
Publication details
Publisher: sdvig press
Year: 2014
Pages: 117-133
Series: Metodo
Full citation:
, "The revolutionary past", Metodo 2 (1), 2014, pp. 117-133.


The revolutionary past
Decolonizing law and human rights
pp. 117-133
in: Pierfrancesco Biasetti, Ferdinando G. Menga (eds), Human rights in a plural ethical framework, Metodo 2 (1), 2014.Abstract
Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives derived from decolonial thought, this paper advances a deconstruction of occidental law. That deconstruction is then brought to bear on human rights. Although occidental law and human rights are shown in this way to be imperial in orientation, that same deconstruction reveals resistant elements in law and in human rights. These are elements which the decolonial can draw on in its commitment to intercultural transformation.
Publication details
Publisher: sdvig press
Year: 2014
Pages: 117-133
Series: Metodo
Full citation:
, "The revolutionary past", Metodo 2 (1), 2014, pp. 117-133.