Who is the Subject of (Non) Human Rights?
Editors
Alvarez-Nakagawa, A
Douzinas, C
Publisher
ISBN-17
978 1 80220 851 1
Journal
Non-Human Rights. Critical Perspectives
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This chapter interrogates the concept of the subject of rights and questions whether Jacques Rancière’s work could be used to understand and mobilize the subjectification of non-humans in the context of a ‘pluralization of ontologies’ or ‘cosmopolitics’. Using a deconstructive and archaeological/genealogical method to investigate the categories of the ‘subject’ and the ‘person’, it contends that subjecthood has been indissociably associated with the human being and that any ascription of subjecthood and personhood to non-humans, risks reinstating the problems that this attribution attempts to sort out. The question one needs to ask is whether it is possible to think of a subject dissociated from its human form and the normative model humanity has imprinted on it.
Authors
Alvarez-Nakagawa, A; Alvarez Nakagawa, ACollections
- Department of Law [867]