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Property, Power and Human Rights

Lived Universalism In and Through the Margins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Through deconstructing the right to property, this incisive book critically assesses the claim that international human rights law is universal. Laura Dehaibi presents an innovative bottom-up and dialogical approach to human rights, drawing on lived experience in the margins to give rights a subversive and emancipatory meaning.Chapters analyse the sources of international human rights law, in particular examining the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and provide a thorough review of regional case law on the right to property. Dehaibi illustrates the inadequacy of the current liberal approach to human rights, showing that stories of belonging and human suffering matter greatly when interpreting and enforcing these rights. Ultimately, this book argues for a crucial realignment of the concept of universalism around social participation, contributing to a wider reconsideration of the sources of power in law.Property, Power and Human Rightswill be essential reading for students and scholars in human rights, social justice, property and international law. Taking a novel perspective on the interpretation and enforcement of human rights, it will also be invaluable for regional practitioners and activists seeking to strengthen human rights protections.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-23
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieElgar Studies in Human Rights
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035313907

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Contents:1 Introduction to Property, Power and Human Rights 2 Lived truths: A critical engagement with universalism 3 ‘The guardian of every other rights’: Challenging theliberal discourse of property in human rights law4 Drafting a human right to property: Conflated notions,deflated hopes5 What place for stories of property? Property in regionalhuman rights case law6 When stories matter: Challenging liberal orthodoxiesthrough the margins7 Property, access, and social participation8 Empowerment before entitlement: Revisiting lived universalismBibliography

‘In Property, Power and Human Rights, Laura Dehaibi disentangles the all-too-dominant Western liberal conception of property from a human right to property. In conceiving of property as a human right, Dehaibi provides a critical methodology formulated through insights from Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), critical legal theory, law & society, and a range of legal cases involving claimants in the Global South or marginalized populations in Europe. She offers a powerful argument for the necessity of a nuanced, contextualized approach to property, inclusive of social relations, political and power dimensions, and lived experiences with land, particularly for those on the edges of ownership. In other words, she gives her readers not just an alternative substantive understanding of property relations but rather an alternative method to conceive of property, one which dethrones the individualistic, capitalist and market-oriented one often found in jurisprudence and commentary in favor of a critical, grounded, and dialogical approach.’