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One of the first readings, in English or French, of Edouard Glissant as an ethical theorist
Brings together Caribbean and Latin American ethics to provide a new concept of responsibility that addresses inequities rooted in colonial projects
Re-envisions contemporary human rights practice based on the duties entailed in the decolonial (third-generation) rights claims made by the dispossessed
Connects Glissant's claim of a 'right to opacity' to ethical bearings, and by doing so presents a path for human rights and decolonial movements to come together
What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded?
Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher douard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: 'You must choose your bearing'.
Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzald a and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present - an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility.
Contents
Introduction: Starting from Responsibility and Human Rights
Thesis and Chapter Outline
Chapter One: The Right to Opacity in Theory
Toward an Alternative Ethical Vocabulary
Alterity and Encounter Read in Context
Contacts, Relays, Opacities
The Right to Opacity and Human Rights
Chapter Two: The Right to Opacity in Practice
The Critical-Reformist Tension
Three Approaches to Human Rights
The Paradigmatic Approach
The Critical Approach
The Organizational Approach
The Three Approaches at Work and the Promises of Standing Rock
Chapter Three: Solidarity beyond Participation
Institutions and Imaginaries
Roots: Identity and Belonging
Relations: Solidarity, Anarchy, and Generosity
Root Identity and Relation Identity
Expansive Belonging
Chapter Four: The Feasibility of Ethical Pursuits
Feasibility
The Other of Thought
La Facultad
Deslenguada
Entanglements
Making Kin
Chapter Five: The Limits of Ethics and the Question of Political Commitment
Summary of Study
The Limits of Ethics
The Question of Political Commitment
W. E. B. Du Bois's Critique of Elite Human Rights Discourse
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