Significance of Human Rights in Upendra Baxi's Work
Delve into the profound insights of Upendra Baxi's work "Southern Voices" to explore the evolving landscape of human rights, addressing the past, present, and future discourse on the subject. From critiquing contemporary human rights to analyzing the overproduction of rights, this exploration navigates the complexities of inclusion, suffering, and governance. Discover the dual notions of human rights, the impact of human suffering, and the challenges faced by the modern human rights movement in this enlightening journey.
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HUMAN RIGHTS. SUBSTANTIATING THE SIGNIFICANCE AND THE CURRENT STATE on the basis of Upendra Baxi s work Southern Voices
Human rights futures, dependent as they are upon imparting an authentic voice to human suffering, must engage in a discourse of suffering that moves the world.
5.2 VOICES OF SUFFERING AND THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
TWO NOTIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS The modern paradigm of rights the logics of exclusion are pre-eminent, enunciation of human rights was almost ascetic In the contemporary paradigm the logics of inclusion are paramount, enunciations present a virtual carnival. THE LOGICS OF EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION 1) the nature of human nature 2) who is to count as human or fully human? HUMAN RIGHTS LANGUAGES AND THE POWER OF GOVERNANCE The hegemonic function of rights languages consisted in making whole groups of people socially and politically invisible. In contrast, the contemporary human rights paradigm is based on the premise of radical self-determination ASCETIC VERSUS CARNIVALISTIC RIGHTS PRODUCTION The way collectivities extend also to wholly new, hitherto unthought-of, justice constituencies
HUMAN SUFFERING AND HUMAN CONTEMPORARY human rights movement is rooted in the illegitimacy of all forms of cruelty politics MODERN human rights cultures, tracing their pedigree to the Idea of Progress, Social Darwinism, racism, and patriarchy
CRITIQUES OF CONTEMPORARY HUMAN RIGHTS a) the modes of production of human rights; b)the problems posed by the politics of universality of human rights and the politics of identity/difference; c) the arguments from relativism and multiculturalism.
THE OVERPRODUCTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS Five principal approaches: 1) Way of reading concerns hierarchical control. human rights romanticism 2) The value and the utility of the rights- weariness inflation of human rights. 3) The standpoint of high moral theory 4) The production of human rights as human rights realism the best hope there is for inclusive participation in the making of human futures. 5) The very notion of the overproduction of human rights The implicit discourse on contemporary human rights norms and standards.
5.3 RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT
(a) DEVELOPMENT,TERROR AND THE POSTHUMAN WORLD How may we convert old habits of rethinkingdevelopment to some new ways of thought? 1) We need to explore new forms of the post-Cold War. 2) The discourse of the emergent posthuman condition deserves anxious attention because it so fully both dissipates as well as reconstitutes the human self as a bearer of rights. Media culture, as the engine of a serious philosophical enterprise, as a result of developments in the field of artificial intelligence of bio-, nano -, and technologies. and the Star Wars genre of military technologies Will Smith tries flirting with humanoid robot Sophia https://www.bio.org/what-biotechnology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml9v3wHLuWI
(c) Time and development: The Millennium Development Goals The generative grammars, as it were, of human rights dissipate human and social suffering, at times to a point of social illegibility. The time dimension: How may the sacrificial time of development be legitimately constructed by the classes of developers? Moving a bit further, the question is: how may we address the intransigently difficult distinction between time-as-a measure and time as a collectivesubstance ?
