Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence

Klose, Fabian

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“…326 The emergency regulatory framework in Kenya facilitated the "lawful" confinement of Kikuyu subjects, and the bare violence of the system was translated into a language of euphemism, through the invention of nomenclature such as "dilution," "screening," and "the Mwea procedure." These techniques occurred in camps that represented the "spatialization of the colonial state of emergency," 327 and this architecture dehumanized detainee suspects, and it is, therefore, critical that the essential humanity of those affected is finally recognized. It is doubtful whether William Hague's "apology" achieves this "[o]n behalf of Her Majesty's Government, that we understand the pain and grievance felt by those who were involved in the events of the Emergency in Kenya.…”

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Legacies of British Colonial Violence: Viewing Kenyan Detention Camps through the Hanslope Disclosure

Duffy¹

2015

Law hist. rev.

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A number of works have recently been published that seek to re-narrate colonial histories, with a particular emphasis on the role of law in at once creating and marginalizing colonial subjects. 1 Focusing Q2 on mid-twentieth century detention camps in the British colony of Kenya, this article illuminates a colonial history that was deeply buried in a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) building for many years. As such, the analysis supports the revelatory work of David Anderson and Caroline Elkins, who highlighted the violence that underpinned British detention and interrogation practises in Kenya. 2 In particular, the article explores recently

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Legacies of British Colonial Violence: Viewing Kenyan Detention Camps through the Hanslope Disclosure

Duffy¹

2015

Law hist. rev.

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“…It is particularily problematic in this analysis because the discourse of HRCRT overlooks the power dynamics which, if not addressed, function as means for pacification and normalization of the status quo and the continuation of the Israeli settler‐colonial project. With such practices of epistemic violence where the detrimental outcome of such practices is spreading as well as internalizing beliefs of inferiority and confusion (Klose, 2013; Spivak, 1988), the concepts of identity, nationality, and citizenship have been negotiated throughout the contemporary history in the absence of a recognized state. Since Al‐Nakba 1948 at least, Palestinians have discursively developed their understanding of identity through their sense of belonging, which is inseparable, from the land, memory, and narratives (Kanaana, 2011).…”

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Towards a decolonial curriculum of human rights education in Palestine

Albhaisi

2021

Journal of Social Issues

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The politics of knowledge economy have long governed the process of spreading the United Nation's universal culture of human rights into diverse contexts. This article examines the strategies utilized in introducing and operationalizing the UN's normative discourse of human rights through integrating an ideological model of Human Rights Education in the Gaza Strip. This is through the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and its education provision services in Gaza. In particular, I apply an abridged version of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, from a discursive psychological viewpoint, to generate an understanding of identity construction within the wider context of the continuing Israeli settler‐colonial project in Palestine. The aim is to challenge the particular subject position of Palestinian learners as advocates for human rights, which they cannot claim through the UN's highly bureaucratic and standardized tools. In this context, a decolonial response is indispensable for addressing the role of the politics of knowledge production of human rights in regulating the learners’ subjectivities while ignoring the intricate geopolitical and historical factors that shape the learners’ identities. Therefore, the article contributes to decolonial research by examining the UNRWA as a modern and hegemonic institution that guards and delivers a decontextualized HRE curriculum in Gaza.

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“…One recent study has demonstrated the links between international human rights and the radicalisation of colonial violence in the wars of decolonisation in Africa after 1945. 23 These wars of decolonisation became the first major challenge and the testing ground for newly established international human rights norms. 'While the colonial powers tried to deny the universal character of human rights in the colonies in general and in times of colonial emergency, the anticolonial movement intentionally exploited reports about massive violations of basic rights such as forced resettlement, torture and summary killings to win the support of international public opinion.'…”

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Testing the Atlantic Charter: linking anticolonialism, self-determination and universal human rights

Ibhawoh

2014

The International Journal of Human Rights

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The historical link between anticolonialism and human rights has recently become a subject of wide-ranging scholarly debates. A growing number of human rights scholars argue that anticolonialism was not a human rights movement because it was concerned with popular liberation rather than curtailing state power over the individual. This article interrogates these and similar arguments by exploring how anticolonial activists in Africa invoked the Atlantic Charter in struggles for selfdetermination and deployed an emergent human rights lexicon to strengthen longstanding demands for independence. It queries the logic and historicity of delinking the discourse of self-determination within anticolonialism from the discourse of human rights in post-World War II internationalism. It argues that constructing anticolonialism and human rights as intersecting social and intellectual movements allows for a more nuanced and holistic history of human rights in the twentieth century.

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Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence

Cited by 103 publications

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Legacies of British Colonial Violence: Viewing Kenyan Detention Camps through the Hanslope Disclosure

Legacies of British Colonial Violence: Viewing Kenyan Detention Camps through the Hanslope Disclosure

Towards a decolonial curriculum of human rights education in Palestine

Testing the Atlantic Charter: linking anticolonialism, self-determination and universal human rights

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