yet crucial project for human rights, feminist, and decolonial scholars and practitioners. To attempt such a move, I draw on my fieldwork with adolescent girls in Pakistan to center their understandings of being human that view bodies as relational and embedded in different systems of living, including nonhuman ones. This hints at possibilities for pluriversalizing the discourse of human rights in ways that acknowledge the multiplicity of what it means to be human across different knowledge systems, making way for varied experiences of empowerment and justice. | |
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