{"product_id":"vernacular-rights-cultures-hardback-9781108832625","title":"Vernacular Rights Cultures (Hardback) 9781108832625","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVernacular Rights Cultures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTracks the critical conceptual vocabularies and the gendered subaltern politics of rights and human rights in South Asia.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSumi Madhok (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108832625, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 February 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.1 x 2 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'How do you decolonize human rights? You begin by paying attention to how people pursue rights in most of the world. Seemingly obvious, what this book does is urge us not to see subaltern rights struggles as merely talking back to the centre. If we examine the deployment of rights by tenant farmers in Pakistan, Indigenous peoples in India, desert dwellers in Rajasthan, we can find those moments when an epistemic shift takes place and suddenly we see peeping through the human rights frames we know so well an alternate universe where food security is possible, forests are preserved, and people demand not equality but a future. Through her deeply attentive scholarship Madhok offers us the best gift of all: critique with the possibility of transformation.' Sherene H. Razack, author of Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eVernacular Rights Cultures offers a bold challenge to the dominant epistemologies and political practices of global human rights. It argues that decolonising global human rights calls for a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically specific encounters with human rights, and of the forms of world-making that underpin the stakes and struggles for rights and human rights around the globe. Through combining ethnographic investigations with political theory and philosophy, it goes beyond critiquing the Eurocentrism of global human rights, in order to document and examine the different political imaginaries, critical conceptual vocabularies, and gendered political struggles for rights and justice that animate subaltern mobilisations in 'most of the world'. Vernacular Rights Cultures demonstrates that these subaltern struggles call into being different and radical ideas of justice, politics and citizenship, and open up different possibilities and futures for human rights.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. An Introduction: Vernacular Rights Cultures in South Asia and Decolonizing Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e 2. Human Rights, Political Agency, and Refusing the Politics of Origins\u003cbr\u003e 3. Assembling a Feminist Historical Ontology of Haq in South Asia\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Political Imaginaries of Haq: 'Citizenship' and 'Truth'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Resisting Developmentalism and the Military: Haq as a Cosmological Idea and an Islamic Ideal\u003cbr\u003e 6. Conceptual Diversity, Feminist Historical Ontology and a Critical Reflexive Politics of Location: A Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political activism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political activism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20activism%20%5BJPW%5D%22\"\u003eJPW\u003c\/a\u003e], Human rights [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Human rights\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Human%20rights%20%5BJPVH%5D%22\"\u003eJPVH\u003c\/a\u003e], Central government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Central government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Central%20government%20%5BJPQ%5D%22\"\u003eJPQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e], Gender studies, gender groups [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Gender studies, gender groups\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Gender%20studies,%20gender%20groups%20%5BJFSJ%5D%22\"\u003eJFSJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001747231000,"sku":"9781108832625","price":61.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108832625i.jpg?v=1696727121","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/vernacular-rights-cultures-hardback-9781108832625","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}