The question concerning human rights and human rightlessness: disposability and struggle in the Bhopal gas disaster

被引:14
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作者
Odysseos, Louiza [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sussex, Dept Int Relat, Brighton, E Sussex, England
关键词
Bhopal gas disaster; disposability; human rights; struggle; rightlessness; SUBJECT;
D O I
10.1080/01436597.2015.1047183
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
In the midst of concerns about diminishing political support for human rights, individuals and groups across the globe continue to invoke them in their diverse struggles against oppression and injustice. Yet both those concerned with the future of human rights and those who champion rights activism as essential to resistance, assume that human rights - as law, discourse and practices of rights claiming - can ameliorate rightlessness. In questioning this assumption, this article seeks also to reconceptualise rightlessness by engaging with contemporary discussions of disposability and social abandonment in an attempt to be attentive to forms of rightlessness co-emergent with the operations of global capital. Developing a heuristic analytics of rightlessness, it evaluates the relatively recent attempts to mobilise human rights as a frame for analysis and action in the campaigns for justice following the 3 December 1984 gas leak from Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) pesticide manufacturing plant in Bhopal, India. Informed by the complex effects of human rights in the amelioration of rightlessness, the article calls for reconstituting human rights as an optics of rightlessness.
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页码:1041 / 1059
页数:19
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