Download PDF by Karen Zivi: Making Rights Claims: A Practice of Democratic Citizenship

By Karen Zivi

whereas the Nineteen Sixties marked a rights revolution within the usa, the following a long time have witnessed a rights revolution world wide, a revolution that for lots of is an indication of the development of democracy. yet is the act of rights claiming a sort of political contestation that advances democracy? Rights language is ubiquitous in nationwide and overseas politics at the present time, but nagging suspicions stay concerning the compatibility among the perform of rights claiming and democratic politics. whereas critics argue that rights make stronger methods of considering and being that undermine democratic values and participatory practices, even champions fear that rights lack the legitimacy and universality essential to carry democratic aspirations to fruition.

Making Rights Claims presents a distinct entrée into those very important and well timed debates. instead of easily taking a facet for or opposed to rights claiming, the publication argues that figuring out and assessing the connection among rights and democracy calls for a brand new method of the examine of rights. Zivi combines insights from speech act idea with contemporary advancements in democratic and feminist idea to strengthen a thought of the performativity of rights claiming. If we comprehend rights claims as performative utterances and acts of persuasion, we come to determine that through announcing "I have a right," we represent and reconstitute ourselves as democratic voters, form our groups, and remodel constraining different types of identification in ways in which may well at the same time develop and problem points of democracy. additionally, we start to appreciate that rights claiming isn't a totally rule sure perform. to demonstrate her concept, Zivi discusses assorted facets of 2 fresh rights debates: vital HIV checking out of pregnant ladies and the recent immigration laws.

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