Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial Lens

Transforming Human Rights through Decolonial Lens

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This Hooks article problematizes the Human Rights conceptualization embodied in the International Human Rights Law corpus.It considers human rights as a Western construct rooted in a particular historical context, located in a specific ideological background and grounded in a concrete socio-cognitive system.Thus, in disregard of features of non-dominant cultures, the mainstream human Top rights grammar became a discourse of empire.

Building on TWAIL and decolonial theory, this article challenges that hegemonic human rights discourse while providing a justification for incorporating other conceptualizations of rights through an inter-epistemic conversation with alternative world-views.