Popular University of Social Movements (UPMS) World Social Forum (WSF) Tunis, March 2013 on Dignity | كرامة | Dignidad | आत्मसम्मान | Dignité | Dignità | Kuchikuy Kawsay | Wuerde | Dignidade ...
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Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
Notwithstanding the abstract universalism of human rights – which stems from disregarding the plurality of conceptions on human dignity- it became the language of progressive politics. Not even the cleavage between principles and practice which escorts human rights discourse challenged its hegemony during the last two decades. Facing this dilemma, we believe that to be of use for a progressive and emancipatory politics, human rights must unfold its Eurocentric profile to intercultural dialogues and encompass other grammars of human dignity. Focusing on four world regions (Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America) ALICE project will explore various conceptions of human dignity, comparing realities present across different regions and scales: local, national and regional.
Below, some contributions to expand the discussion.
Projects
Beyond Transitional Justice: on Pluralist Co-Existence ‘After’ Conflict; Lessons from The South Legal Discourses Within Contact Zones. A Study of The Struggles for Women Rights and Access to Land in Mozambique and South AfricaSpicing Life, Unpacking Struggles: Food Knowledges, Food Rights and The Possibilities of Counterhegemonic Intercultural TranslationDecolonising Europe. Human Rights and Other Grammars of Human Dignity from The Perspectives of The South Inside The NorthCan the Right to the City Be Emancipatory? Presences, Absences and Emergences in the Construction of the Right to the City in BrazilLand and The Social (and Micro) Movements in Contemporary India: Diverse Trajectories, Horizontal Relations and New Patterns of MobilizationWhat Counts as 'Women's Human Rights'? How Brazilian Black Women's and Feminist NGOs Mobilize International Human Rights LawSouthern Bodies in Northern Wars: Disability as Testimony of ViolenceAids and Modernity in Diffraction: Looking at an Epitome Disease from The South Within The Horizon of an ‘Ecology Of Knowledges’ in Health and a Subaltern Cosmopolitan BioethicsOther contributions
Alberto Gomes’s interview discussed at length how indigenous onto-epistemology can contribute to the quest for alternative epistemologies and visions for sustainable futures. In a dialogue with the epistemological project at the heart of ALICE project – the epistemologies of the south – Alberto Gomes advanced some lessons, especially emphasi...
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Original Title: Investigación-Acción 2.0: Un nuevo mapa para los investigadores-activistas en un mundo multimedia
César Rodríguez-Garavito
"Cátedra Boaventura de Sousa Santos de Ciências Sociais", Coimbra 11 Dec 2012.
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Video in Spanish. Short description:
In this interview, Nelson Maldonado-Torres presents his thoughts on: 1) the timeliness and relevance of the thought of Frantz Fanon to construct decolonial theories ; 2) emergences of this critical perspectives to reinvent other ways of thinking and knowledge to take the distanc...
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César Rodríguez Garavito documents the case of Sarayaku people in Ecuador where indigenous people rights were violated in favour of an Oil Company. Sarayaku Indigenous people brought this case in front of the Inter-American Court of human Rights which ruled in their favour and against the Ecuadorian state that vio...
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