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On the Coloniality of Human Rights
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The universality of human rights is delimited by what is considered to effectively constitute the state of being human in the first place. In addition to a secular-line that separated the divine from the human, the hegemonic modern Western concept of the human emerged in relation to an onto-Manichean colonial line that often makes human rights discourse inefficient for addressing modern colonialism, or complicit with it. For any decolonization of human rights to occur, there needs to be a decolonization of the concept of the human. Frantz Fanon’s prayer to his body in Black Skin, White Masks offers a basis for building a decolonial humanism and humanities that counter the coloniality of human rights and serve as propaedeutics for any effort to make human rights relevant for decolonization.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Maldonado-Torres, N.
- Affiliations
- Centro de Estudos Sociais (PT)
- Corresponding author
- Maldonado-Torres, Nelson
- Venue
- Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
- Publisher
- OpenEdition
- Published
- 2017
- Volume
- 114
- Pages
- 117-136
- ISSN
- 0254-1106 (ISSN-L)
- 2182-7435
- OpenAlex
- W2779540383
- Cited by
- 153
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 26.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Revista crítica de ciências sociais/Revista crítica de ciências sociais (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- OpenEdition (OpenEdition) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Latin American Cultural Politics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Keywords
- concept of the human, Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, coloniality, secularism, Western modernity, universality of human rights
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