Abstract
We use a case study of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil and the Via Campesina network of which they are part to develop the concept of ‘vernacular rights cultures’. Vernacular rights cultures calls attention to the way in which demands for the right to have rights call on particular cultures, histories and political contexts in a manner that can transform the rights inscribed in constitutions and political imaginaries. What Ranciere (1999) and Balibar (2002) call the democratization of democracy, we therefore argue, does not just involve a logic of equality and inclusion through which dispossessed groups demand already existing rights. Rather, it also occurs as mobilisations alter the means through which rights are delivered and transform the content and meaning of the rights demanded.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 605-619 |
Journal | Citizenship Studies |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 6-7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 25 Aug 2015 |
Bibliographical note
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Citizenship Studies on 25/08/2015, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13621025.2015.1053791Keywords
- human rights
- citizenship
- vernacular rights cultures
- Landless Workers Movement
- acts of citizenship
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Robin Dunford
- School of Humanities and Social Science - Principal Lecturer
- Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
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