Event overview
MFA Fine Art and MFA Curating Lecture, Autumn Term, Series Two - Conditions are Now in Transition: The Local, The Border
The last decades have witnessed critiques of human rights from many different vantage points. Critiques of the ostensible universality and transparency of the ‘human’ subject of rights; the differential value of human life that makes some lives more grievable than others (J. Butler 2009); the politics of humanitarian intervention; and the excision of socio-economic dimensions of life from dominant human rights norms. What are the limits of human rights, and how, at the same time, is the struggle for human rights an inescapable aspect of progressive social justice movements? This talk will explore a range of critiques of human rights law and also consider the way in which law (cast in the idiom of recognition) inevitably enters the political scene.
Bio: Brenna Bhandar is Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS. She is Co-Editor of Plastic Materialities: Legality, Politics and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (Duke 2015) and Reflections on Dispossession: Critical Feminisms (Forthcoming, Living Commons Press). She has published widely in the areas of critical legal theory, property law, and Indigenous rights.
Lecture will be held in the LG02 Stuart Hall Building on the Goldsmiths campus in New Cross, London. SE14 6NW.
Dates & times
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30 Nov 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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