Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2002
Keywords
Women's rights, Human rights, Academics and activists
Disciplines
Human Rights Law | Law and Gender
Abstract
This essay traces the relationship between activists and academics involved in the campaign for “women’s rights as human rights” as a case study of the relationship between different classes of what I call “knowledge professionals” self-consciously acting in a transnational domain. The puzzle that animates this essay is the following: how was it that at the very moment at which a critique of “rights” and a reimagination of rights as “rights talk” proved to be such fertile ground for academic scholarship did the same “rights” prove to be an equally fertile ground for activist networking and lobbying activities? The paper answers this question with respect to the work of self-reflexivity in creating a “virtual sociality of rights.”
Recommended Citation
Riles, Annelise, "Rights Inside Out: The Case of the Women's Human Rights Campaign" (2002). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 1035.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/1035
Publication Citation
Published in: Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 15, no. 2 (June 2002).