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MC: André Keet: The Phantasmagoria (GCSC)

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Jul 03, 2019 from 10:00 to 02:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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Phil I, Building B, R.025

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+49 641 / 99-30 053

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Phantasmagorias

‘Double Critique’ and the Renewal of Human Rights

 
This master class focuses on the following argument:
 
1. Exploring the legitimation and discursive arrangement of inequality and rights violations through the prevailing discourses on human rights, democracy and transformative constitutionalism (HR&TC).
 
2. Prof. Keet's case example is post-1994 South Africa, focusing on the notions of HR&TC as idolatry that generate a fictitious narrative of inclusive socio-economic and cultural-political progress in the ‘aftermath’ of Apartheid, but he also extends the argument to the global human rights discourse.
 
3. This narrative produces a phantasmal ‘reality’ that streams human rights to function as ‘capital rights’ within human rights markets, whilst masquerading as a social justice project.
 
4. Consistent with Prof. Keet's overarching project on Critical Human Rights Education (CHRE), he suggests critique as a strategy to work against idolatry for human rights praxis to contribute to developing antidotes to the phantasmagoria.
 
5. He further proposes pragmatic options for ‘making and mixing such anti-poisons’ on the basis that we put the very constitutive and organising premises of human rights into question.

 

// Prof. André Keet (Mandela University, South Africa)

There will be a preparational meeting for the masterclass where we will discuss preparational readings for the course. This meeting is organized by the Research Area 8 and not obligatory for the participation in the master class. The date for the meeting will be announced soon. For more information please contact katrin.antweiler@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

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