On the Coloniality of Human Rights

Maldonado‐Torres, Nelson

doi:10.4000/rccs.6793

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“…This is reminiscent of colonial fixation on the black body – what Gqola (2008) terms “paradoxical hypervisibility” – the heightened focus on the physical and the external that is reminiscent of the “hyper-embodied” colonial “objectification” of the African body and the simultaneous invisibilisation of black lesbian subjectivities (p. 47). Thus, although the human rights discourse used in the South African Constitution and legislation speaks to sexual and gender diversity, the embedded power of coloniality continues to establish white heterosexuality as the colonial “original” against which “othered” sexualities and genders are performed and defined (Butler, 1990) within an ordered and hierarchical modern system (Maldonado-Torres, 2017). The lesbian and lesbian sexuality come to be constituted as the sexually deviant (postcolonial) other in post-apartheid South Africa through this awkward tension.…”

Section: Contexualising and Historicising Black Lesbian Citizenship Imentioning

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Black lesbian women in South Africa: Citizenship and the coloniality of power

Stephens

Boonzaier

2020

Feminism & Psychology

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Current conceptualisations of citizenship in South Africa are embedded in the egalitarian discourse of the Constitution, lauded for its recognition of historically marginalised groups, including sexually and gender diverse people. Within the paradox of progressive legal advancements and the legacy of colonialism and apartheid, we use a decolonial feminist lens to critically engage with the notion of citizenship for black lesbian women in contemporary South Africa. We adopt a social-psychological perspective of citizenship as an active practice, embedded within the dynamic intersections of historical, structural and discursive patterns of power-knowledge relations in everyday life. We draw from five focus group discussions that were part of a study that explored the intersections of identity, power and violence in the lives of black lesbian women in South Africa. Focusing on the enactments of citizenship in public spaces, we contend that black lesbian women’s lived experiences of citizenship point to the enduring manifestations of the coloniality of power, in which the centrality of race underpins the intersections of class, gender and sexuality. We conclude by arguing that current conceptualisations of full citizenship in contemporary South Africa require a reframing that recognises the coloniality of power and the heterogeneity of marginalised and invisibilised subjectivities.

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Section: Contexualising and Historicising Black Lesbian Citizenship Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Black lesbian women in South Africa: Citizenship and the coloniality of power

Stephens

Boonzaier

2020

Feminism & Psychology

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“…Framed within a modern/colonial world system (Quijano, 2000;Castro-Gómez & Grossfoguel, 2007;Maldonado-Torres, 2017), in which power, agency, and inequality are often overlooked by educational researchers, the Colombian ELT field is subjected to what Clausen & Osborne (2013) and Bourdieu (2000) call institutionalized cultural arbitraries, which implies the entrenching, standardization, and subtle imposition of elements of the cultural capital backed up by the hegemonic social sciences emerging from geopolitical territories that differ from ours (De Sousa, 2006). The national education policies, and bilingualism programs construct discourses and practices of disdain toward Colombian EFL teacher agency (Guerrero, 2010), at the same time, premises of citizenship and competitiveness (Dussel, 2005) have become the driving forces in shaping social groups' knowledge and identities.…”

Section: Colombian Indigenous English Language Teachers: From Epistemic Asymmetries In the Elt Field To Epistemic Disobediences And Epistmentioning

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Exploring the Grounds for the Study of the Identity of Indigenous English Language Teachers in Colombia

Arias-Cepeda

2020

GIST

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This article addresses the invisibilization of the existence of indigenous teachers in the Colombian ELT (English language teaching) field. Their existence, which is admittedly a phenomenon that lacks quantitative saliency, offers opportunities to reflect on the epistemological asymmetries that traditionally have linked the Colombian ELT field to an instrumental mainstream bilingualism, often ignoring the conditions of linguistic and cultural diversity in the country. Besides, there is an exploration of how the study of indigenous teachers’ identities might contribute to the re-signification of pedagogy; this paper elaborates on the idea that scholars in the Colombian ELT have already built some horizons of understanding between the ELT and the diversities and epistemic privileges of Colombian indigeneity. The article is part of an ongoing research on the identities of indigenous teachers in the Colombian ELT being carried out within the Interinstitutional Ph.D. in Education at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá

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“…While acknowledging the particular form of human rights that has become dominant, including in Aotearoa, we also see the potential for a decolonisation of rights narratives, through a disruption of Westernised hegemonic notions of human rights that are assumed to have universal application (Maldonado-Torres, 2017). We propose that only once tängata whenua rights for Mäori are realised can international human rights instruments be usefully applied (Mikaere, 2007(Mikaere, , 2011.…”

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Oranga mokopuna: A tāngata whenua rights-based approach to health and wellbeing

King¹,

Cormack²,

Kōpua³

2018

MAI Journal

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Rights-based approaches to health in Aotearoa New Zealand have increased in recent years. However, dominant Westernised conceptualisations of rights have been criticised for their ties to colonialism and individualistic focus. This paper presents Oranga Mokopuna as an alternative which disrupts Western notions of rights that are assumed to have universal application. Based in Te Ao Mäori, Oranga Mokopuna provides a conceptual frame of reference for the realisation of tängata whenua rights to health and wellbeing. Inherent tängata whenua rights derive from and are nurtured by whakapapa from beyond the origins of the universe, and are grounded in tikanga Mäori and affirmed by the two internationally recognised instruments he Wakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tïreni and te Tiriti o Waitangi. International human rights instruments such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples further develop and support tängata whenua rights. Our vision is for mokopuna to thrive and flourish as our rangatira of today, through the full realisation of their tängata whenua rights to health and wellbeing.

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On the Coloniality of Human Rights

Cited by 78 publications

References 22 publications

Black lesbian women in South Africa: Citizenship and the coloniality of power

Black lesbian women in South Africa: Citizenship and the coloniality of power

Exploring the Grounds for the Study of the Identity of Indigenous English Language Teachers in Colombia

Oranga mokopuna: A tāngata whenua rights-based approach to health and wellbeing

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